Italy Constitutional Court allowed Algerian illegal immigrants to wed Italians

Hundreds of Algerian illegal immigrants and others in Italy will be able to wed Italians by law force, under the decision of the Italian Constitutional Court.

 The Italian Constitutional Court in Catania, south of the country, issued on Monday a decision to allow foreign illegal immigrants to wed Italians, acknowledging that the illegal immigrant regardless of his position has the right to marry in Italy and his situation must not be an obstacle to his marriage with an Italian national. The new Article 116 of the Civil Code Procedure which was approved in proceedings of the league for security and safety, which is forcing illegal immigrants to the need to have a legal and legitimate permission to stay on the Italian soil as a condition for marriage from an Italian citizen.

With this decision the law of “Bossi-Fini” to regulate immigration which passed in 2002, carrying the name of the leader of the League of Northern right-wing, an anti-immigration group Umberto Bossi and current head of the Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini, a law that restricted a lot of immigrants in Italy and raised criticism in the country and abroad, especially in work, marriage and illegal immigrants’ deportation.

A large community of Algerian illegal immigrants lives in Italy, in centers of identities identification on secret immigrants before deporting them to Algeria, or working illegally in the Italian market.