Foreigners queue at Tabanovce to pay fines, Toshkovski: “Safe City” forgives no one

Long lines of vehicles with foreign license plates formed today at the Tabanovce border crossing, where drivers are waiting to pay fines for traffic violations recorded by the “Safe City” system.

Minister of Internal Affairs Panche Toshkovski recently stated that no driver can evade the system when traveling on roads in Macedonia where cameras for speed monitoring have been installed. According to him, this applies both to vehicles with Macedonian license plates and to those with foreign plates.

Toshkovski emphasized that the law will be enforced without exception and that anyone who commits a traffic violation in Macedonia will be punished, regardless of their country of origin.

When the “Safe City” system began operating at the start of this year, authorities announced that vehicles with foreign license plates, even if found to have committed an offense, would not be stopped as they left the country. Instead, drivers would receive an official notice stating that they would not be allowed to enter Macedonia again without first paying the fine.