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Two thieves stole a man's credit card in France and used it to buy a lottery ticket, winning 500,000 euros. The victim of the theft asked them to split the prize with him.
On February 3, two homeless men sneaked into a car parked in the center of Toulouse, southwestern France, and took a backpack containing many credit cards and personal documents of Jean-David, 42 years old.
The victim reported the incident to the police and contacted his bank to block his credit card. He asked to check if the card had been swiped and was told that at 3 p.m. the same day, the thief had used the card to pay 52.5 euros (nearly $55) at a newsagent about 500 meters from where Jean-David had parked his car.
Hoping to recover his papers, Jean-David went to the store the next morning, told him about the theft and asked if they had surveillance cameras to identify the thief.
"I was hoping to at least get my papers back, but the vendor said he didn't find anything. He remembered two homeless men in their 30s and 40s coming into the store, buying cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets. He found them suspicious because they paid for one item with a card, then wanted to buy something else but the card wasn't accepted and they didn't know the password," he said.
After scratching off the card, the two discovered they had won the top prize of 500,000 euros ($523,000) and returned to the store to claim their prize. The store owner told them to contact Francaise des Jeux, the French national lottery company that produces the scratch-off tickets.
"The shop owner's wife said the two were so happy that they forgot to take five packs of cigarettes," said Jean-David.
The thieves have not yet come forward to claim their prize. Toulouse police say the lottery is freezing the prize pending an investigation. Jean-David has taken to the press, inviting the two thieves to contact his lawyer with the offer of splitting the prize.
Pierre Debuisson, Jean-David's lawyer, argued that the lottery company had an obligation to unfreeze the ticket if it could be presented. "They can't cancel the ticket just because it was purchased with a stolen credit card," he said. "The ticket holders don't need to worry: our proposal is simple: Without my client's money, they can't buy the ticket; without them, my client can't win. It makes sense to share the prize."
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