The Verwaltungsgerichtshof, the German High Court, ruled that a Syrian Muslim, 36, who is "married" to two women, will receive the German passport back.
In 2008 the Syrian married a German woman in Karlsruhe, and seven weeks later his cousin from Syria. Two years later he received German citizenship. After his polygamy became known he was deprived of his citizenship because he had concealed his second wife, when becoming a German.
A court decision backing this decision was now overturned. Both "wives" live in Karlsruhe in different flats.
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