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Russian President Vladimir Putin may be stripped of France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor, but no such decision has yet been made. According to Le Figaro, this was stated by the leader of the republic, Emmanuel Macron.
He noted that he does not limit himself to anything in this matter, which is “symbolic, but important” and pointed out that such actions are always “full of meaning” and should be done at the “opportune moment.”
Putin received the Legion of Honor in September 2006, when France was led by Jacques Chirac.
In the office of the order, they talked about the admissibility of “disciplinary punishment” for any person awarded it. If the order is awarded to a French citizen, he can be sent a letter of censure, or temporarily deprived of the order, but in the case of a foreign citizen, only deprivation of the award is possible. They also indicated that the President of France is free to independently choose the people who will receive the order and unilaterally make a decision to withdraw the order.
In 2017, Macron ordered that producer Harvey Weinstein be stripped of the Légion d’honneur following allegations of sexual harassment; in 2020, a jury found him guilty. Weinstein received the award in 2012.
The order was also awarded to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2001. After the start of the civil war in the country and the strikes of Washington, London and Paris on the positions of government troops, the French authorities began the procedure for recalling the order, but Assad independently abandoned it. terrorists,” the Assad administration said.
Source: Rosbalt
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