Sarkozy's portrait removed from wedding ceremonies at town hall
Framed photograph of French president legally required to hang in every town hall, but couples in Bauvin ask for it to be moved
Nicolas Sarkozy's portrait has been relegated to a corridor in one town hall after couples requested it be moved. Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/EPA
Couples in a French village are refusing to have Nicolas Sarkozy at their weddings.
At the town hall in Bauvin, a village of 5,400 people in the north of France, the leftwing mayor agreed to move the president's official portrait – which must be displayed in town halls – at the request of three couples.
Christian Cambon, a member of Sarkozy's ruling right of centre UMP party, a senator and a mayor, criticised the removal, saying it was not the first time this had happened.
"The only thing that is obligatory is that the portrait is in the town hall and not necessarily in the marriage room," he added.
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