The person, 39, reportedly performed the ‘groom’ within the faux ceremony
A British man who organised a “mock wedding ceremony” in Disneyland Paris involving a nine-year-old lady within the position of the bride has been charged, French prosecutors have mentioned. The 39-year-old man, who reportedly performed the “groom” within the faux ceremony, faces a number of counts of fraud, abuse of belief, cash laundering and identification theft after his arrest on the leisure resort in Marne-la-Vallée, France, on Saturday.
Police had been referred to as by a “visitor” who later claimed he was employed to play the daddy of the bride. An announcement launched by the prosecutor of the tribunal in Meaux Jean-Baptiste Bladier mentioned the person “defined he was paid 12,000 euros to play the position of the daddy of the bride and realised on the final minute that she was 9 years previous.”
The lady is a Ukrainian nationwide who had arrived in France together with her 41-year-old mom two days previous to the mock ceremony, the prosecutor added.
4 individuals had been arrested on Saturday – together with the British “groom”, the lady’s mom, a 24-year-old Latvian girl who performed the sister of the bride, and the 55-year-old Latvian man employed to play the “father of the bride”, the tribunal mentioned.
Prosecutors added Disneyland Paris was “deceived” after the identification of a Latvian man and faux identification paperwork had been used to safe the personal occasion on the park, and that a few hundred employed extras had been falsely offered to the corporate as wedding ceremony visitors.
The British man appeared earlier than the tribunal of Meaux on Monday, after which he was charged. French prosecutors mentioned on Tuesday they’ve been in contact with British authorities and recognized the British suspect as a convicted sexual offender who is needed within the UK.
Mr Bladier wrote in an announcement: “(He) was reportedly convicted up to now, together with for offences of a sexual nature in opposition to minors.
“He’s, as such, listed within the British database of sexual offenders and is at present needed nationally by the judicial authorities of his nation of origin as a result of a breach of the necessities deriving from mentioned order.”
Mr Bladier mentioned in a earlier assertion revealed on Sunday that the marriage ceremony was “fictional and meant to be recorded in a personal capability”.
Preliminary findings additionally acknowledged the “groom” had allegedly been “made-up professionally in order that his face appeared completely totally different from his personal”, in response to the prosecutor.
The 24-year-old Latvian girl at present stays a witness within the investigation, the prosecutor mentioned. Disneyland Paris has been approached for remark by the Press Affiliation.
