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Sarkozy Stripped of Légion d’Honneur After Corruption Conviction

The removals were triggered by an automatic rule barring anyone with a definitive prison sentence of a year or more from France’s highest honorary orders.

Nicolas Sarkozy au dernier jour du procès des soupçons de financement libyen de sa campagne présidentielle de 2007, à Paris le 8 avril 2025
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Overview

  • A decree published in the Journal officiel on June 15 officially removed Nicolas Sarkozy from both the Légion d’honneur and the Ordre national du Mérite.
  • Under a rule enforced by the Grande chancellerie, any recipient with a definitive conviction and at least one year of firm imprisonment is automatically stripped of these distinctions.
  • Sarkozy was convicted in December 2024 for attempting to corrupt magistrate Gilbert Azibert in the ‘affaire des écoutes’ and received a three-year sentence, including one year behind bars.
  • His co-defendants, magistrate Gilbert Azibert and lawyer Thierry Herzog, were also excluded from both honorary orders by the same June decree.
  • The former president remains involved in other legal cases, notably an inquiry into alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign, with a verdict due in September 2025.