Rumour has it that the short French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has banned tall bodyguards from protecting him, even though they have an advantage in spotting threats in a large crowd. You can read the full artice here

The newspaper ‘Le Parisien’ was told that hiring “supermen” served no purpose since large bodyguards were more unlikely to be challenged.

Like most short men, President Sarkozy is sensitive about his height as he stands at approximately 5‘5″ - Dustin Hoffman and Phil Collins are among many other famous individuals who stood at around the 5’5″ mark.

His wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is 5’10″ and for men who are sensitive about their height, the only thing worse than being short is having your partner be taller than you.

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The article states that President Sarkozy has apparently organised for a small number of industrial employees to appear beside him for an extraordinary reason - because they are shorter than him, hence, standing next to them would make the President appear taller. Once this was known to the media, journalists, artists and cartoonists were given the rope to ridicule Mr Sarkozy even more than they did previously.

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