3 Frenchmen arrested for nudity at temple
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THREE French tourists have been arrested by Cambodian authorities for taking nude photos of each other inside the country’s famed Angkor temple complex, officials said yesterday.
The male tourists were discovered inside the Banteay Kdei temple at the world heritage site on Thursday, Chau Sun Kerya, spokeswoman for the Apsara Authority — the government agency managing the Angkor complex — said.
“The temple is a worship site and their behaviour is inappropriate. They were nude,” she said.
Keat Bunthan, a senior heritage police official in northwestern Siem Reap province, confirmed the nationalities of the arrested and said many Cambodians would be offended by the tourists’ actions.
“Their activities affect our culture. Nobody should take nude pictures at ancient temples,” he said.
The authority said in a statement that the three tourists have “admitted they really made a mistake by taking nude pictures.”
The agency added Cambodian police were building a case against them.
The tourists were caught just days after photos of Asian women posing nude at ancient Cambodian temples went viral online and outraged officials.
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