PARIS (AFP) — Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was on Tuesday given a four-year suspended prison sentence over a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 presidential bid.

He is the second former Head of State to lose the highest honor of the French Republic. Former President of the Republic ...

Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been stripped of the country’s highest honour by a public decree, expelling him from the Legion of Honour.The decree was given a retroactive effect from ...

A makeshift memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark is seen at the state Capitol, Sunday, June ...

Nicolas Sarkozy was president of France from 2007 to 2012. He has now been stripped of the Legion of Honour medal, which is ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honor medal after he was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling while he was the country’s head of state ...

Sarkozy is only the second former French leader to have the Legion of Honour medal taken away - the first was infamous Nazi ...