Now that the three -day wedding party of Jeff Bezos (61) with his beloved Lauren Sánchez (55) is approaching in Venice, the questions are bursting at the event and the tension is rising. Will the millions of dollars be disturbed in a playful way? Will Bezos still feel like coming? There has also been a lack of clarity about the date on which the world-famous VIPs will come together to together to toast the Italian Dogen City on marriage.
The activists also rolled out a banner against the wedding party of Bezos on the famous Rialto bridge. © Bloomberg
Campaigners at all honored
The cause are the noisy protests of activists of so -called “social centers” that are always very active in venice. Certainly when it comes to a super de luxury party of one of the richest people in the world in their city. The American Bezos is the founder of Amazon and to be precise the two richest man in the world. He wants to tackle his wedding party big. Many world stars, such as Lady Gaga and Leonardo di Caprio, would meet on a very expensive Megajacht, called Koru. According to a calculation of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the party would be around 15 million dollars. But the activists are by no means honored with their arrival. They hand out pamphlets all over the city and hang banners with the text: No Space for Bezos. That has also become the name of their committee.
The activists want to do everything to prevent the gigantic and very expensive wedding party (the wedding itself takes place in the United States) and if that is not possible to disturb. They say to know that Bezos has been announced for the period from 24 to 26 June, on other days because he tried to get the activists out smartly. “I am against the arrogance of Bezos that comes here with five yachts and thinks we can use our city as a billionaire as if it were his own ballroom or a casino of Las Vegas. He sees Venice as a luxurious Disneyland. That broke the social aspect of Venice,” said activist Tommaso Cacciari against the Telegraaf. “He is not like George Clooney, who was also married here before, but had kept everything much more sober. Bezos is not an actor of Hollywood, he was close to Trump when he was inaugurated as president. And Bezos gave false information about the data of his wedding festivals with his greatness of his wedding. inform. ”
Not all Venetians share the opinion of the activists. “I have the plague that a small group spoils it for the entire city. This wedding party is an opportunity for our city to present itself well. In Venice we are used to large marriages and in this case the number of guests is also limited. That is why we have no problems with it. On the contrary, it is good for the economy and employment, says inhabitant Alessandra says. She fears that Bezos no longer wants to come to Venice due to the protests.
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Private event
The mayor of Venetie Luigi Brugnaro says he is ashamed of the rebels in his city who want to disrupt the wedding party in every possible way. The alderman of Tourism in Venice Simone Venturini also has the plague about it. He tells De Telegraaf that a lot of wrong information about Bezos’s wedding party is being given. “First of all, it is a private event. So no permission from the municipality is needed at all, because it all takes place at private places”. Cacciari campaigner fights this. “Bezos uses the channels of Venice, the Fondazione Cini on the island of San Giorgio and the space of the Misericordia, that is all public territory!”
In Venice there is not exactly a lack of tourists. But according to the alderman of Tourism Simone Venturini, the traffic circulation of Venice will not be bothered by the wedding party. © Bloomberg
Venturini also states that the wedding party will have no negative influence on traffic circulation. “The number of guests is limited. In Venice, hundreds of weddings and wedding parties are organized a year where many more guests come, without causing problems for the city. We therefore assume that this wedding party will not cause any problems for the city at all. That is really fake news.”
Campaigners meet in Venice to plan plans against the upcoming wedding party of Jeff Bezos in their city. © AFP
Blockades and uprights
Nevertheless, the alderman thinks that those days can indeed arise, but they come from another corner: “The only problems that can arise in the city is due to a small group of people, namely the activists who, as always, are part of so -called” social centers “and have threatened the wedding party of Bezos with blockages and revolts. It is possible that they may ensure a burden for the citizens and certainly not the guests of a wedding who meet on a private property. There will therefore also be no way that days are deposited, unless the groups that want to kick the Heibel ensure that the police feel for safety reasons to do that. ”