A 33-year-old unemployed Italian
mother told ANSA in an interview Friday she is about to embark
on her second marriage-for-hire to a foreigner.
The woman, known only as S., lives with her two-year-old
daughter in a 30-square-meter room in a Rome squat, and is
preparing to fly to Cairo to wed a stranger in exchange for
9,000 euros.
"I need the money," said the bride-for-hire.
"They've promised me lots, but to tell you the truth I
would do it for much less," she said, holding her toddler in her
arms.
"I don't work, but I'm not a criminal," she added.
She went on to explain that her first wedding for hire was
to a Brazilian transsexual in Rome so he could get his residency
permit.
After that divorce, she married the African father of her
child so he could also stay in the country - this time for free.
"I did it for my daughter," said S.
She is now waiting for 1,000-euro advance and a ticket to
her wedding ceremony in Cairo.
Her broker, she said, is an Italian national who wed an
Eritrean woman in Iran.
"When I get back I'm going to buy a couple of things for my
daughter," she said.
"A wedding is one thing, love is quite another. For me
neither matters, nor does it matter to the immigrants. I just
want to get by."
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