Woman marries dead fiance

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A French woman whose fiance asked her to marry him two days before he was killed in a car crash, has been granted a posthumous white wedding in their village.

Magali Jaskiewicz, who has been grieving for her partner since his death a year ago, became his legal widow in a ceremony held with family and friends.

The 26-year-old had lived with Jonathan George for six years and had two children with him.

She stood beside a portrait of her late partner as the marriage rites were read in Dommary-Baroncourt in the east of France.

Under French law posthumous marriages are possible as long as evidence exists that the deceased person had the intention of wedding the partner.

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