A man from El Altet near Alicante has the same name as a man who is wanted by the police.This man has now been detained by the police on two occasions and has never received an official apology.

The first time it happened was when he needed to have his national identity card replaced.When they checked his name it registered as someone who was wanted by the police and he was detained in the offices for over two hours until it was proven that he was not this man.

He thought that the matter had been cleared up and it went to the back of his mind until last week while on a walking holiday with his family in Castalla he was arrested by the Guardia Civil and because it was the weekend and his identity could not be verified because all of the offices were closed( where are the databases on police computers?)he was kept in custody for 48 hours.

During his two day stay in prison he suffered anxiety attacks and a serious asthma attack.To add insult to injury when the authorities realised that they had made a mistake not one person apologised for the mix-up.This is a man who needs to know that this will never happen to him again.He will now walk in fear of being detained once again.

He now has a lawyer working on his behalf and who is seeking that the police in some way ensure that this man is not misidentified again and that he receives some compensation for the trauma that he has suffered.He is not a criminal and has never committed a criminal act and yet the police don’t seem to care about his problem.