Key legal question
Whether the facilitated naturalization had been obtained by false declarations or concealment of essential facts under Art. 41 LN.
Extracted holding
The applicant did not fraudulently obtain facilitated naturalization; at the time of the declaration he could still sincerely maintain that the marriage was stable.
Extracted reasoning
The marriage was not fictitious, the couple lived together for years, and the later breakdown did not sufficiently prove that he already knew of the instability on 31 August 1999. The rapid sequence of events created only a rebuttable presumption, which was overcome by evidence of continued cohabitation and family life after the declaration.