It was the biggest jackpot ever recorded in Europe.
And it was won on October 15th.
We now know that the lucky winner of the EuroMillions jackpot of 220 million euros is a woman and that she lives in Tahiti, in French Polynesia.
It manifested itself, explains this Friday morning the French of the games.
This is a young Polynesian who validated her EuroMillions game take by flash, on the occasion of the historic jackpot of 220 million euros.
She, who has always seen her grandfather play, was convinced that she would win one day, the statement added.
"I often said to my grandpa that the day I play in my turn, luck would smile on me", she confided during the payment of her XXL prize.
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Finally, it was on her first attempt that she won the biggest jackpot in FDJ history.
"I was waiting for the right moment to play and, that day, I had a hunch," she explains again, before adding: "Besides, before checking my game receipt after the draw, I felt like a shiver in my back ”.
"I often changed the place of the ticket: first under my bed, then in my clothes…"
The Tahitian still confides to have multiplied the hiding places for her winning bulletin before finally receiving her historic gain.
: "I often changed the place of the ticket: first under my bed, then in my clothes ... Finally, I was afraid of forgetting where I had put it", she says amused.
On the side of the FDJ, we are also obviously very satisfied to see this historic jackpot having been won by a Frenchwoman.
“Once again, I am delighted to see France win.
Luck has no territory, no borders.
We are delighted to have winners in mainland France and overseas, ”says Isabelle Cesari, head of the group's winning relations department.
To tame chance and overcome a probability of one in 139,838,160, the very lucky Tahitian checked the five correct numbers: 21, 26, 31, 34, 49, as well as the two stars 2 and 5 .
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The young woman therefore becomes the biggest winner of a lottery in France, with 20 million more than her predecessor.
This amount is even an absolute record on European soil.
The previous continental record, 210 million, went back to February 26, 2021 and had found a taker in Switzerland.