A British man has been arrested at Disneyland Paris after he allegedly tried to marry a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl with ‘4 inch heels taped to her feet’. WTF?

The suspect, 22, was the ‘groom’ at this bizarre staged ceremony which took place at dawn in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle.

Police were alerted shortly after the ‘ceremony’ began as the bride was very evidently a young child.

The nine-year-old was wearing a wedding dress and was said to have worn four-inch heels taped to her feet.

The man later told police that he was making a video for social media. So, just roleplaying as a nonce instead of actually being one?

Disney confirmed in a statement that the area been privately hired for the ceremony on Saturday morning (21 June), which involved the help of an agency to recruit nearly 80 extras, according to France Bleu. Disney noted: ‘a private event planned in our destination was immediately cancelled by our teams after the identification of important irregularities’.

Four people, including the 22-year-old British man and the girl’s 41-year-old mum, were taken into custody. The other arrestees were two Latvian men, aged 55 and 24.

So just what in the hell was going on here exactly? Apparently the event cost organisers $130,000 (£111,000), so this was in no way a small production. What kind of video were they filming exactly, and for which social media account, given they were spending six figures on it?

A medical examination of the girl found she had not suffered any physical harm, so that’s good. But it’s still an extremely baffling and concerning situation.

A source who claimed to have been a wedding guest told a French newspaper:

‘We all thought we were going to attend a wedding… Everyone was stunned, no one expected it. Disneyland did things very well.

‘They canceled everything as soon as they realized the bride was a child. We were shocked to see that.’

The extras said they had been driven from central Paris on buses at 5am and handed pink bracelets with the names of the ‘bride and groom’ printed on them.

Another extra, named Yeleen, who attended the ceremony with her daughter, said:

‘I saw a little girl dressed in white. I saw her hair prepared with curls and a lady picking her up in her arms.

‘At that moment, I was shocked. I realised when I saw the child. It was atrocious.’

The prosecutor’s office later explained:

‘So it wasn’t a wedding, but a staged wedding filmed with around a hundred extras. They privatized Disneyland Paris, pretending it was a real wedding.’

Very strange indeed. I mean, even if the adults and Disney and the law were aware that it wasn’t a real wedding (which they weren’t), I’m not sure a 9-year-old child would be able to tell the difference. It’s not like she’s roleplaying this wedding at school or with her friends. She’s roleplaying getting married to an adult so that it can be shared on social media. I know shock value is good for views and whatnot, but it’s still difficult to imagine that anyone would think this would be a good idea.

I guess time will tell whether this was some dumb ‘influencer’ stunt or something more sinister, but either way – it’s not good.

For the bride who was horrified to find her groom being breastfed by his mother on their wedding day, click HERE. Yikes.