Greece Bans Electronic Gaming

According to this news.com article, the Greek government has banned all electronic and computer gaming of any kind, ostensibly as part of a law to outlaw gambing machines.

Not only does this mean that tourists risk heavy fines and even imprisonment for playing something as innocuous as a gameboy, presumably this makes it illegal to play in any PBeMs or message games from Greece.

I don't know the background to this law, or much about Greek politics, but it seems to me that any politicians who could pass a law like this without any kind of public consultation is either too stupid or too evil to be allowed to remain in public office. Was this law passed as a result of some hysterical moral panic led by the Greek equivalent of the Daily Mail?

It may be that this law will eventually be struck down by the European Court of Human rights.