YouTube Anis Boumanjal appearing on Dutch TV

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Anis Boumanjal, from Utrecht, is representing the north African man who is an ongoing court case who has been charged with being married to two women at the same time. Mr Boumajal said: “If both the woman and the man are OK with it, I do not see anything wrong. "Instead of strengthening and tightening it, they should perhaps be looking to adjust the Dutch law."

YouTube Dutch lawyer Anis Boumanjal appears on TV

If both the woman and the man are OK with it, I do not see anything wrong Dutch lawyer Anis Boumanjal

The Dutch lawyer said that it should not be illegal to stop anyone who, in accordance with their religion, wants a second wife. He added: "In the Netherlands, we are used to everybody sleeping around. When it comes to that, no fuss is being made. "If you do want to stop them, it will all start to happen under the radar anyway, and then you will have more problems."

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Mr Boumanjal said that his client had done nothing wrong and had handled everything appropriately in accordance with Moroccan family law. The lawyer admitted that his client had fallen foul of Dutch law, in a literal sense, but asked the court to declare his client guilty but not to face any punishment. The maximum sentence in the Netherlands for bigamy is six years in prison.

YouTube Anis Boumanjal on Dutch TV

However, public prosecutors deemed this to be too high considering the man was only married to both women for a short period of time and one of the two wives divorced hims soon afterwards.

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