00:01A 58-year-old Parisian engineer is the proud owner of an original Picasso painting
00:07after entering a raffle with a 100 euro ticket.
00:10The charity raffle in Paris offers participants to win a work by Pablo Picasso
00:15for the price of a single ticket, all while raising funds for Alzheimer's research.
00:41A total of 120,000 tickets were sold at 100 euros each, raising 12 million euros.
00:49Of that total, 1 million euros will go to the Opera Gallery, which owns the painting,
00:54and the remaining funds will support medical research through the Alzheimer Research Foundation.
01:00The raffle went crazy, actually, because we sold all the tickets.
01:07This morning, before 10 o'clock Paris time, we were sold out.
01:12We had to shut down the site and we stopped selling because we had no more tickets.
01:19The organizers held the raffle twice before, once in 2013 and another in 2020.
01:26The two previous raffles had raised more than 10 million euros combined,
01:31funding cultural initiatives in Lebanon as well as water and hygiene programs in parts of Africa.
01:36Thank you very much for taking care.
01:37Thank you so much.
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