a retiree won 500 thousand euros with a scratch and the agent fled with the ticket

A unique case: an old woman won 500 thousand euros by playing a scratch card, but the seller escaped with the ticket of a large lottery company in Naples. Today he is wanted by the Italian police.

The fact arouses the surprise and social condemnation of the Neapolitans, who live in a country that cultivates lotteries like few others.

The woman, who plays the lotto almost every day, had bought a ticket at “Scratch and win”, which would be translated as “scratch and win”. The game is covered and you have to scratch with a coin or your fingernail to see it. In Italy he has millions of subscribers.

It is extremely difficult to win the first prize. But the old woman succeeded. To the surprise, he visited the shop he frequents in the Stella (Estrella) district, a large tobacco shop, to confirm that if he wins half a million, the maximum price.

A young employee checked the note with the optical reader then handed it to one of the traders, who thought for a moment and, after putting the coin in his pocket, he escaped by grabbing the helmet and going up the street towards his “motorino” with which he fled.

Police arrived immediately and the search for the man began. Many neighbors gathered around the tobacco shop. These things never happen in lotteries. The number was immediately blocked.

A woman clearly defined what happened. “He gave her a head shot“, a ‘blow to the head’, as we say a moment of absurd irrationality because the improvised thief will never be able to recover this ticket.

For the moment, the man does not appear.

Naples comments between amused and angry at the event. Every day there is street thefts, burglaries and many other crimes. But never like that. “These things are not done,” say the neighbors.

Companies that sell lotteries appreciate an armored prestige, among other things because the jackpots are paid directly by the official Italian body which manages these games.

In Argentina, many have inherited the passion for lotteries from Neapolitan immigrants. Until a few years ago, it could be heard on the radio in Buenos Aires a program that gave the keys to the “smorfia”, the Freudian interpretation of dreams. Dreaming of numbers was important for luck, and each number had its symbol. The most famous are 15 years old, the pretty girl; 47, dead and 48 he morto che spoke.

The funny thing is that the lottery He was not born in Naples but in Genoa, in 1617. But the soul of this game was what the Neapolitans always harbored.

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