It was not the real former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who was arrested.Bild: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
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Confused Peppa Pig speeches, wild Corona parties, expensive home renovations or party friends with too many part-time jobs: Boris Johnson’s list of offenses is long.
It was because of the former British Prime Minister’s long list of scandals that he was once nicknamed “Teflon Boris”. Because for a long time it seemed as if none of these missteps could stick with him in the long term.
But even Boris Johnson came to an end at some point: After around three years in office, he had to give up his seat to his successor Liz Truss in September 2022. In the meantime, however, she has given up her chair to Rishi Sunak after only about a month in office.
Now an accident under the influence of alcohol in the Netherlands is making international headlines. Starring: former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. At least indirectly.
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Groningen: Accident causes international excitement
Actually, on Sunday, just after midnight, a man was with a Auto just hit a post near the Emma Bridge in Groningen, the Netherlands. Up to here: unspectacular. The police was called, she started the operation.
However, when they arrived at the scene, the police officers found the car abandoned. According to the information they have, the person who caused the accident should be on the bridge, as reported in reports on the case.
There, officers met a 35-year-old man from a small town near Groningen. A police spokesman, Thijs Damstra, said, according to the “Guardian”: “The person could not identify themselves and refused to carry out an alcohol test.”
The driver was arrested and his vehicle searched. From that point on it got exciting.
Cause of the accident according to driver’s license Boris Johnson
Because when searching the car, the officers found a fake Ukrainian driver’s license. It wasn’t only valid until the year 3000 – it also sported the photograph of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, along with his name and date of birth, 19 June 1964.
Fake Boris Johnson sparks international excitement.Bild: instagram / police groningen center
The Groningen police published a photo of it on their Instagram channel.
There she went on to explain: “To the chagrin of this person, we didn’t fall for his forgery”. Police spokesman Damstra later added: “As far as I know, the real Mr Boris Johnson was not in the Netherlands at the time.”
According to the Dutch local TV station OOG, the driver of the car was probably drunk – that would have shown the police investigation. Accordingly, the fake driver’s license was confiscated. It is also unclear how the man got hold of the “document”.
