(Swiss Info) Mustafa Memeti, the imam of the Muslim Association of Bern and responsible for the mosque in the Swiss capital’s House of Religions, has announced he will stand down at the end of April.
Memeti, 62, said in a statement on Wednesday that with his resignation he also took responsibility for forced marriages in the House of Religions.
In November Swiss public broadcaster SRF revealed that forced marriages had taken place in the House of Religions in Bern and the imam had not checked in all cases whether the requirements for a religious marriage had been met. The primacy of civil marriage, that is, a civil marriage preceding a religious marriage, had therefore been violated.
