Furious 700 protesters attack Jeff Bezos wedding with anti-fascist songs

More than 700 furious protesters sang anti-fascist songs during the latest demonstrations to hit Venice after Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez tied the knot in the Italian city. The billionaire founder of Amazon and the former journalist married on Friday (June 27) in front of almost 200 guests at San Giorgio Maggiore.

After lavish celebrations lasted into the night, there was more partying at a former medieval shipyard on Saturday to look forward to on Saturday. But activists continued to stage protests this evening, raising banners reading "Money cannot buy style" and singing anti-fascist numbers.

Protesters started to assemble outside Santa Lucia railway station, armed with banners and inflatable crocodiles, according to MailOnline. The same publication estimated the number of protesters grew from 500 to 700 as marchers made their way to the Rialto Bridge.

Bezos and Sánchez Bezos' hotel, the Aman Venice on the Grand Canal, is said to be just five minutes away from one part of the city where protesters gathered.

One banner read "Kisses yes, Bezos no" in a play on words of the billionaire's surname and the Spanish word for kisses, "besos". A placard read "55 million dollars spent on the wedding just to get a divorce in 3 days".

Activists have targeted the wedding for a variety of reasons, including to protest against income inequality and Venice's being exploited as a stage for the wedding.

Some of the protesters have also used the wedding to draw attention to Venice's high housing costs, the threat of flooding from climate change and the impacts of overtourism.

Details of the wedding ceremony had been kept tightly under wraps until Sánchez Bezos posted to Instagram a photo of herself beaming in a white gown as she stood alongside a tuxedo-clad Bezos, the world's fourth-richest man.

A string of water taxis cut through the lagoon to bring Bezos, Sánchez Bezos and their guests to the tiny San Giorgio island, across the lagoon basin from St. Mark's Square, where the couple held their private ceremony.

Guests included Oprah Winfrey, Ivanka Trump, Queen Rania of Jordan, Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger, Leonardo Di Caprio, Orlando Bloom and Bill Gates.

Protesters said earlier that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of guests at one of the wedding venues had forced organisers to move the event to the more secure Arsenale area beyond the centre of Venice.

City authorities have defended the nuptials as being in keeping with Venice's tradition as an open city which has welcomed popes, emperors and ordinary people alike for centuries.

Bezos donated £854,000 (1 million euros) each to three environmental research organisations working to preserve Venice, according to Corila, the Venetian environmental research association.