Disneyland Paris workers were horrified to find a large wedding they were hosting was between a man and a 9-year-old girl — with the groom and child bride’s mom arrested in what is now thought to have been a sick, $150,000 social media stunt.
The French amusement park had been hired early Saturday for the ceremony in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle, with no warning that the bride was just a child, Le Parisien reported.
Some 300 guests and a string quartet arrived around 5 a.m., before the park was open for regular tourists — with horrified employees only then seeing how young the bride was, BFMTV reported.
The “scared and confused” little girl was wearing a wedding dress and 5-inch heels “taped to her feet,” Le Parisien reported.
Staff called police, who arrested four of those involved — including the would-be groom, a 22-year-old British national, BFMTV said.
They also arrested the 41-year-old mother of the 9-year-old girl, both of whom had arrived in Paris from Ukraine two days before the sick ceremony, according to the report.
Police also arrested two Latvian nationals, a 24-year-old woman recruited to play the role of the bride’s sister and a 55-year-old recruited to act as her father, BFMTV reported.
“The latter, who initiated the call to Disneyland Paris security, explained that he had been recruited to play the role of the bride’s father for [$13,840] and had discovered at the last minute that the bride was 9 years old,” the deputy prosecutor of Meaux said in a statement. --->READ MORE HERE
Authorities later discovered that the wedding "guests" were hired actors who had been bused into the park for the event and given few details about what was scheduled to occur.
Four people have been arrested at Disneyland Paris after allegedly attempting to stage a fake wedding between a 22-year-old British man and a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl. According to The Independent, the theme park had been privately hired for the ceremony on Saturday morning before it was open to the public. However, authorities were alerted soon after the Disneyland Paris staff noticed that the bride at a pre-scheduled wedding appeared alarmingly young.
According to the outlet, four people have been arrested and taken into custody, including the girl's mother, a 41-year-old Ukrainian woman. Two Latvian nationals, ages 24 and 55, are being questioned on suspicion of money laundering and fraud. The supposed groom is thought to have organised the event.
Alexandre Verney, assistant prosecutor for the Seine-et-Marne department, said that the young girl received a medical examination, and it was determined that she was unharmed.
"Four people were arrested and questioned: the groom, who was believed to be the organiser of the event and is presumed to be British and aged 22; the mother of the child, a 41-year-old Ukrainian woman; and two Latvian nationals aged 55 and 24," Mr Verney said.
He also stated that authorities discovered that the wedding "guests" were hired actors who had been bused into the park for the event and given few details about what was scheduled to occur.
The whole event was advertised as a "rehearsal" for a wedding in Disneyland. The advert sought to find 200 adults and 100 children aged between 5 and 15. --->READ MORE HERE
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