Parking fine issued in Vilvoorde
Ali, a man in his sixties from Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, recently received a letter from parking company Indigo, which checks for illegal parking in Vilvoorde. On June 17, 2025, a parking attendant issued a fine of 20 euros for a car for which no parking ticket had been purchased.
Ali received a letter to pay, but saw the license plate GMG-262 in it. He hasn’t had that record since 2008. What’s more, he hasn’t even owned a car since.
“I thought it was a scam”
“I thought it was a scam. The letter contained the license plate number, but not the car model. I thought that was suspicious, so I threw the letter in the trash,” he told La Dernière Heure.
The sixty-year-old also threw the reminder, in which the amount to be paid had already increased by 15 euros, in the trash bin, because he thought the scammers were persistent.
Summons in the mail
Only when he received a summons in the mail did Ali realize it was serious. He was supposed to appear before the justice of the peace in Vilvoorde on January 15, but the case was postponed because the judge was ill that day.
Ali thinks that someone is using a fake license plate with the license plate GMG-262, or that the parking attendant may have forgotten to enter the 1 or 2 as the starting number of the plate.
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Will the justice of the peace waive 452.29 euros, bailiff costs and court costs?
Next Monday the man will have to go to Vilvoorde again and the case will be heard. He hopes that the justice of the peace will decide that he does not have to pay the amount of 452.29 euros, the bailiff’s costs and the court costs.
