“He’s not a rich person”

He wins 500 thousand euros to the Scratch and win and calls the tobacconist from whom he bought the ticket to ask him to keep the winning coupon: it happened to Conselve, in the Padua area. The owner of the shop who sold it, Sebastiano Antico, made it known that this is a win never recorded before in his bookshop. “Ours is a lucky tobacconist,” she said Corriere della Sera – in the sense that important winnings have often been recorded, even several times a year. I’m not saying that 10 thousand or 20 thousand euros are the rule, but it has happened several times; 500 thousand euros, however, had never happened.”

Antico, however, maintained a certain confidentiality about the lucky man’s name: “I don’t even say it under torture, because I made a promise to this person. I don’t even tell her if it’s a man or a woman, because out of respect for her I don’t I don’t want to give even a hint. This person is certainly not naive, I have always considered him very intelligent, but when he called me to ask for a meeting I really didn’t know what to expect”. Then he continued with the story: “He showed me the ticket, he told me if it was really as he had understood, that is, that he had won 500 thousand euros. I checked twice and saw that it was exactly as he said. We rejoiced , he she he’s not even an avid gamer. Every now and then he gets some tickets, but it almost seems like a pastime. Luck kissed her.”

The fact that he was chosen by the winner to keep the scratch card worth 500 thousand euros moved the tobacconist: “I am truly honored by the trust he has shown in me and my wife Katia. The nice thing is that this person trusted of us, they even went so far as to give us the ATM pin, but we had never gone so far as to do that. She asked me what to do in these cases and I explained the correct procedures to her: either you go there personally in Rome at the IGT Lottery headquarters, or at a Banca Intesa office, where they send the coupon after registering it”. Finally, he commented: “The thing that makes me happy is that he’s not a rich person, He’s quite old and I think he’ll definitely be able to make good use of it.”