Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy · Philosophy & Social Sciences
President of France (2007-12); his maternal grandfather was a Salonika-born Jew who converted to Catholicism.
28 January 1955, Paris, France
Paris, France
Nicolas Sarkozy is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — President of France (2007-12); his maternal grandfather was a Salonika-born Jew who converted to Catholicism.
President of France from 2007 to 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy is the grandson of Benedict Mallah, a Salonika-born Sephardic Jew who settled in Paris and converted to Catholicism in order to marry Sarkozy's grandmother. Sarkozy was raised Catholic; he is here by the descent route, which the site applies openly — and which the persecutors of the last century applied too, conversion or not. As president he brokered the ceasefire in the 2008 Russo-Georgian war and led Europe's response to the financial crisis.
The record also carries his convictions: definitively for corruption and influence-peddling in the 'wiretapping' case, and for illegal campaign financing in the Bygmalion case; further proceedings have followed. This fiche thanks nothing it cannot document, and hides nothing it can.
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President of France (2007-12); his maternal grandfather was a Salonika-born Jew who converted to Catholicism.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy
