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The suspects of this staging “privatized Disneyland Paris claiming that it was a real marriage,” said the deputy public prosecutor of Meaux.
France – It’s a “Staging” incredible that occurred this Saturday, June 21 in Disneyland Paris. As happens, part of the amusement park had been privatized early this morning by a foreign citizen for a ” marriage “. But it turned out that the bride in question … was a 9 -year -old Ukrainian girl, when a hundred extras had been recruited as guests for this event.
Very quickly this morning, the police were alerted to what was happening in the park, and was able to intervene to interrupt the alleged ceremony. Two people were placed in police custody in Meaux to clarify the circumstances of what happened, AFP learned from a judicial source. An investigation was also opened by the Meaux prosecutor’s office, without anyone knowing for the moment under what qualification.
And of the first elements communicated by the justice, this marriage was in any case indeed a false. “The event turned out to be a staging, the guests being themselves extras”said in a press release the deputy public prosecutor of the city of Meaux, Alexandre Verney. “It was therefore not a marriage, but a wedding staging filmed with a hundred extras, they privatized Disneyland Paris claiming that it was a real marriage”told AFP the magistrate.
“At no time was there a question of a shoot”
Following the police intervention, four people had been arrested and placed in police custody. The hearing of two of them was extended this Saturday evening, suspected of fraud and money laundering: the said ” married “ supposed at the origin of the event, 22 years and “Presumed British”and a 24 -year -old woman, of Latvian nationality. According to a police source with the Parisian, the man confirmed that it was a shoot, and that he is director of a production box.
On the other hand, the police custody was lifted for the mother of the girl, a woman of 41 years of Ukrainian nationality, and that of a 55 -year -old man, of Latvian nationality. The investigations, including the 9 -year -old girl’s medical examination, of Ukrainian nationality, have made it possible that “The latter had not undergone any violence or any constrained act”said the prosecution. For its part, Disneyland Paris park claims to have “Filed a complaint with the competent authorities”.
The extras, on the other hand, had no idea what they were about to attend. “At no time was there a question of a shoot. We all thought we were going to attend a wedding. Everyone was stunned, nobody expected it ”said to the Parisian a witness present in the amusement park this Saturday morning. Same story on the side of another figurative with BFMTV, who says he has “Sleeve in sobs” After discovering that the so-called bride was a child.
