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Its a form of marriage. We have friends who had an arranged marriage. They are very happy together and would not have got married if it had not suited them. They were not coerced in any way.Italian mayor under house arrest for helping migrants
A mayor in Italy has been put under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal migrants.
Domenico Lucano was placed under home confinement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prosecutors said.
The 60-year-old is the mayor of Riace, a town in southern Italy's poor Calabria region.
A statement said Mr Lucano had organised arranged marriages with "particular ruthlessness" between locals and immigrant women, and had set up "simple yet efficient" systems aimed at bypassing rules for migrants to be granted entrance to Italy.
He would have approved of this.
The mayor was breaking the law, and forcing marriages.
And you are upset that he has been sort of arrested?
Where does it say he forced anybody ?
What the hell do you think an arranged marriage is?
It wouldnt have suited me but its not my culture.
Arranged marriages by families do have a greater chance of success than marriages based on romantic attraction.
However, marriages arranged by the state ... that doesn't smack you as the slightest bit Orwellian?