Of him or her, we do not know much.
Except that he - or she - is very lucky.
A resident of Pas-de-Calais, or a lucky person passing through this department and one of his game points from the Française des jeux (FDJ), has just won the EuroMillions jackpot of… 160 million on Friday evening. euros.
The winning combination was as follows: 2.11, 37, 45, 47, as well as 2 and 3 in complementary numbers.
This is the seventh biggest win in the history of La Française des jeux!
The record remains a prize pool of 220 million euros, won on October 15, 2020 by a resident of Polynesia.
La Française des jeux did not give any other information on the winner, whom she did not know yet, this Friday evening, if he had already come forward with his services.
Anyway, the lucky ones prefer to lead a completely secret life when they get the loot.
During a workshop organized in July by the company and dedicated to the financial support of "big winners", which we were able to attend, most of the winners of large sums - more than one million euros - in the Loto or at the EuroMillions had explained that they had not even spoken of their win to their relatives, not even their children.
“If one kid knows it, everyone will know it.
I'm afraid that we stigmatize them, that we annoy them.
Fear of kidnapping, too”, explained for example Élise, a mother,
lucky winner of 2 million euros at the games.
Her husband Renaud, he put forward "a question of values", refusing that his children "play at the new rich".
If not already done so, the winner now has 60 days to claim their winnings.
Otherwise, these 160 million euros will be part of the sums returned to the State by the Française des jeux.
Indeed, each year, if it recovers several million euros not claimed by those who have guessed the right combination, it pays above all the most important part to the Public Treasury.
Thus, between 2020 and 2022, no less than 10 million euros, "rank one" jackpots - that is to say in the event that Loto and EuroMillions players have had all the correct numbers in the first shot — mainly from the Loto, EuroMillions and My Million games, were thus reinjected into various jackpots for FDJ games.
But for all other unclaimed winnings, i.e. at rank 2 and beyond, the big winner is therefore the state.
A rule in force since the Pacte law of 2019. Sums far from trivial for public finances: in 2020, 70 million euros were paid into the general budget of the State, then more than double in 2021, i.e. 150.2 million euros…
