Police officers from the Lower Silesian-Saxon Nysa group in Zgorzelec spotted a car with German registration plates while inspecting a car park at one of the local supermarkets. It turned out that the vehicle had been reported stolen. The theft was allegedly committed in Germany, 800 km from Zgorzelec.
The officers handling the case noticed that the information provided by the alleged victim did not entirely correspond with the findings of the Zgorzelec officers. Further painstaking and laborious work produced unexpected results. It emerged that no car theft had taken place and that everything had been invented by a 32-year-old German citizen who decided to fraudulently obtain money from the insurance company.
At first, the man denied ever having been in Poland. However, he was unable to explain how cameras outside one of the Zgorzelec supermarkets had recorded both his vehicle and… him.
The man travelled as much as 800 km to leave a car worth tens of thousands of złotys in Poland. He explained that after leaving the car, he boarded a train and returned to his hometown, where he reported the car stolen. He was counting on compensation money. The police thwarted his plans.