El Gordo: the winners

[Jonathan Fairfield]

El Gordo: the winners

Residents of Roquetas de Mar in southern Spain celebrated on Wednesday as news emerged that all 1,600 winning tickets in this year’s El Gordo lottery were sold in the small city.

Each ticket is worth 400,000 euros.

Senegalese migrant Nguema Ngagne is one of the lucky winners.

“Here, I just have my wife, who has always been with me,” he told reporters. “And we’ve had it difficult.”

Ngagne, who is 35, said he had just lost his job as a vegetable picker and, before his win, he and his wife had less than 5 euros between them.

He left Senegal in 2007 on a boat with 65 others. He was rescued by a Spanish lifeboat and moved to Spain. Now he says he wants to bring the rest of his family to live with him.

The mass win is a huge boon for the Roquetas de Mar – unemployment in the Almeira region where it is located averages 31%.

El Gordo is the world’s richest lottery, and will hand out 2.2 billion euros this year in millions of prizes.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-24

[Chicog]

Does that not smack of something akin to a fix?

[klauskunkel]

all 1,600 winning tickets in this year’s El Gordo lottery were sold in the small city.

Lottery once a year, every single winner bought his ticket in the same city. 1,600 winning tickets at 400,000 EU = 640 Mio EU

It also says El Gordo will hand out 2.2 Billion EU, which is not 640 Mio, which has me confused since all winning tickets this year were sold in the same city...so who ran away with the missing 1.56 Billion EU?

Edited December 24, 2015 by klauskunkel

[Cats4ever]

Does that not smack of something akin to a fix?

Only to those unfortunate enough not to live in Roquetas de Mar