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Million profit: German waitress won 170 million euros – News

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Why should a man who is happy change his life just because he has suddenly become rich?

In October 2018, the 48-year-old “serving daughter” (Swiss German for waitress) cleared the mega jackpot with a ticket for CHF 24.50. Now she spoke for the first time to a reporter from the newspaper “Blick” about her happiness – in the restaurant where she still serves.


“Oh, I go on living normally and I still work three days a week,” she says. “I’ve been here since 2001, it’s fun.” But she was “actually not a woman from Aargau, but a German”. Her husband is also German. They don’t have children – “two dogs for it”.

The couple still lives in a rented apartment. But: “We decided to build a nice house for ourselves.” The only luxury she afforded after the 170 million profit – a BMW for herself and one for her husband. Otherwise she “actually didn’t spend or distribute money”.

The waitress lives in the 2100-strong community of Leuggern in the canton of Aargau. She would also like to live there in the future, even if it would be sensible with her current assets to move to a lower-tax canton (e.g. Schwyz) like other multi-millionaires.

The waitress would like to remain anonymous, but has told regular guests in the restaurant about her luck. One says to the “Blick” reporter very dryly: “I’m still tipping her.”


Million profit: German waitress won 170 million euros


She cannot keep all of the CHF 184 million. In Switzerland, the state collects taxes heavily from winning the lottery. For example, 23.7 million went to the municipality of Leuggern alone.

That’s why all the villagers cheer: Because of the unexpected revenue of millions, the community assembly decided a few weeks ago to cut taxes by 10 percent this year!

This is how the EuroMillions lottery works

EuroMillions is a cooperation of national lotteries and has been played in ten European countries since 2004, including Austria and Switzerland. You win the jackpot with five correct main numbers between 1 and 50 and two star numbers between 1 and 12. The winning numbers are drawn in Paris every Tuesday and Friday. The maximum profit is 190 million euros.

In Germany you can only participate online or when you visit one of the participating countries. The prize must be redeemed in the country where the ticket was purchased. A single ticket costs EUR 2.50 in Austria and CHF 3.50 in Switzerland. By the way: next Tuesday there will be 100 million euros in the pot.



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