http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/world/student-spins-double-life-among-spanish-elite.html
By RAPHAEL MINDER
The New York Times
OCT. 21, 2014
MADRID — How is it that a baby-faced, 20-year-old university student
skates his way into the coronation celebration of the new king, passes
himself off as a government adviser to reportedly broker a lucrative
business deal, and avoids traffic jams by flashing a fake police light?
That is the question members of Spain’s security services are asking
themselves after the student, Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, was
arrested last week and quickly gained prominence as the country’s most
notorious gate-crasher.
The answer, disturbingly enough, is that he did it by falsifying police
and secret service documents and pretending to hold several government and
other official posts, Spain’s national police say.
The judge in charge of the case, Mercedes Pérez Barrios, was as
incredulous as many other Spaniards at the extent of Mr. Gómez Iglesias’s
double life. In her report, she wrote that she could “not understand how a
young person of 20, using only his word and apparently under his own
identity, could have access to conferences, places and events without his
behavior alarming anybody.”
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