The Minister of the Interior wants to be able to include in a future bill the obligation for “one of the two parents [d’être] regularly for more than a year [contre trois mois actuellement] on the territory [de Mayotte] so that their child is recognized as French”.
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Gérald Darmanin and his Minister Delegate for Overseas Jean-François Carenco begin a three-day trip to Mayotte on Sunday August 21, with the priority of combating illegal immigration on the island, the 101st French department plagued by poverty and the ‘insecure. The subject will be the subject of a major debate in Parliament next fall before the presentation of a bill.
The Minister hopes to be able to include in this text the obligation for “one of the two parents [d’être] regularly for more than a year [contre trois mois actuellement] on the territory [de Mayotte] so that their child is recognized as French”, he said in an interview with Sunday newspaper (article reserved for subscribers).
“Clearly, there will no longer be the same land law in Mayotte as there is in the rest of French territory.”
Gerald Darmaninat “JDD”
In addition, Gérald Darmanin explains that to fight against false paternity certificates made by “men, either Mahorais or foreigners in a regular situation” at “newly arrived immigrant children” now these fathers will have to prove “that they maintain the child for three years and no longer just two”.