PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked fury by giving France’s top honour to sex symbol Salma Hayek — the wife of one of his closest pals.
He has been accused of making a laughing stock of the country’s honours system with the award to the Mexican-born actress, 45, wed to businessman Francois-Henri Pinault.
She has become a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour — a French knighthood — for “services to the French Republic”.