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  The fake driving licence in the name of Boris Johnson
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  The fake driving licence was claimed to be valid until the end of the
  year 3000. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
  The fake driving licence was claimed to be valid until the end of the
  year 3000. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
  [98]Netherlands

Dutch police arrest fake ‘Boris Johnson’ for suspected drink-driving

  Ukrainian man’s licence had picture of former UK PM and correct
  birthdate – but officers did not fall for it


  Agence France-Presse in The Hague
  Mon 1 May 2023 11.07 EDTFirst published on Mon 1 May 2023 11.01 EDT
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  Dutch police who arrested a man in connection with a drink-driving
  incident were surprised to find that the name on his driving licence
  was Boris Johnson.

  The Ukrainian driver’s fake licence, complete with the former British
  prime minister’s picture and correct birthdate, was purportedly issued
  in 2019 and valid until the end of the year 3000.

  A police spokesperson, Thijs Damstra, said officers investigated an
  incident shortly after midnight on Sunday when a car crashed into a
  pole near the Emma Bridge in the northern city of Groningen. The car
  was abandoned but police were later told that the driver was standing
  on the bridge.

  “The person could not identify himself and refused to undertake a
  breathalyser test,” Damstra said on Monday. The 35-year-old man, from
  the small town of Zuidhorn, west of Groningen, was arrested and police
  searched the car. “Inside, police found a fake driver’s licence
  belonging to Boris Johnson,” Damstra said.

  Groningen police said on their Instagram account: “Unfortunately for
  this person, we did not fall for his forgery.”

  Police could not say where the forged document was made, but Kysia
  Hekster, a former Russia correspondent for the public broadcaster NOS,
  said in a tweet published by the NOS that fake driving licences could
  easily be bought in tourist shops in [99]Ukraine.

  Damstra added: “As far as I’m aware, the real Mr Boris Johnson was not
  in the [100]Netherlands at the time.”
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