Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla called on municipalities to express the prohibition in their regulations as this would help combat crime.
Mexico.- Amid the project of renewing 112 municipalities within the state of Michoacán, Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla announced that he is working with municipal presidents on signing the Public Security Agreement, but within this framework, they are being asked not only for coordination but also for a series of specific issues, such as modifying their commercial, industrial, and service regulations.
In his traditional weekly press conference held at Casa Michoacán, the governor stated that it is important for municipal authorities to establish in their regulations the explicit prohibition in their territories of mini casinos, slot machines, and betting machines which constitute another variant of the criminality operating in the state.
“It should be expressly prohibited under the regulatory authority of the municipalities to install, operate, market, or function mini casinos, slot machines, little betting games, or betting machines,” pointed out Ramírez Bedolla.
According to him, these types of spaces where the machines are installed are hotspots for crime as they generate violence in the homes where they are located and in many cases, these are installed by criminal groups to have a place to gather people, and promote the sale of illicit substances of all kinds. In previous months, several installation centers were detected where people were murdered, so both the state and municipal governments began working on the issue.
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In the State, numerous operations have been carried out to dismantle these illegal casinos in different municipalities. However, the governor understands that it is necessary to tackle the problem at its root.
The data comes from a study conducted by the University of Bristol in England.
United Kingdom.- On the first day of the Premier League, 6,500 advertisements related to gambling were recorded, which is approximately thirty messages per minute.
In total, the day included 29,000 advertisements and messages from betting houses, representing an increase of 165 percent compared to the previous season. This figure includes billboards, logos on shirts, and television advertisements.
In a specific match, like West Ham United against Aston Villa, the University of Bristol, which conducted the study, counted about 6,500 messages about gambling, also at a rate of about thirty per minute.
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Following the prohibition by some countries of advertising betting services, several clubs playing in the Champions League were forced to change sponsors and remove the logos from their uniforms.
Aston Villa, Stuttgart, and Dinamo Zagreb removed the logos of their betting sponsors from their shirts.
Given that Spanish legislation prohibits advertising betting operators, Stuttgart removed the Winamax logo during their match against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu,
Meanwhile, Aston Villa for their match against Young Boys in Bern, Switzerland, replaced the Betano logo with that of Acorns, a US financial entity.
