Euro confetti sparks French row

[DeltaWhisky58]

Euro confetti sparks French row

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The euros used were reportedly defective

A lavish wedding in a French town which saw the happy couple showered in confetti made from shredded euro notes has caused outrage.

Residents of the southern town of Sete were up in arms after the bride and groom were covered in confetti made from 5, 10, 20 and 50 euro notes.
They also lodged a formal complaint, as destruction of banknotes is a crime.
But according to reports, the money was worthless - the euros were defective and bound for the incinerator.

'Revolting'

The controversy began after townsfolk had seen the confetti at the 8 July wedding and formed a collective to force local officials to react.
"It's revolting that people have to see their minimum wage turned into confetti lying on the street," one member of the collective said.
The scandal-causing confetti was part of a lavish ceremony attended by more than 200 guests, which included a fireworks display costing more than 40,000 euros ($51,000), according to French newspaper Liberation. The doomed notes had been procured by a friend of the bride's family.

BBC News Online (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5237966.stm)

[SOG]

"It's revolting that people have to see their minimum wage turned into confetti lying on the street," one member of the collective said.

if i understand then, they are angry because the rich are showing off in a most oppulent way? how is this new? thats what rich people do. they eat 100 dollar lunches, they have private chefs, cars that cost as much as peoples homes,clothes that cost as much as peoples cars and jewelry that is worth more than five years of a married couples wages and then they go to bat for causes wanting our meager money but are unwilling to give themselves. but hey, what else is new?

i guess you could pull off your glove, demand satisfaction across thier face, and shove a rapier into a rich asshole. good times....

[Luno]

Aint that a crime to destroy money? Correct me if i am wrong but money is the properties of the government or in this case EU...

[Weasel]

Aint that a crime to destroy money? Correct me if i am wrong but money is the properties of the government or in this case EU...
It is a crime.

[Eddy]

Yes, I dont know how it is elswhere but in France, destroying money is a punished crime.

[welshmann]

i would rather it whole as a gift:)

[Hunterhr]

I imagine it was defective money. If so, the good towns people need to shut up and get back to toiling in the fields.

[Kaapeli]

If the money was defective then how did the wedding guests get it? I don't think defective money is handed out to anyone but destroyed very carefully so that it can't be used even accidentally. It's a security issue.

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The scandal-causing confetti was part of a lavish ceremony attended by more than 200 guests, which included a fireworks display costing more than 40,000 euros ($51,000), according to French newspaper Liberation.

The doomed notes had been procured by a friend of the bride's family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5237966.stm