US EditionMarriage of an Oqtf: Mayor and Deputies Prefer to Resign
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In the Paris region, in Chessy, the mayor and all his deputies resigned from their executive functions in order not to celebrate the marriage of a foreigner under OQTF since 2022. According to our information, the future groom was under the obligation to leave the territory for irregular stay. But, as the OQTF was not executed, this reason is not sufficient for justice to oppose it. For an elected person, refusing to celebrate a marriage is a cr…
In Chessy, Seine-et-Marne, the mayor and his deputies resigned in bloc rather than celebrating the marriage of a man targeted by an OQTF, when the court ordered the town hall to organize the ceremony.
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Despite the evidence provided by the couple and the duty of justice, Olivier Bourjot refused to marry a woman and a man under OQTF, whose relationship he considered "inincense".
The mayor of Chessy (Seine-et-Marne) preferred to resign rather than to celebrate the marriage of a foreigner under obligation to leave French territory as required by the law
The town hall of Seine-et-Marne refuses the union of a couple whose man was notified of an obligation to leave the territory in 2022. While the court imposed on the city to celebrate the marriage, the elected officials resigned so that no civil registry officer could do so.
He and his deputies have chosen to resign from their executive functions rather than "officially act on the presence in the national territory of an individual subject to an obligation to leave".
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