
" Here are 362 thousand euro scratch tickets. And here are the coupons bought before 2002, ninety million lire, or another 45 thousand euros. Take it yourself, distribute it in the squares. Let the other players know what happens to those who chase the dream of winning that never comes. Stop in time and get help ". With these words Mario (not his fictitious name) handed over to the theater director Pietro Arrigoni 9 boxes full of scratch tickets stored all these years.
" Why did I keep them? To remind myself how much money I've thrown away over the years. Seeing my wages, my savings, converted into papers, I thought it might help me to leave. It was pointless. But I'm finally getting treatment ," added the 70-year-old, a resident of a municipality near Brescia.
However, those coupons were used by Arrigoni, Sara Rossi from the Gli Acrobati cooperative and other social associations, as part of an awareness project against gambling addiction.
Lini një Përgjigje