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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Parisians warned that naked sunbathers will be jailed

Parisians have been warned to keep their clothes on or face fines and even imprisonment as the city's residents began flocking to parks and the Seine to bask in the summer sun.

Parisians warned that naked sunbathers will be jailed
People enjoy the sun on Paris-Palges 
In a statement posted on its website, the Paris police prefecture outlined rules for sun bathing outdoors and at the popular Paris Plages annual event that has sandy beaches and deckchairs laid out on the river bank.
Police said it is not forbidden "when the thermometer rises a few degrees to put on your best bathing suit and find a little corner of grass or the welcoming banks of the Seine to put down your towel."
The guidelines specify that bathing suits should not be worn in official city parks and that dress should be "decent and in accordance with good morals and public order."
Those wearing inappropriate dress could be fined at least €38 (£30), with cash penalties of up to €3,750 (£2,950) and two years in jail if suspected of soliciting sex,.
But unlike many beaches in elsewhere in France, topless sunbathing or nudity is completely forbidden on the banks of the River Seine.
"Any outfit that allows for the genital area or breasts to be seen constitutes sexual exhibition and is punishable by a year in prison," police said.

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