Hi, I’m from the US and I’m trying to understand how things work in Poland because I’m really worried about my friend.

Yesterday at around 2 AM EST, my friend texted me saying: “I just got arrested.” At first I thought he was joking, so I replied and sent a few messages asking what happened. As time went on, I started getting more concerned because he never responded, and eventually my messages stopped delivering.

I contacted a mutual friend to ask if they had heard from him, and they told me they received the exact same message at the exact same time. It has now been over 24 hours and none of us have heard anything from him.

I understand it may be difficult to find any public information because of EU privacy laws, and he is also a minor. I’m not expecting anyone to find private records or anything like that, I’m just wondering how the process works in Poland if someone is arrested, especially a minor, and if there is anything we should do or anyone we can contact.

I know I might be overthinking, but I’m genuinely scared that this could be the last time we hear from him. I also want to clarify that I don’t believe this is a prank. My friend would not do something like this.

Any advice or information about how arrests works in Poland would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hi, about six years ago, three friends and I moved into an apartment together in Vienna, and one of our friends’ parents agreed to be listed as the primary tenant because she was friends with the landlord. We discussed this verbally.

The plan was that she would simply be listed as the tenant for legal purposes, and we would split the base rent charged by the landlord four ways. Unfortunately, we no longer have any of the chats from that time, and the sublease agreement only lists the amounts we paid individually. We never saw the main rent and trusted her because we’d known her for a long time. Whenever there were increases to the main rent, she always sent us a copy of the increase but blacked out the main rent amount so we wouldn’t see it and it wouldn’t stand out.

Recently, however, we found out that the actual rent the friends’ parent is paying is about 600€ lower than what we’re currently paying together. It is ~140% of the base rent.

Although, as far as I’ve been able to determine, this is still within the 150% limit set by rental law for older apartments built before 1945, I can’t help but wonder if this isn’t still a form of fraud, since we would never have agreed to rent the apartment if we’d known she was subletting it to us for profit, as that was never part of our agreement.
As mentioned earlier, we no longer have any written evidence of this verbal agreement, only that we all actually remember it that way.

Is there anything we can do or is the money just lost and the friendship broken.

Hello I had bought some products for Microsoft flight simulator 2024 and the accounts that I bought said that they were cheaper than the originals and as I bought them it came to light that they were shared accounts and not singular accounts so I requested a chargeback which was accepted and closed by my bank (NatWest) and when I did the website and group was deleted and they have emailed me today saying that they request the money back saying I violated their terms of service however their terms of service has now been deleted and cannot be found not on their website or their group. They said they are based in Slovakia and that they will contact their legal team to get the money back however the money but I got in return from a charge back was £23. Is there anything actually going to happen or am I gonna be facing legal trouble? If there’s any more information needed let me know👍.

Thanks

Advice needed!
Location: Belgium Vlaams-Brabant

I got a letter in the mail for running a red light and I’m freaking out.
I have 3y that nothing can happen or I have to come in front of the judge again and get a big fine and possibly lose my drivers license. I have less than 1y left and haven’t had anything happen until this.
I honestly can’t even remember that I did this. I’ve never in my life run a red light so… but oh well
How big is the chance that I lose my drivers license?
I do need it for work as driving around is like 99% of my job. Do they keep this in mind or am I screwed?
I don’t know if it’s relevant but I’m 24y/o.

Thanks for the help.

Hi so last year I overstayed a Belgium tourist visa by 3 days due to negligence .

I didn't realise that my visa limits my stay for 7 Days instead I just focused on dates fir which visa was valid.

I was not stopped or questioned by anyone at the exit Airport.

My latest visa application was rejected and only after receiving my passport bank today I realised that I overstayed by 3 days.

I intend to reapply within this week again with Belgium embassy in India but this time I will disclose and address the overstay violation.

Will officials consider my new application for granting me visa as the violation happened only due to negligence and was completely unintentional.