Losing your ID card is not only an inconvenience, it could bring you many more problems. Take the case of Mar who had had her handbag stolen.

She thought that the thieves would only be interested in her purse and that the bag with its other contents would just be ditched, but she was wrong.

Later on Mar Barrera discovered to her bewilderment that she now officially lived at an address that she had never heard of… and that she was legally married to a man who was a complete stranger and with a 7,200 fine imposed by Hacienda who thought that she had arranged a marriage of convenience for her financial benefit!

Mar Barrera is a 21-year-old woman who is half Malagueña and half Catalana; she had spent the first years of her life in Fuengirola and returns each summer since moving to Cataluña

It all began on the 1st of April, 2023 (Yes, April Fools’ Day) when she was in Barcelona, celebrating a birthday with a friend. During a moment of distraction, the bag that she on her table in a bar disappeared… She reported the theft to the police. She had 70 euros in it and she knew that she wouldn’t get them back, but she had to report it stolen in order to get a new ID card. After that, she forgot all about the loss.

In October, that same years she went to the Town Hall in her home town to sort some things out for her grandmother. This was when she discovered that somebody had changed her official residence. That day she went straight to the police again and reported it.

Then thinking that this would be then end of it, she forgot about until the 12th of this month when she received an official letter from Hacienda telling her that she had been fined 7,200 euros for participating in an arranged marriage (to give an Arab man grounds for Spanish nationality).

Gobsmacked, she consulted with lawyers and reported it yet again to the police; her third denuncia! Whoever had done this had had to take the ID to a Notary or Civil Registry to obtain a birth certificate and god knows how many other administrations and yet nobody had questioned the ID being used!

She went to Hacienda armed with the three denuncias yet they told her that they could not stop the process and that she would have to pay it and then reclaim it (Don’t you just love bureaucrats). She told them, “No way!”

Well, she is sorting it all out, slowly but surely and she thanks her lucky stars that she bothered to report the theft of her handbag in the first place, otherwise she would not have a leg to stand on.

(News: Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia – Source: SUR)

Keywords: Stolen ID Card, Change of Residence, Marriage of Convenience, Denuncia, Hacienda, Fine

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