Originally Posted by
ralfkrippner
I've personally seen this happen in AMS and ZRH immigration. In AMS they seem to have a desk within the immigrations office where you can pay by credit card. Not sure what happened in ZRH at the two occasions I saw this happening in or next to my immigrations line.
It is probably not really a "taken into custody" situation, but it seemed to me that they only let the person through immigrations after he has paid his fine.
That sounds very very strange. Entry points into the EU check your details against the SIS, which shows the immigration oficer if you have been flagged for anything, but traffic violations that are just monetary is not part of that. Also it would be weird for CH authorities collecting German traffic fines?