[Natural News]: A young family from Melbourne, Australia, was fined $10,000 for crossing city borders to buy food and vitamins amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In an interview with Rebel News, the family — identified as Joshua Deen, his wife Ailes and their four children — said they’re struggling to pay the fine, which is almost impossible to do because of the pandemic.
The Deen family went out early this month to buy supplies. On their way home, Joshua stopped to buy food so their children could eat as they drove. Suddenly, Joshua said that a “COVID cop” pulled them over to ask what they were doing outside. The couple explained that they were simply running an errand, but they were told that they would both be fined a thousand dollars.
To their surprise, the fines they received in the mail amounted to $4,957 each. Ailes shared that her heart jumped, while Joshua lamented how heartless the authorities to add these fines to the family’s existing worries about the pandemic and how they can continue to put food on the table.
The police insist that the shocking fines were for breaching the regional border.
According to current laws on coronavirus restrictions in the region state, individuals can only leave the metropolitan area for a handful of reasons, which includes buying necessary goods.
But the fine was issued to the Deen family on Sept. 19, while Melbourne was in an even stricter lockdown. During this period, residents weren’t allowed to leave their homes except for permitted work, caregiving, exercise, or essential shopping. Crossing the border from the metropolitan area into regional Victoria was forbidden, while an additional five-kilometer travel limit was also enforced.
Joshua noted that they were so close to the regional border that they had no choice but to travel across it. On the day they were fined by the police, he was turning left when he was pulled over on the very road that leads to his street.
Even though there was an almost $5,000 fine for crossing the border, there were no clear indications of where the border was. Ailes could do nothing but say that no one can afford a ten thousand dollar fine, especially during the pandemic where countless workers have lost their jobs and businesses have had to close....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...