Letting the chips fall
As roulette wheels spun and players began placing their bets at the lakeside Annecy casino in southeastern France, a plainclothes police inspector tapped the casino director on the shoulder. "A message has come from Paris, monsieur," he said. "Your establishment must close within two hours." Before the night was over, France's gambling police had arrested 14 croupiers and charged them with stealing $700,000 from the casino in the past year.
Annecy was the eleventh French casino to be raided and the seventh to be closed in the past two years. Police are seeking to halt a croupier crime...
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