AFJEL President Nicolas Béraud called on the French authorities to do everything they can to stop the spread of illegal gambling in France and to balance the country’s regulatory framework to make legal operators’ offerings more attractive as he opened AFJEL’s annual general meeting in Paris yesterday.
Béraud, who is also chairman of Banijay Gaming following Betclic’s 65% majority stake in Germany’s leading bookmaker Tipico, was speaking as the French iGaming trade body published a study revealing that the number of French consumers playing on illegal sites had increased 35% to 5.4 million in the past two years, with casino dominating and eSports betting in unlicensed sites also rising fast.
