Student Spins Double Life Among Spanish Elite

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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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