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Game of Life | 01/18/2022, InoSMI
InoSMI materials contain estimates exclusively of foreign media and do not reflect the position of the editors InoSMI
The probability of winning the jackpot in the Bingo machine is one in 2.5 million. The probability of dying in a car accident is much higher: one in 15,000. And making one probability lead to another is almost unthinkable. But what exactly is probability? An electrician from Frankfurt wins half a million euros at a casino in Wiesbaden.
After 19hours, he finds himself in his car on the A3 highway and rushes in the opposite direction at a speed of 160 kilometers.
The odds of winning the jackpot in the Bingo machine are one in 2.5 million. The probability of dying in a car accident is much higher: one in 15,000. And to make one probability lead to another is almost unthinkable. But what exactly is probability?
When Marko Sutalo (all names have been changed by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin) on November 4, 2011, at about 20:00, crosses the threshold of the casino in Wiesbadan, he has 1,000 euros with him, and with this amount he intends to try the fate again, which Lately, she’s clearly turned her back on him. He is an electrician by profession, his company has had almost no orders lately, and he cannot pay wages to his employees. In the afternoon, he was forced to sell his son’s car. For an Audi A4 with some engine problems, he received 2,000 euros.
In the evening he asks his son to take him to the casino.
He does not want to drive himself and knows that he will drink alcohol. Sutalo, 48, has visited this casino a total of 107 times since 2008, which will later be noted in the police report. He often won: once 130,000 euros, another time 48,000 euros.
In a bar he orders red wine, with the bartender he is on «you». In the room in front of him are one-armed bandits, poker machines called «Cash Express» or «Money Heat», all of them flashing brightly, like booths at folk festivals. The Wiesbaden Gaming House is a casino with a rich tradition in Germany and has two buildings: a kursaal with classical columns in front of the entrance and roulette tables inside, as well as an adjacent room with slot machines; black carpet on the floors, blue blinds on the windows. There is a sweet smell in the air, and golden signs of the Zodiac are painted on the ceiling.
As usual, Sutalo plays bingo machines, a kind of loto. He uses the keyboard to enter numbers that are displayed on the screen in the form of a cross.
He constantly selects the same numbers: 13, 14, 15 horizontally and 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64 and 74 vertically. At 1:35, his machine suddenly starts flashing, and at that moment Sutalo is playing another machine. Only a minute later, he notices a message appearing on the screen: “Congratulations! You have won the jackpot — €514,242.06.»
He slams his fist on the stool and yells, “Jackpot! Thank you, Lord!”, other visitors applauded. There comes a day that will make him rich, but will not be able to make him happy.
About five hours later, early morning in Zagreb, Croatia. Members of the Radozovic family step out of their black BMW 5 Series. They spent the holidays in their old homeland and now want to go back to Duisburg, where they have been living for 22 years. Ante Radozovic, 65, who owns an import-export company, and his 54-year-old wife, Marta, sit in front, and their 17-year-old son, Luka, sits in the back seat.
They have been on the road all Saturday, that is, more than 13 hours, and during this time they have traveled about 1,000 kilometers — until in the evening on the A3 motorway, shortly after Frankfurt, two beams of light suddenly appeared in the fast lane in front of them.
Radozovichi move at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, and the speed of a car rapidly rushing towards them is also 160 kilometers per hour. A collision is already inevitable.
Ante Radozovich was trapped in his car, and he dies at the scene of the accident. His wife Marta and his son Luca are injured and are taken to the nearest hospital.
From another car, from a silver VW Touareg, Marco Sutalo gets out through the passenger door, hitting the jackpot. But even before the arrival of the police, he is hiding from the scene. Helicopters equipped with thermal imagers are sent to search for him. Suspicion of the investigating authorities: murder. Investigators proceed from the fact that Sutalo deliberately turned around on the autobahn, and perhaps he had intentions to commit suicide. Over the following days, the newspapers call him the «killer on the car» (Geisterfahrer-Killer).
August 2012, nine months after the accident. Marko Sutalo is sitting in his lawyer’s office smoking his fifth cigarette in half an hour.
There are dark gray circles under his eyes. “I can’t sleep at night,” he says. The accident does not leave him alone. His weight has increased by 15 kilograms. If he cannot sleep at night, he goes to the refrigerator. And, of course, he constantly reproaches himself: “What have I done?”
Sutalo is a strong man, a skilled worker, which can be seen from his hands. He keeps the top three buttons of his shirt open, a golden cross gleaming around his neck. He was born in Sinj, Croatia, but speaks a Frankfurt dialect. “I have achieved everything in my life a long time ago,” he says, talking about himself. Marco Sutalo grew up in Frankfurt-Fechenheim (Frankfurt-Fechenheim), in a working-class area on the eastern outskirts of the city. His parents moved to Germany from Croatia when he was four years old. He attends an economic gymnasium, but drops out when his parents decide to divorce, and after that he starts his career as a simple laborer in an electrical installation company. He enjoys the job and soon becomes a project manager.
At 1994 Sutalo opens his own company. Things are going well, he receives millions of orders, at times he has 24 employees under his supervision. He works on the construction sites of Aldi, as well as the Federal Criminal Police Office and Lufthansa. “I was just an uneducated guy, but then I was able to get far,” he says, and within a short period of time you can again see in him the proud and confident person that he once was.
At some point the situation with work became more complicated. Customers made a mistake in the calculations or did not pay for the work done. Sutalo was forced to file for bankruptcy, and after that he created a new enterprise, but the situation as a whole became more complicated. First, he was forced to take out a loan of 40,000 euros. And then one night everything changed.
“After the jackpot, everything in the world immediately fell into place,” he says. — It’s impossible to get such an amount of endorphins. If someone told me to fly somewhere, then I would start fluttering.
”
He and his lawyer tried to reconstruct what happened during the 19 hours between the jackpot win and the car accident. Where was he at all? What kind of people did he meet during his trip, the length of which was 450 kilometers.
An hour after the win
An hour after receiving the win, that is, about half past three in the morning, Marco Sutalo leaves the casino in Wiesbaden with a check for 400,000 euros in his pocket. He was given 100,000 euros in cash, in 500 euro banknotes. The rest of the jackpot — 14,242 euros — he left as a tip to the casino staff. His wife and son have already joined him — he called them immediately after his win. He wants to celebrate this event with them now. And he intends to pay off all his debts.
First they go to Marko Sutalo’s mother in Frankfurt. Sutalo does not drive himself, he understands that he has consumed alcohol and will probably continue to do so. His son is driving. Sutalo’s parents always dreamed of a small house and a boat in Croatia.
And Marco Sutalo himself had the same dream. Now he no longer has to wait for its execution. He gives his mother 10,000 euros.
Then the Sutalo family goes to the «pavilion» — this is how Marco calls the stand-up establishment to his friend Doris. This is a small building with a cement façade in the Fechenheim district where he grew up. Here you can buy cigarettes, beer, as well as canned soups. A scarf hangs on the wall with the inscription «Football Club Offenbach — shit.» Marco Sutalo has known Doris for almost 30 years, he was in the same class as her husband and is a regular visitor to her establishment. They drink coffee and Marco pays off the debts of two of his closest employees who live nearby. In total, in recent months, debts have accumulated for more than 1,800 euros, and Sutalo himself had not been able to pay off before. Doris asks him where the money comes from, but he only smiles. It’s time for them to go. They first go to their home in Wiesbaden, where his wife and son go to bed.
But it is already eight o’clock in the morning, and therefore Marco Sutalo does not think about sleep.
He gets behind the wheel of his silver VW Touareg and heads for the French border town of Homburg. There, at one of the construction sites, he is joined by the two employees whose bills he paid in the morning at Doris’s. Now he wants to go further with them. He says to one of them: “Now everyone can lick my f…” at the construction site. They return to Frankfurt, stop at a gas station, buy beer and a bottle of vodka there. By noon, the Sutalos reappear at Doris’ bar. He continues to drink. Again vodka. He prefers to mix it with his Red Bull drink. To do this, he opens the jar, takes a sip from it, and then pours the contents from the Moskovskaya bottle into it. Around 13 o’clock he says goodbye to everyone. There are still seven hours left before the accident.
Marko Sutalo now wants to sort things out again. Or calm down, disconnect. Sometimes it’s the same thing for him, as he’s best at turning off when he gambles.
He heads to the casino with slot machines in Bad Homburg, and not far away, in Oberursel, lives a friend of his, to whom he owes 5,000 euros, and whom he wants to visit later. At the casino, he orders a couple of glasses of red wine, but only touches them lightly, as the waiter later says. It’s hard to believe, but he wins another 13,000 euros. In the bathroom, someone offers him cocaine. He doesn’t refuse. He feels invulnerable. He is still carried, although he has not slept for 35 hours.
At around 5 pm he appears at his friend’s and gives him instead of 5,000 euros 6,000 euros. Both drink, red wine again. In the toilet, Sutalo takes another small dose of cocaine. When he is about to head home, his friend advises him to call a taxi. But Sutalo only smiles in response: «I have an autopilot.»
His home in Wiesbaden is about 45 kilometers away, local road, but he knows the area well. However, before reaching the city, in some strange way he finds himself on the A3 highway and starts moving towards Cologne.
And then what happens is what one of the witnesses describes to the police: in the Niedernhausen area, the witness notices a car that blinks slowly in the right outer lane, but then suddenly moves to the left, turns around in the fast lane and, abruptly gaining speed, it begins to move in the opposite direction. With high beams on. Probably, Marco Sutalo is trying to correct his mistake and return to the local road again. He does not understand that he has lost his bearings and, having turned around, is moving on the autobahn in the opposite direction to the general movement. During the interrogation, he will later say: «I did not understand why the cars suddenly began to move towards me.» Sutalo tries to avoid the collision, but it’s too late. He collides head-on with a BMW 5 Series and then hits another car. In total, five cars are involved in this accident, six people are injured, Ante Radozovich dies. And Marco Sutalo, shaking himself, rises from the ground. However, he no longer remembers this, he assures.
Therefore, his flight is difficult to reconstruct. One of the witnesses will later report that at half past one in the night, when she was standing in a traffic jam formed due to an accident, she noticed a man with a backpack walking along the outer lane. There are no other witnesses to this, nor are there any CCTV footage. Was he in shock? Alcohol? Adrenalin? Or maybe Marco Sutalo did not want to come to terms with the fact that the most important day in his life ended in such a deplorable way? He will probably never be able to explain it again. In disaster medicine, there is the concept of anterograde amnesia, when the victim of an accident suffers from memory loss after an injury.
I may have caused the accident
His memories of the night of the accident do not begin until Sunday morning, when he woke up on the couch of one of his two employees in Frankfurt. He appeared around five o’clock in the morning, his colleague says. His knee-length trousers were torn and covered in dried mud.
He had pain in his upper body, and later doctors would say that he had a broken sternum, six ribs, and he also had a head injury. At that moment, Sutalo must have realized that something terrible had happened. He calls his lawyer, who looks up the news on the Internet and finds a message there about an accident caused by a car moving in the opposite direction along the A3 highway, and advises Sutalo to contact the police. At 11:35 a.m., he appears at the 7th police station of the Frankfurt-Fechenheim district and tells the officers on duty there: «Perhaps I caused the accident.»
He is taken first to the hospital and then to the prison. He spends seven weeks in a pre-trial detention center until he is allowed to go home, as prosecutors no longer believe that he committed a deliberate murder, but is treating the case as a negligent homicide. From the point of view of criminal law, this significantly changes the situation.
The question remains: how does he feel about the accident? How does he feel about the fact that he killed a man?
Hearing this question in his lawyer’s office, Marco Sutalo fidgets in his chair, lights another cigarette — this time it’s not a Marlboro, but a hand-rolled one.
“I learned about it in prison,” he says. “Usually I drive non-stop to Croatia, and probably the accident victim was going to do the same.”
Marco Sutalo still cannot understand what happened that evening on the A3 motorway, why his “autopilot” failed and why he then ran away. “I will be the first to say: such a person should be put behind bars. I was always ready to help people.”
Sutalo’s wife comes to the lawyer’s office, she wants to take him by car — after the accident, he voluntarily gave up his driving license. We agree with them to go to the casino in Wiesbaden, where it all began.
A white Audi A6 parked next to a law firm still smells like a new car. Sutalo recently bought it with the money he received by winning the jackpot. On the autobahn we drive past Frankfurt Airport, which points towards a huge business and hotel complex: “I also installed electronics there,” he says. He currently works for his 18-year-old son’s firm, who also does electrical work.
“I’m getting new orders right now,” says Marko Sutalo. — On the radio it sounds: «I’m quickly gaining, gaining, gaining speed.»
Just before Wiesbaden, he asks his wife to drive further along the A3 towards Niedernhausen — he wants to show where it all ended, but after a while he changes his mind, wipes his face with his hand, lights a cigarette, and his wife turns off the autobahn. For the rest of the time before Wiesbaden, he is silent. Later, his lawyer will say: «Marco has not yet calmed down, he is undergoing big changes.»
The man he killed is now in a grave in Croatia. Marta Radozovich buried her husband in his old homeland. Even a year later, she is not ready to talk about this accident. “I feel bad,” she admits. She almost never drives a car anymore, and when she sees a car approaching her, she panics. And she is hurt by the fact that Marco Sutalo has not yet contacted her — no letter, no apologies. And no money.
Marko Sutalo says: “I feel sorry for this family.
I have a feeling of guilt, and I want to ask for forgiveness, but I just do not find the right words for this. I don’t know how to address these people. And I’m afraid the widow won’t believe me.»
He wants to write a letter to her. Some day.
What about money?
Marco Sutalo shrugs. “There isn’t much left. I sanitized my son’s firm so that it could work normally again.”
Did he curse the money he received? “Naturally,” he says. “I often think that everything would be better without the jackpot.”
The trial against him is expected to start only in the summer of 2013. A female expert found him partially sane, which means: Sutalo probably did not understand what he was doing before the accident. He was too drunk and took too much cocaine that night, although the police, after his arrest the next day, found no alcohol in his blood — only cocaine.
Marco Sutalo visits the casino from time to time. As if he hopes that someday his luck will return to him.
Aldi opens its first checkoutless supermarket
Aldi opens its first checkoutless supermarket where people can shop without scanning.
A grocer operates a «trial» store in Greenwich, London, which allows shoppers to complete purchases and pay for purchases without going to the checkout.
Aldi Duty Free Shop
Instead, shoppers can download the Aldi Shop&Go app and will be automatically charged for their purchases when they leave the store.
Aldi’s new store follows similar steps taken by Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Amazon.
The supermarket’s new website will also allow shoppers to buy alcohol using facial age-testing technology to check if they look over 25 years old.
People who cannot or do not want to use this system can verify their age with an employee.
A series of high-tech cameras will track shoppers as they shop and then bill them when they leave.
Giles Hurley, chief executive of Aldi UK and Ireland, said he was «looking forward to customer reaction» to the trial, which he said used «the latest in retail technology».
Lewis Esparon, Greenwich store manager, added: “We’ve been preparing for this day for months now, so it’s going to be great to see how our customers react to the new technology.
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«For us, steps like this are always about improving the customer experience and the entire team looks forward to being around and ready to help make the experience as smooth as ever.»
Before launching the service, Aldi tested the format on employees.
Aldi is the UK’s fifth largest supermarket with over 950 stores and around 38,000 employees.
Amazon inspired the Seattle self-service phenomenon by opening its first checkout-free store in 2018.
Dubbed «the future of retail», Sainsbury’s opened its own checkoutless store later that year that allowed shoppers to scan items with their smartphone, put them directly into their bag and pay by phone.
Meanwhile, Tesco has made it possible for customers to pick up their groceries and walk straight to their High Holborn, London location using the Tesco.com app.
A combination of cameras and weight sensors detects what customers have bought and then they are charged for groceries directly through the supermarket app when they leave.
Retail expert Natalie Berg, founder of NBK Retail, said cashless sales «are only going to go up.»
«Retailers are competing to offer the most hassle-free in-store experience — in retail, ‘no touch’ has become the new normal,» she added.
«Amazon has been the catalyst for this trend, and the pandemic has really accelerated it.»
Ms. Berg said it is «interesting» that Aldi has taken this approach, as many discount supermarkets tend to «shun» anything that «increases costs for the business.»
However, Ms. Berg suggested that Aldi might see a checkoutless supermarket as a long-term opportunity to lower labor costs.
