Actually, the 43-year-old Pakistani only wanted to take a German train from Hanover (D) to Cologne (D) on Friday morning. But then the man falls asleep and misses the exit. When he wakes up after just under three hours, the Swiss border guard is standing in front of him.
The encounter with the authorities is the man’s undoing. Because, as it turns out during the joint control of the German and Swiss border guards, an arrest warrant is pending against the man. The man had been wanted for over a year because of a final conviction of fraud.
Instead of being taken away in handcuffs and ending up in prison, he still pays the due fine of 600 euros on site, as the Federal Police Inspection Weil am Rhein (D) writes. Instead of going behind bars, he could take the next train back to Cologne. (zis)