Casino St. Gallen and a compulsive gambler make agreement

A regular player has sued the casino of St. Gallen in Switzerland, accusing them of not having protected him from playing, despite his known addiction.
The two sides have now come to find an extrajudicial agreement.
The man in question claims that the casino has continued to advertise games to him, even though it was obvious that he was suffering from compulsive gambling disorder, and secondly because access to casinos in both Austria and Germany was forbidden to him already.
As a result, he claimed €1.6 million in compensation from the casino.
During a court hearing in Feldkrich, Austria, on Thursday, April 3, the two parties signed an agreement with secret contents.
The player is 38 years old and has received various advertisings inviting him to visit the casino of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
The casino even reserved a private parking space for him.
The man received these aggressive marketing promotions likely because he had visited the casino nearly 250 times in one year.
In that time he spent between 4.3 and 5 million Swiss francs, or between 3.5 and 4 million euros.
According to his lawyer, the casino should have protected him from playing.
To satisfy his gambling addiction, the player had even conned his family out of almost €800,000.
In that case he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, a sentence that has not yet been executed.