The claim

According to an eBay classified ad, you can buy Ukrainian license plates so that you can park anywhere and drive too fast without being punished.

Our conclusion

The ad is a fake and has never been seen on eBay, and the claims are also false.

A screenshot of an alleged eBay classified ad in which a Ukrainian license plate is being offered is circulating in relevant circles.
The description also states that you could safely ignore German traffic rules with the license plate. But this is pure incitement: the classified ad never existed and the claim is also false.

The fake classified ad

The screenshot of the classified ad can be found on all social networks, such as here on Facebook:

The fake classified ad on Facebook
The fake classified ad on Facebook

In what only appears to be an eBay classified ad, a Ukrainian license plate is offered, on the left is the Ukrainian coat of arms and the letters “UA”, the license plate shown is AK 1234 AB. The descriptive text below reads:

“You can and are allowed to park anywhere for free, you can drive as fast as you want, you won’t be penalized.”

Apparently the screenshot was also shared in Russian media, which says that there is now resentment in Germany against Ukrainians who can drive here as they want without being fined.

The ad never existed

T-Online asked eBay directly about the ad as it cannot be found online. A spokesman for eBay then clarified that the ad cannot be found in the system, not even as a deleted ad. If it is not an image manipulation, the ad was created but deleted after the screenshot was taken before it was even published.

The license plate shown also makes no sense: AK is the abbreviation for vehicles from Crimea, but since the Russian annexation in 2014, these license plates no longer exist.

The claim is false

As so often: The claim is clearly false, a Ukrainian license plate is not a license to ignore all traffic rules, but the claim is based on a grain of truth. In Lörrach , a man filmed how he received a parking ticket, but the owner of a car from Ukraine did not.

The city of Lörrach subsequently justified this by saying that violations by Ukrainian vehicle owners had been examined on a case-by-case basis and that a more accommodating regulation had been applied in the past four weeks. However, this does not apply if there is an acute danger to road traffic, for example if you park in front of a fire department entrance.

But just because this was a regulation in Lörrach, it does not mean that no traffic rules would now apply to Ukrainians nationwide. For example, there are a lot of tweets on Twitter that show the opposite: no consideration is given to whether the owner of a vehicle comes from Ukraine.

How accommodatingly we deal with illegal parking from Ukraine varies from place to place, but there is no regulation that would allow Ukrainians to park wildly or ignore speed limits.

Conclusion

The screenshot of the eBay classified ad is a fake and is used solely to incite hatred against Ukrainian refugees.

Source: t-online

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