Foreign Office warns tourists in France to bring important documents or risk fine and jail

French tourists have been warned by the Foreign Office (Image: Getty) The Foreign Office has issued an important warning to tourists heading to France. If you are set to go to the nation soon - be it for a business trip, a long-awaited holiday or the Olympics 2024 - there is one important thing you will want to bring with you. And failture to do so could see you being slapped with a hefty fine or even being put behind bars.

It comes as the Foreign Office said that tourists need to provide specific documents for identification purposes. On their website , the government officials state that when it comes to personal identification, tourists need to be able to provide one of three official IDs. These must be provided by a government body, it adds.

They explain: "You must be able to prove your identity either by providing documents when asked or within 4 hours at a police station." Identity documents can be: function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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