From OUR CORRESPONDENT AT CAEN, JEAN-PIERRE BEUVE
In Honfleur, Saint Catherine car park is closed from Friday afternoon. Security fences surround the wooden church and a bit distant steeple. In the choir, huge armfuls of white wisteria hang on the chandeliers. The pavement shines: "It has been completely scrubbed, which had not been done for several years," says Pascal Marie priest.
Civil marriage was celebrated in May in England. But for its religious wedding Saturday afternoon with financial Alexandre Al Khawam, Fund Vice President Africa Private Equity Team, Noor Fares, 29, a jeweler, was anxious at the church of St. Catherine Honfleur.
The father of the bride, Issam Fares, is the head of Wedge Group, which employs 70,000 people worldwide. The billionaire was also deputy prime minister of Lebanon between 2000 and 2005, a position where he increased international contacts. Maronite Christian, he has been decorated by Pope Francis.
The festival will be set in the neighboring stud Manneville, home to thoroughbred stable of Issam Fares four Parisian caterers are mobilized to sustain the guests. If former US Presidents Clinton and Bush have declined, not least a thousand happy (not so) Few will be present. Most will, according to the weekly Le Pays d'Auge, housed in institutions Barrière Deauville: Royal Hotel, Golf and Normandy will be for almost privatized occasion.
And "the church it is privatized? "Growls the Honfleur-Info site. Because that's saying that the happy event is no fun at all. It is not easy to channel a thousand people and vehicles in the flow of weekend tourists amid the narrow streets. By-law, traffic is permitted on some streets, while the Saturday market is held. The eleven municipal police officers will receive the backing of thirty private security guards.
The town hall, which was requested by the communications agency managing the marriage, warned residents by mail: "We are aware of the inconvenience that the event can bring. We did everything with the services of the National and Municipal Police, with the Assistant to the traffic and parking and technical services for minimize. "
In return for this temporary inconvenience, the Fares family pay 15,000 euros for mayor of Honfleur who will use this funding to the maintenance of the church and a chapel. Largesse that was not enough to appease the people of Honfleur. According to Ouest-France, "some feel put aside because of the ceremonial pomp."
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