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“We decided to follow the path of a blanket ban on slot machines throughout the city because we set ourselves the goal of reducing the most dangerous forms of gambling, which include playing slot machines. Various statistics show that limiting the availability of gambling has a significant positive impact in the area of negative social phenomena such as pathological gambling on non-payment.” Hana Kordová Marvanová, City Councillor
(€15.1m) of this came from electronic gaming machines.
City Councillor Hana Kordová Marvanová has been key in implementing the ban saying the aim is to reduce the “most dangerous forms of gambling” in the city.
She said at the time: “In Prague we decided to follow the path of a blanket ban on slot machines throughout the city because we set ourselves the goal of reducing the most dangerous forms of gambling, which include playing slot machines. Various statistics show that limiting the availability of gambling has a significant positive impact in the area of negative social phenomena such as pathological gambling on non payment.”
Te Gambling Act permits each of the municipalities the decision to permit or restrict certain gaming operations or certain types of gaming in their territories in the form of local ordinances. Some ban arcades but permit casinos, whilst other permit arcades but not bingo.
Several other cities outside of Prague have already implemented similar slot gambling bans such as in the city of Brno where gaming machines are banned. Prague 7 for example also closed its last gambling site in November 2019 complying with a zero tolerance policy against gambling enforced by a 2015 decree.
Pavel added: “We do agree with gaming regulation but according to clear and precisely defined rules within the certain time frame. We do not feel that the total ban will solve anything. We can clearly see the situation for example of another large city, Brno, where gambling has not legally existed for the past five years, but there are hundreds of thousands of machines which are operated illegally and are absolutely out of control and nobody is able to solve this situation and find a real solution.”
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