Overview

• President Emmanuel Macron has called for a swift examination of a bill to ban marriage for undocumented migrants, already approved by the Senate in February.
• Marlène Mourier, mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence, refuses to marry a Tunisian man and a French woman, citing suspicions of a sham marriage despite a prosecutor's injunction.
• The prosecutor ruled the marriage investigation found no evidence of fraud and invoked constitutional protections for the right to marry.
• Mourier risks up to five years in prison and disqualification from office for her refusal, stating she is willing to defend her stance in court.
• The debate has intensified following similar actions by Béziers mayor Robert Ménard, who is set to face trial for refusing a marriage involving an Algerian with an expulsion order.