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AdChoices French tourists arrested for nude photos at Cambodia’s Angkor
AFP 9 hrs ago
© Sima Dubey/Bloomberg News Cambodian tourist enjoys the outside view of the Angkor Wat Temple site in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Tuesday November 29, 2007.
It has been reported by Chau Sun Kerya, spokeswoman for the Apsara Authority that 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 Friday.
The male tourists were discovered inside the Banteay Kdei temple at the world heritage site on Thursday, the spokeswoman for the Apsara Authority — the government agency managing the Angkor complex — told AFP.
“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 told AFP.
The Apsara 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 a series of photos of Asian women posing nude at ancient Cambodian temples went viral online and outraged officials.
The Angkor Archaeological Park, a world heritage site, contains the remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th to the 15th century and is Cambodia’s most popular tourist destination.”
Just for the record, I must add that there has been an increase in disgraceful acts in many places of worship here of late. Some by tourists, some by priests, some by preachers and some by laity. People have resorted in doing many foul things in religious places now days.