Car seized: gotta go to Germany

A foreign man with residence in Germany is now locked in Denmark, after the east Jutland Police seized his car, as he could not pay the fine for a longer series of offences.

on Thursday morning at. 8.45 discovered a few officers from the east Jutland Police a motorist who drove without a seat belt.

the Driver of the car turned out to be a 53-year-old Greek citizen who, in addition to the lack of a seat belt also could not produce a driver's license.

When the officers examined the car more closely, it appeared that the license plates, which sat on the car, was afmeldte.

- the number plate on the car was not his own. He explains that he found them in a trash can. We can't prove where he has them from, or they are stolen, says Jakob Christensen, press officer at east Jutland Police.

- in any case, is it illegal dealings with the lost and found to take the license plates, which is not one's own, from a trash can.

in Addition, the man was charged with non-registration of the car and the lack of compulsory insurance, why the total fine ran in the 6500 crowns.

Since he did not live in Denmark, should the man pay with the same.

He announced that he could not pay the fine, and therefore seized police car.

'The 53-year-old must now either pay the penalty or find an alternative way to get back to Germany,' writes the east Jutland Police.