German minister: No more polygamy & underage wives for immigrants
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has promised to crackdown on the growing problem of multiple, forced, and underage marriages that immigrants from developing countries are bringing with them – but which have often been ignored by authorities.
“No one who comes to us has the right to put their cultural roots or their religious beliefs above our laws,” the politician from the center-left SPD party told Bild newspaper on Tuesday.
The state of Bavaria alone has been able to confirm 550 cases of brides aged under 18, and 161 under 16, living among the asylum seekers that have arrived in the recent migrant wave, and similar statistics have been reported throughout Germany, according to Bild.
A government report from 2012 stated that more than half of all Muslim marriages in Germany involved a bride who was under 18.
Spiegel reported the same year that as many as 30 percent of Arab men had multiple wives.
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