The French authorities said a 39-year-old had attempted to conduct the ceremony with a minor on Saturday. The British police say he is a convicted sex offender.
A convicted sex offender from Britain has been detained in France after he was accused of attempting to stage a mock wedding with a 9-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris that involved scores of unwitting paid actors.
The event was held early on Saturday, before the amusement park opened to the public, but was quickly cut short when staff at the park realized that the “bride” was a minor.
Jean-Baptiste Bladier, a prosecutor in Meaux, a French city just northeast of Disneyland Paris, said in a statement that the police were called to the scene and determined that the wedding was “a fictitious ceremony intended to be filmed privately” with fake guests.
The episode has raised questions about how a registered sex offender was able to book a private event involving a minor at one of the world’s most prominent theme parks.
The main suspect, a 39-year-old British citizen, used a stolen Latvian identity and fake documents to book the event, the police said. Mr. Bladier did not name the man but said he was “professionally made-up to show a face totally different from his own.”
Mr. Bladier said the man had been charged with fraud, identity theft and money laundering. He was also named as an assisted witness — a step short of being formally charged — in an investigation into the potential corruption of a minor.
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