一名法国男子控告政府没有阻止他访问网上赌博。该名男子患有严重的赌博成瘾症。他在指控法国政府时说，法国政府没有做好保护公民远离赌博的工作。他要为这起诉案支付100,000法郎，约合人民币133,000元。
目前该名男子的名字还没有被公布，但已经确定他是一名37岁的法国籍男子。在法国，政府允许人们自愿在赌博禁令名单上签字。名单上的任何人是禁止进入任何陆地赌场或网上赌博网站的。法国政府还设有专门的内政部负责跟踪和阻止赌博禁令名单人员的赌博行为，这其中包括阻止他们访问赌博网站。
该名男子的辩护律师表示，政府在他的当事人注册赌博禁令名单时犯了一个错误，政府记录下的是一个错误注册地址，这样的错误纵容了他的当事人继续赌博。
根据法国法律，在线赌场和其他互联网赌博网站都必须允许新玩家注册前查询赌博禁令名单列表。如果该名男子的注册地址是正确的，当他试图进入网上赌场时，网上赌场会禁止他的加入，不过，他们可能会以为他是与别人同名同姓的玩家，所以允许他访问赌博网站。当法新社对此事进行采访时，内政部并未对此案发表意见。
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Man Sues Government for Letting Him Gamble
A Frenchman is suing the government for not preventing him from gambling online. The man, who is an admitted gambling addict, says that the French government did not do its job in protecting him from online casinos and he is suing for €100,000 （$133,000）。
The man’s name has not been released, but he is identified as a 37-year-old man from Reims, France. In France, the government allows people to sign up on a voluntary ban list for gambling. Anyone who is on the list is supposed to be banned from playing at any land casino or online gambling website. The Interior Ministry is tasked with keeping track of the banned list and taking steps to keep players on there from gambling, which includes blocking them from gambling websites.
According to the man’s lawyer, when he registered for the opt-out list, the government made a mistake and registered him under the wrong address. According to his lawyer, that mistake “allowed him to continue playing.”
Under French law, online casinos and other Internet gambling sites must consult the banned list before allowing any new players to register. If the man was registered under the correct address, the online casinos would have known that he was banned when he tried to join and they would have turned him away. With the wrong address, though, they likely thought he was someone else with the same name and allowed him to access the site and gamble. The Interior Ministry has not commented on the case when asked by the AFP.
