Residents of the French town of Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly are currently unable to receive ID cards with the correct name of their place of residence.
The reason: the name is simply too long for the form, as the mayor Raynald Boulenger confirmed.
Several residents of the 1,300-souls village in the Somme department complained in the spring that they did not get the identity cards they had applied for.
In the meantime, however, a solution has been found.
For the time being, the residents are being issued temporary ID cards with an abbreviated place name.
From next year they should get new ID cards with all 38 characters from Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly.
hba / AFP
