Man tries to fool police into thinking he's Boris Johnson with driving licence
![The fake Ukrainian document had a photo of Mr Johnson plus his correct birth date. (Image: politie_groningen_centrum/Instagram)](/upload/news/2023/05/02/46375.jpg)
A man arrested on suspicion of drink driving was posing as former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch police have revealed.
The fake Ukrainian document had a photo of Mr Johnson plus his correct birth date.
It was “issued” in 2019 and is valid until the end of the year 3000.
Police said on Instagram: “Unfortunately for this person, we did not fall for his forgery."
Thijs Damstra, police spokesman, said the discovery came after officers were called to the site of a crash shortly after midnight on Sunday, in which a car hit a pole near the Emma Bridge in the northern city of Groningen.
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The car was abandoned but officers were later told that the driver was standing nearby on the bridge.
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“The person could not identify himself and refused to undertake a breathalyser test. Inside, police found a fake driver's licence belonging to Boris Johnson,” Mr Damstra told news agency AFP.
The 35-year-old man, from the small town of Zuidhorn west of Groningen, was arrested and police searched his car.
Mr Damstra added: “As far as I'm aware, the real Mr Boris Johnson was not in the Netherlands at the time.”
A former Russia correspondent working for the Dutch public broadcaster NOS said such fake licences could be bought in tourist shops in Ukraine.
"I have [seen] them from [former German chancellor Angela] Merkel and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, among others," Kysia Hekster tweeted.
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