Former handball player Bruno Martini stripped of his Legion of Honor after his conviction for corruption of a minor

He was sentenced in January to a one-year suspended prison sentence and a 2,500 euro fine for corruption of a minor and recording child pornography images.

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Bruno Martini, in Cologne (Germany), May 27, 2016. (HORST GALUSCHKA / DPA / AFP)

He will no longer be able to wear his decoration. Bruno Martini, ex-president of the National Handball League and former goalkeeper of the Blues, had his Legion of Honor withdrawn on Wednesday January 3, according to a decree published in the Official Journal.

“After advice from the council of the order, Mr. Bruno Martini is excluded from the order of the Legion of Honor and permanently deprived of the right to wear the insignia of any French or foreign decoration belonging to the grand chancellery of the Legion of Honor. honor”specifies this text.

He was sentenced in January to a one-year suspended prison sentence and a 2,500 euro fine for corruption of a minor and recording child pornography images. The former goalkeeper of the French team, world champion in 1995, aged 53, admitted to having exchanged pornographic images with a 13-year-old teenager, but assured that he thought he was at least least 15 years old.


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