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Overview
- The president held a ceremony at the Élysée, where on Tuesday he conferred France’s highest honor, the Légion d’honneur, on 59 police officers and two victims’ association leaders, according to AFP.
- Honorees came from the Paris police prefecture, the BRI and RAID tactical units, and the Paris fire brigade, with Arthur Dénouveaux and Philippe Duperron also decorated.
- Several night‑shift BAC officers who say they were first into the Bataclan were not included, and Macron said they must be fully recognized within the year.
- News outlets reported different totals, with 55 announced before the event and 59 or 61 cited after, a discrepancy linked to updated counts and anonymity rules for some recipients.
- Former and current leaders, including François Hollande and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, joined the ceremony as Macron framed it as an act of national memory a decade after the 2015 attacks.