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Episode: Thieves used stolen card to buy $523,000 French lottery ticket, the victim wants to share jackpot
Description: Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros ($523,000). But they vanished before cashing in—and now they’re among France’s most famous fugitives.
The man whose card was stolen, identified in police documents as Jean-David E., is offering to split the cash with the lucky winners. He wants his wallet back, too.
The thieves, meanwhile, face the risk of arrest.
The state lottery operator La Française des Jeux, or FDJ, said that no one had submitted the ticket to cash out.
"A totally incredible story, very funny," Jean-David’s lawyer, Pierre Debuisson, told The...