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Three Frenchmen Deported from Cambodia for Posing Nude at Banteay Kdei Temple

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Defendants Vincent Henri, 20, Rodolphe Fourgeot, 21, and Alexander Andre Raymond, 22,

Defendants Vincent Henri, 20, Rodolphe Fourgeot, 21, and Alexander Andre Raymond, 22,

 

SIAM REAP – Cambodian Authorities have reported that three French tourists will be deported from Cambodia after they pleaded guilty to taking nude pictures of each other inside the country’s famed Angkor temple complex.

Banteay Kdei temple

Banteay Kdei temple

The 3 male tourists, Vincent Henri, 20, Rodolphe Fourgeot, 21, and Alexander Andre Raymond, 22, were arrested last week after they were discovered taking naked photos inside the Banteay Kdei temple at the world heritage site in northwestern Siem Reap province.

The three Frenchmen, who are all in their early twenties, received a suspended six-month prison sentence and will be banned from re-entering Cambodia for four years.

“They confessed to making a mistake and asked for the Cambodian people to forgive them for their actions,” prosecutor Koeut Sovannareth said.

The arrests caused deep anger among Cambodian officials, who said taking nude photos at such a sacred site was deeply offensive.

“They will be deported from Cambodia very soon,” Sovannareth added, saying the three were convicted on two charges — public exposure and making pornography.

The court also ordered the three men to pay a fine of $750.

“They said their goal was to take nude photos to keep as souvenirs, but we believe that their intention was to use the photos in publications such as a calendar,” Sovannareth said.

Photos of an unidentified woman posing in a temple in Siem Reap.

Photos of an unidentified woman posing in a temple in Siem Reap.

 

The deportations came about a week after photos of partially clothed women posing at Banteay Kdei temple surfaced online, with a watermark for “WANIMAL”, a Chinese photo-sharing website.

Those photos, which were seen on a WANIMAL account which includes photos of nude women posing with exotic backgrounds, were also decried by Apsara Authority officials as disrespectful to Khmer culture.

The Angkor Archeological Park, a world heritage site, contains the remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th to the 15th Centuries, and is Cambodia’s most popular tourist destination

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