For having left his car parked for too long in the parking lot of an airport, a driver risks a particularly salty fine.
Who has already left his car in the parking lot of an airport, if only a few hours, knows how exorbitant the prices are. In Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, the largest airport in France, you must already pay 3 euros to park your vehicle between 10 and 15 minutes. Beyond that you have to add 2 euros per quarter of an hour. Of course, there are plans for travelers who want to leave their vehicle longer, but do not expect to get out for less than 30 or 40 euros per day. When possible, going to the airport by public transport is a much more economical solution, even if it is less comfortable.
This is undoubtedly what this German motorist should have done whose car was spotted at Berlin-Brandeburg airport. For a reason still unknown, a gray golf course, registered in the Hanover region, has hidden in front of the German capital airport for more than a year! According to the Berliner Zeitungmany prospectuses have piled up under the front wiper of the vehicle, parked in the outdoor parking in departures, and the windshield is cracked as if a malicious person had wanted to break it.
While the view of the “abandoned” Volkswagen has become familiar to the airport agents, no procedure has yet been opened to remove it. This would undoubtedly have cost its owner cheaper. Because the counter continues to turn and the amount to be paid has become astronomical. As it was left at the drop-off, only the first ten minutes of parking were free. Then, after checking the prices in force, you have to pay 23 euros per hour. It takes 552 euros for a whole day. According to the German media, the driver owes more than 200,000 euros to have parked in this paying car park for more than a year.
The company managing the parking lot of Berlin airport, Apcoa Deutschland GmbH, is aware of this case. But according to an external public relations consultant who wished to keep anonymity, “the possibility of recovering the parking costs due in this context depends on the possibility of identifying the debtor and the availability of the necessary financial resources.” Suffice to say that the owner of the Golf has every interest in making a cross on his vehicle, if he was one day recovering it. Meanwhile, the airport parking lot parking continues to turn …