Last newspaper hawker in Paris receives top awardAFP, PARISAli Akbar Akbar has been homeless, experienced extreme poverty and had been attacked. On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron made Pakistan-born Akbar, believed to be the last newspaper hawker in Paris, a knight in the national order of merit in recognition of his service to France. Macron praised Akbar’s “incredible destiny,” thanking the septuagenarian for arriving from Pakistan decades ago, selling newspapers for 50 years and carrying France in his heart. French President Emmanuel Macron, left, awards the Chevalier of the French Order of Merit to Ali Akbar Akbar in Paris on Wednesday. The voice of the French press,” Macron told Akbar, who was surrounded by his family.
