• tsonfeir@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.

    So you make them pay before leaving jail.

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      7 months ago

      Or provide collateral. And chuck them on a wanted list for the EU. If they ever return, they get detained and have to pay and sent home.

      I’m pretty sure dutch tourists will just get the fined forwarded to them through the CJIB (the Dutch fine collection authority). So fleeing the country does not help.

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          7 months ago

          And we talking people skipping out on paying fines they deserve.

          If it where up to me I’d allow the Guardian civil beat anyone in an inflated penis suit, untill the whole thing was flaccid and they could pour the occupant out through one of the airholes… but that’s just me.

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        7 months ago

        Looking it up, the fine is UP TO €300 in Barcelona. They could say “pay now, get 50% off, pay later and pay the full 300”

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          7 months ago

          Or vice versa… now is 300 of we have to collect in the uk via a collection agency it will be 450.

          I’ll bet plenty of collection agencies will collect that for 100 euro