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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
07/11/2014 at 11:35am
Location: West - North Yorkshire
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Similarly with us in Italy more than twenty years ago - when we were fined the equivalent amount of the original poster in this thread (rising as new 'offences' were added after we failed to cough up the small amount originally insisted upon) - and that was a huge amount back then!. The two Italian policemen had guns, too, and 'insisted' we pay in cash! We had no choice, no courts to fall back on, or changes of passport, or any other 'get-out' clause. We were literally taken to the bank, and had to change all our travellers' cheques. Fortunately we were on our way out of Italy at the time, going back into France, and we have friends who live near St Tropez so they were able to help us out with a loan to cover the rest of our holiday.
Complaints to the Chief of Police (or equivalent) in the town of Ovida in Italy, and our 'Consul' in Italy fell upon deaf ears, too!
I have related this story in several previous posts, too, as a warning that 'you just can't argue with the police'.
So, I personally have little sympathy for the OP.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
07/11/2014 at 5:51pm
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Quote: Originally posted by sue.too on 07/11/2014
A few years ago we ended up on a motorway in Austria by mistake. It really, really, really was a mistake as we mixed up the green and blue direction signs.
We didn't have a vignette as never intended to be on a motorway and received a HUGE euro fine for a 10 min motorway stretch.
We did try to query it and pleaded innocence.
Thing was the Austrian policeman had a HUGE gun. No arguing there then. 
Exactly the same thing happened to us in Austria, we were on the motorway before we could do anything about it and before getting chance to buy a vignette. By then I was frantic and desperate to get off it again, I was so worried. We exited the motorway at the next junction and went straight to a garage to get a vignette.
Unlike you we didn't get fined, but I can't tell you how worried I was, the relief to get off and to that garage!
I really sympathise with you, it seems a harsh fine for a genuine mistake, but like you, if that had happened to us, I would have paid too in that situation.
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