A German state detects 358 Muslim child marriages and does not intend to do anything
A parliamentary question from the AfD reveals that Baden-Württemberg has annulled only eight of the 358 child marriages detected. The government has no annulment procedure for the remainder.
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The Baden-Württemberg child marriage scandal has come to light. thanks to a parliamentary question from the MPs of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Nikolaos Boutakoglou and Emely Knorr, of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The Official response from the government of Baden-Württemberg of 7 October reveals that They do nothing about the 98% of child marriages.. Among the reasons is a particularly controversial circumstance: When the victim reaches the age of 18, the marriage is legally validated.. This prevents its cancellation from being processed.
The majority of detected child marriages involve people of Syrian, Iraqi and Pakistani nationality. Despite the gravity of the facts, the government of Baden-Württemberg acknowledges that at present There are no court proceedings underway to annul the detected child marriages..
Germany bans child marriage, but nothing happens
In Germany, the minimum age to marry is 18. The country In 2017, it passed a specific law to combat child marriage., especially those held abroad and subsequently brought into the country. The situation is particularly serious because among the cases are girls aged 11, 12 and 13 married to adolescents or adult men. Despite this, 350 cases have been closed without a final annulment ruling. The system prohibits marrying minors in Germany, but has not resolved the legal consequences of child marriages celebrated in other countries.
The same parliamentary response exposes another shortcoming: The government of Baden-Württemberg doesn't even know how many pupils who were forcibly married have dropped out of school.a. The Ministry of Education acknowledges that it does not collect this data. Therefore, the authorities cannot determine how many minors have stopped attending school after a forced marriage.
80 girls threatened with marriage
In 2025 alone, the YASEMIN advisory service, funded by the regional government, assisted 80 girls threatened with forced marriage. Thirty-three were minors: four were under 12, five were 12 and two were only 13. These are girls who, instead of worrying about their studies, have to face the threat of being forced to marry.
In July 2026, the regional Ministry of Education distributed an emergency guide to teachers to identify pupils at risk of being taken abroad during the holidays and forced to marry. The authorities warned that some of these minors might never return to German schools. Thus, the situation is that the same government that asks teachers to detect and prevent forced marriages admits that it has only secured eight court annulments of the 358 registered child marriages and currently has no annulment proceedings underway.
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