A Senegalese arrived in Spain aboard a makeshift boat won 400,000 euros to the Spanish Christmas lottery, Andalusia where he worked in greenhouses, announced Wednesday a local newspaper.
"I do not believe it if I told you I did not even have five euros" in hand, exclaimed Tuesday that Senegalese 35 years, Ngame, temporarily out of work, interviewed by the newspaper La voz Almeria, in the tourist and farming town of Roquetas de Mar.
A rain of EUR 140 million fell on this town of 92,000 inhabitants of the province of Almeria: the first prize of the Christmas Lottery must be allocated among the multitude of buyers of tickets of the winning series.
"I met the Senegalese in the store of the lottery, with his wife, he had in his hands his winning ticket" for 400,000 euros, told AFP journalist of La voz de Almeria, Noelia Lazaro, who signed article.
Ngame then explained that he had arrived eight years ago on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, aboard a makeshift boat with his wife and then win Almeria. "We were 65 people on board and it is thanks to the Spaniards that we are here, they had saved us when we were already in the water" after being shipwrecked, he assured.
Then his life was not easy, to string temporary jobs in greenhouses farm, until he was out of work.
"Roquetas is known as El Ejido, as the pantry of Europe, because by leaving the bulk of the vegetables consumed by Europeans," said on public television a deputy mayor, Juan Jose Rodriguez .
The jackpot will be "a blessing" for the city, said the elected because "unemployment rate has increased dramatically in recent years with the crisis, and reached 30%."
Roquetas de Mar is part of a vast market gardens in Europe, nicknamed the "sea of plastic" because tens of thousands of hectares of greenhouses agglomerate them out of sight.
Labor cheap, immigrants are turning this intensive agriculture, with extremely low production costs, their salary is even lower if they are illegal.
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