Casino Manager Admits Rigging Roulette Wheel At Paris Casino

The Paris Casino’s operations manager has been convicted of rigging a roulette game at his place of work in order to let a female friend win on the numbers on which she placed bets.
On January 30th at around 11pm, Pierre Coulon, 61, apparently used a laptop to manipulate the electronic roulette wheel at Paris Casino, thus allowing his accomplice to win £500. However, staff working at the Blackpool, UK, casino became suspicious that cheating was taking place after noticing cameras which should have been targeted on that area had been moved.
Following a court case in which the Blackpool Magistrates Court handed  the Frenchman 60 hours community service and ordered him to pay £500 compensation to the casino, in addition to a £60 victims’ surcharge, Pierre Coulon commented: “I am embarrassed. Anyone who knows me knows that this is very much out of character.”
Pierre Coulon has worked in the casino industry for more than 40 years, and in 2011 actually bought the Paris Casino, along with his business partner John Rees. Mr Coulon’s defence lawyer Allan Cobain, then explained that around the time of the purchase Coulon was hit by a bus along Blackpool’s Promenade and subsequently had to spend weeks in hospital suffering from a back injury.
Mr Cobain, further elaborated that his client resented decisions his business partner made while he was still recuperating in Lourdes, France, and that adding to his client “cracking up” was also the fact he was trying to cope with a number of his family members being seriously ill, as well as a recent failed marriage.
Defence lawyer Allan Cobain further added: “He is a broken man, his career in the casino business has gone completely. He has now lost his licence with the gaming board.”