What the law does about this vertical specifically, not about gambling at large.
FR — THE LEGAL POSITIONFrance and
France and
the law.
Online casino in France is not authorised for anyone, licensed or not, per Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ). three operators listed here appear on its regulator's published list. The site itself may simply stop resolving, without warning and without your balance moving. Checked 2026-08-23.
Read the positionFR
01What the law
What the law
actually says.
Published by the authority, read 2026-08-23. This is a summary of a published position, not legal advice, and Solaspins is not a law firm — the link below is the page the summary was read from, so you can check it rather than take it.
Who says so. A legal claim with no author is not published on this site.
Casinos listed on Solaspins that a regulator here has published as blocked or unlawful.
The date a human read the source. Legal positions move; this one may have.
Online casino games are not authorised in France for anyone, licensed or not. The Autorité nationale des jeux authorises exactly four verticals online — lottery, sports betting, horse racing and poker — and its own FAQ states the exclusion in one sentence: « Les casinos en ligne et les paris sur le eSport ne sont pas autorisés en France. » There is no French licence a crypto casino could obtain, because the category does not exist in French law.
ANJ — Quels sont les jeux d'argent et paris autorisés en France ?
THE RULE THAT BINDS YOUNot the operator —
Not the operator —
you.
The site itself may simply stop resolving, without warning and without your balance moving.
France blocks at the network rather than at the account. A domain on the ANJ list is made unreachable from French connections by the internet providers, which does not close your account, does not return your balance and does not notify you — it removes the route to the cashier while the balance stays behind it. That is the practical risk here, and it is different in kind from a jurisdiction that fines an operator and leaves the site up.
ANJ — liste des sites ayant fait l'objet d'un blocage administratif
02What the state
What the state
actually does.
| Mechanism | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Licence required | An operator serving residents without a domestic licence is committing an offence, whatever it settles in. |
| ISP blocking | Internet providers must make listed domains unreachable, so the site can stop loading while your balance stays behind it. |
| Published blocklist | The list of blocked operators is public, which means a brand can be checked before a deposit rather than after one. |
| Court-ordered blocking | A court, not the regulator, orders the block — which is slower, harder to reverse, and a matter of public record. |
THE RESTRICTED-LIST CHECKOperators this
Operators this
regulator names.
Every row below is taken from a list the regulator itself publishes, not from an operator's description of where it accepts players. That direction matters: an operator's terms are a claim about itself, and a regulator's published list is a finding by somebody with the power to act on it.
| Operator | Domain as listed | Decided | What the listing means | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudbet | cloudbet.com | 2023-11-16 | On the ANJ's published administrative blocking list, together with www.cloudbet.com and cloudbet-casino.com. French internet providers are required to make the domain unreachable. | ANJ — blocage_sites_illegaux.csv |
| Duelbits | duelbits.com | 2023-11-30 | On the ANJ's published administrative blocking list, together with duelbits.fr, help.duelbits.com and news.duelbits.com — the subdomains as well as the front door. | ANJ — blocage_sites_illegaux.csv |
| Stake | stake.com | 2021-07-13 | Blocked by order of the president of the Paris judicial court, on the ANJ's application, rather than by the administrative route — which is why it is not a row in the CSV above. The order named stake.com and www.stake.com and was directed at the main French internet providers. | ANJ — blocage des sites cbet et stake à la demande de l'ANJ |
03What happens
What happens
at the cashier.
There is no French payment rail into an online casino, because there is no lawful French online casino to build one for. The ANJ's route is the network, not the bank: it obtains blocking orders and publishes them, so the failure a French reader meets is a site that will not load rather than a card that is declined. Crypto does not change that — a wallet transfer settles regardless of who is watching, but a cashier you cannot reach is a cashier you cannot withdraw from, and a self-custodied balance is no help at all when the balance is on the operator's side of the block.
WHY THIS PAGE EXISTSAnd why most
And why most
countries have none.
France is the only market on this site where the online casino category does not legally exist at all rather than being licensable, and the only one where the regulator publishes its blocking decisions as a machine-readable file — so three operators listed on Solaspins can be named here with the date each was blocked, two administratively and one by order of the Paris judicial court.
| # | What is true here and false elsewhere |
|---|---|
| 01 | no other jurisdiction here uses this exact combination of enforcement machinery (licensing-required, isp-dns-blocking, public-blocklist-register, court-ordered-blocking) |
| 02 | its regulator has published 3 of the operators this site lists as blocked or unlawful |
Solaspins publishes a country page only where at least one of those rows is true, and the build fails on a record where none of them is. That is why this site has 13 country pages rather than the 155 its keyword research lists: a page that is the same table with a swapped noun is a doorway page, and the honest number is the one the gate lets through.
04Where to check
Where to check
for yourself.
05Read more
Read more
about it.
A sportsbook is not a casino with fixtures.
This page explains what changes when you move from the casino tab to the sportsbook tab at the same operator — the margin, the settlement delay, the bonus arithmetic and the recourse position. It does not rank sportsbooks and publishes no odds, because Solaspins has read no sportsbook's terms and placed no bet.
Read the guide06Questions about
Questions about
France.
Is online casino legal in France?
Prohibited outright. Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ) is the authority for that, and the summary above links the page it was read from. Solaspins is not a law firm and this is not legal advice.
What does France actually do about offshore casinos?
Licence required, ISP blocking, Published blocklist, Court-ordered blocking. Each is explained in the enforcement table on this page, with what it means for you rather than for the operator.
Are any casinos listed on Solaspins blocked in France?
Yes — 3, each named on this page with the decision date and a link to the regulator's own published list.
Sources for this position, and its limits.
Every legal claim on this page was read from the source linked beside it, on 2026-08-23. Solaspins is not a law firm and none of this is legal advice. Legal positions move, sometimes quickly, and a page checked on one date is evidence about that date — if you are making a decision that matters, read the authority's own page rather than ours.