(ANSAmed) - PARIS, OCTOBER 16 - The public prosecutor in the
town of Chambery has blocked the first gay French-Moroccan
marriage, after a local court on October 11 ruled that
55-year-old mechanic Dominique and Mohammed, a young Moroccan
student, could go ahead and get married.
Their lawyer Didier Besson, who hopes to break new juridical
ground by challenging the current law of the land and who is
much in demand among gay couples of mixed citizenship, has
already filed an appeal in Chambery.
France legalized gay marriage in May, but added that due to bilateral conventions French citizens can't marry same-sex citizens from 11 countries: Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kosovo, Laos, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Tunisia. Gay rights groups immediately challenged what they said was a discriminatory law, calling on the justice ministry to make a ''rapid and political response''. (ANSAmed).
France legalized gay marriage in May, but added that due to bilateral conventions French citizens can't marry same-sex citizens from 11 countries: Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kosovo, Laos, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Tunisia. Gay rights groups immediately challenged what they said was a discriminatory law, calling on the justice ministry to make a ''rapid and political response''. (ANSAmed).
