French woman marries dead comrade from three years |
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Written by Sined |
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:12 |
Martine Mallard, 53, won the French judicial authorization to marry him, posthumously, her boyfriend, Alain Duvignacq, killed by cancer just days after the original date of the wedding. The go-ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy ended a three-year battle led by women. So the wedding was held in Saintes, west of the country, as reported by the daily Le Parisien. Her husband, Alain Duvignacq, a former railway worker, was smoke from cancer aged 53, just days before the wedding, set for July 30, 2007. Since then, Martine, who is an employee of a nursery school, learned of a procedure for authorizing the posthumous marriage, has fought to obtain official authorization. Despite the publication of the wedding clearly shows the will of the deceased, the gendarmerie of Saintes has opened an investigation on a long procedure is very rare in France. But in the end won the day the woman. Today, to demand the posthumous weddings are mostly fellow soldiers or police officers killed in the performance of their duties. A year ago, the 20 year old married Aurelie Aurelien, who died in Afghanistan. [Tgcom] |