Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion d’honneur award, France’s highest distinction, after his graft conviction. The former French president was found guilty of illegal attempts to obtain favors from a judge.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012, has had his Legion d’honneur (Legion of Honor) award revoked after his conviction on graft charges, according to a decree published Sunday.

He has thus become the second French head of state to be stripped of the award after Philippe Petain, who headed the collaborationist Vichy regime during World War II and was convicted in August 1945 for high treason and conspiring with the Nazi occupiers.

The widely-expected decision to take the award back from Sarkozy came despite the opposition of current French President Emmanuel Macron, who said in April that he thought that it was important for “former presidents to be respected.”

  • SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Why do I get the feeling this was one of many non public corrupt decisions this man made? Apologies if this is not the case, but our shitty leader in US will have an iceberg of maleficence on his coat tails.

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    “The widely-expected decision to take the award back from Sarkozy came despite the opposition of current French President Emmanuel Macron, who said in April that he thought that it was important for “former presidents to be respected.” First of all fuck you and your pedophile wife Macron and second of all this award was created by Napoleon himself, what about respecting him, or your history or what the award actually stands for?

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      Not to defend that asshole, but calling his wife a peadophile may be inexact. Maybe a cougars, but not a paedophile.
      We unfortunately have mostly first party testimony on how their love began, so it has to be taken with a grain of salt, but according to them it was Macron that fell in love, and wooed her first.
      She refused, because he was underage at that time (and she was his teacher), but once he bacame an adult, he doubled down. And we know the result of that.
      Of course that ask the question of possible grooming, but considering he is mature enough to think for himself, I think it isn’t something for us to judge.
      Now if she surrounded herself with some kind of harem of youger men, that’d be a lot more suspect, but to this day they seem to be an harmonious couple, and faithful to each other.
      Let’s not judge hastily other people love and story. There are probably a lot of other reasons we do not know.