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.
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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