Overview
- The festival commission sold 450 participations but only 400 were officially consigned, leaving 50 shares without valid décimos and roughly €4 million in unfunded prizes.
- Commission members have handed over their personal prizes and the organization’s décimos to cover about €2 million of the gap, according to the mayor.
- Authorities plan to deposit funds with the court so a judge can supervise payments and apply any proportional reduction if agreed.
- Legal experts say the hand‑vote agreement to accept a cut lacks binding force and warn the commission faces potential civil liability, while deliberate fraud appears unlikely without proof of intent.
- Villagers are divided as some reject any reduction and prepare complaints, and incomplete records of buyers and holdings complicate any fair distribution.