– The police have no evidence
The Norwegian in his 30s who had his newly purchased Lamborghini confiscated in Denmark, believes the police are holding the luxury car without having proof of the rough driving.
HJØRRING / STAVANGER / KRISTIANSAND: – I feel very unfairly treated in the way the Danish police have handled this case, the man says got seized his newly purchased Lamborghini Huracán on the way to the Danish ferry in October.
He had paid the car for millions of Norwegian kroner for in Germany the same day, and the luxury car is still seized by the police in Denmark.
– I feel used to the police having to “advertise” the new traffic law in the media, he says.
An amendment to the law that goes on “crazy driving” from 31 March this year, allows the Danish police to seize cars that are involved in savage driving or other selected violations of the Traffic and Penal Code.
Danish police believe they have measured the Norwegian driving at a speed of 236 kilometers per hour at Hjørring in northern Denmark.
The man, who is in his early 30s, does not want to be named, but runs his own car workshop in Stavanger on a daily basis, in addition to importing luxury cars.
For the first time since the case became known in the Danish and Norwegian media, he tells about the experience and the time that has passed since his new car was seized in Denmark.
Stopped a stone’s throw from the Danish ferry
It was a civilian police car that stopped the Norwegian just “a stone’s throw” away from the ferry quay in Hirtshals.
According to the plan, he was only going to stop by the customs station to deliver some papers, before he had to board the boat to Kristiansand.
– They must have measured me at 19.02 and I was stopped 25 minutes later, he says.
The police officers said that the car had been observed by another patrol further south on the E 39 in Denmark. There it must have been measured at 236 kilometers per hour.
– I did not understand anything and of course refused for this. At the same time, I may have driven a little too fast – approximately 150-160 kilometers in time – elsewhere on the highway, he says.
The police officers in the civilian police car have not measured the Norwegian to drive fast as long as they were behind him in the kilometers before the ferry quay in Hirtshals.
When he was told that the police were to seize his car as a result of the suspicion of reckless driving, the man believed his own eyes.
– I was completely shocked and had to call and interrogate my lawyer in Norway. It ended up that the police officers had to drive me the short way up to the ferry, he says.
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On November 22, the man met in court in Hjørring where it was to be clarified whether the police could still seize the millionaire’s car for the Norwegian.
Together with his Danish lawyer, Thomas Friisgaard, the man was curious about the evidence of the Danish police.
– According to the lawyer, the continued police base the whole thing on the fact that two police officers must have thought it was a lot that was measured at 236 kilometers in time. Nevertheless, the court thought that there was reason to suspect the case, and the police were therefore allowed to keep the car until the next round in court, says the Norwegian and adds:
– The police believe, based on having put the taillight on the car, that I was driving at 236 kilometers per hour. They have no evidence, in our opinion.
Originally, the Norwegian was to meet again in court in Denmark on December 8 to get a ruling in the case.
Flights and hotels were booked, but then came the counter-message.
– It did not happen, and so far I have not got a new date, he says resignedly.
The incident has already become very costly for the Norwegian, who only wants clarification in the case.
If he is convicted, he risks that the car is auctioned off and that the money ends up in the Danish treasury. So far, around 500 cars have been seized as a result of the new law, but no one has been auctioned off in advance, according to Danish TV 2.
– The value of the car decreases with each passing day, and there is already talk of a lot of money, he says.
He also says that he and his lawyer will assess a lawsuit when the final answer in the case is available.
In the meantime, he is waiting for the case to go to court again.
North Jutland police have no opportunity to comment on the car owner’s experience of the case in more detail, but write in an email to Fædrelandsvennen that there is no doubt that the measurement showed 236 kilometers in time.
– The speed case is currently waiting to be framed by the court, writes communications adviser in the North Jutland police, Maria Odgaard.