Marrying a 9 year old girl and a 22 year old male? ...Disneyland in Paris is in full swing
Jun 24, 2025
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In fact, this wedding was not a real one, but a shoot for social media content production.
According to French media Le Monde, the wedding was scheduled to take place at around 6 a.m. on the 21st (local time) in front of Disneyland 'Sleeping Beauty Castle' with about 100 guests attending.
Organizers spent about $150,000 (about 200 million won) to rent the venue and even mobilized 300 extras and string quartets.
However, the staff who arrived at the scene noticed that the bride was a child and immediately called the police.
The bride is a 9-year-old Ukrainian national girl who wore a wedding dress and 13cm high heels. When the high heels were too big to be loose, I even taped them under my feet. The girl was said to be in a very anxious and confused state.
Upon receiving the report, the police immediately suspended the wedding ceremony and conducted a related investigation.
Police also arrested a total of four people, including a 22-year-old British man who was a 'bride role', a 41-year-old mother of a girl, and a 24-year-old Latvian woman and a 55-year-old man who played the bride's 's 's sister' and 'father', respectively.
Among them, a 55-year-old man stated "I took on the role for about $13,800 (about 19 million won), and I knew for the first time that the bride was a child at the scene."
According to the investigation, the wedding was not an actual wedding, but a staged event for filming social media content.
Organizers recruited 200 adults and 100 child extras online, who participated in the event only to hear the explanation that it was a rehearsal for the wedding.
Disneyland in Paris called the police to stop the event as soon as they recognized that the bride was a childbe actively cooperating with the investigation" he said.
French prosecutors are currently investigating the case, and Disneyland has also filed a complaint against the organizers.
According to medical examinations, it was confirmed that the girl did not suffer physical abuse or coercion. However, it is pointed out that the social impact is large due to the nature of the incident.
This case is attracting attention as an example of the seriousness of inappropriate content creation attempts using children, not just happening.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
