Car Left at Berlin Airport Owes €200K in Parking Fees - Focus on Travel News

After a bureaucratic ping-pong game, an abandoned Golf that had been sitting in a parking space for over a year was towed from a parking lot at Berlin Airport. The owner will have to pay a parking fee of 200,000 euros, but the question is whether this will ever be repaid. The owner is unknown, and the license plates do not belong to this vehicle.

For almost a year, a grey VW has been parked in the short-term parking lot at BER airport in Berlin - with a hefty parking fee of 23 euros per hour, the fees have now totalled 200,000 euros. But the owner of the car cannot be found... A day in the short-term parking lot is very expensive: 552 euros in fees are due. A driver with a license plate from Hanover apparently didn't care: he parked his car there for a long time and has since disappeared…

A short-term parking space at the airport is, as the name suggests, intended for parking for a few minutes. Drivers can also park for longer, but then have to dig deep into their pockets. As is the case now at BER. There, a vehicle probably cost 200,000 euros. There is no sign of the owner.

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The parking ticket is now much more expensive than the car itself: an abandoned small car has been parked in front of the terminal at Berlin Airport for more than a year. There is no trace of the vehicle's owner.

For over a year, a grey VW Golf has been parked abandoned in the short-term parking lot at BER airport. The parking fees run into the hundreds of thousands.