{"id":120980,"date":"2025-05-07T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=120980"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:51:44","slug":"07-00-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=120980","title":{"rendered":"French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus in Symbolic Act of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus in Symbolic Act of Justice<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ailin Vilches Arguello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Alfred Dreyfus. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A group of French lawmakers on Tuesday put forward a proposal to promote\u00a0Alfred Dreyfus<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of espionage in the late 19th century \u2014 to the rank of brigadier general, more than a century after his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is leading the initiative, said the law would \u201cconstitute an act of reparation, a recognition of [Dreyfus\u2019s] merits, and a tribute to his republican commitment,\u201d in an effort to rectify the wrongful conviction, which unfolded amid widespread antisemitism across the country at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFive years of exile and humiliation irreparably harmed his military career,\u201d Attal said. \u201cIt is undeniable that, had it not been for this injustice, Alfred Dreyfus would have naturally ascended to the highest ranks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Attal, the proposed legislation would also signal that the fight against antisemitism remains urgent, as France has seen a rise in antisemitic hate crimes following the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas\u2019s invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe antisemitism that targeted Alfred Dreyfus is not in the distant past,\u201d Attal said in a draft proposal set to be presented to the French parliament. \u201cToday\u2019s acts of hatred remind us that the fight is still ongoing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no set date yet for a vote on the proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1894, Dreyfus, a 36-year-old army captain from the Alsace region in northeastern France, was accused of leaking secret information to a German military official and was put on trial amid a fierce\u00a0antisemitic media campaign<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the lack of evidence, Dreyfus was convicted of treason based on a handwriting comparison with a document found in a German official\u2019s wastepaper basket in Paris, sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil\u2019s Island in French Guiana, and stripped of his military rank.<\/span><\/p>\n

Years later, French Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, then head of military intelligence, secretly reopened the case and uncovered that the handwriting on the incriminating document belonged to another officer. But when he brought this evidence to the army\u2019s general staff, Picquart was dismissed from his post and imprisoned for a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1899, Dreyfus was brought back to France for a second trial, where he was again found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, before ultimately receiving a pardon \u2014 though the charges against him were not formally overturned.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was seven years later, in 1906, when Dreyfus was officially exonerated after the French High Court of Appeal overturned the original verdict and reinstated him with the rank of major.<\/span><\/p>\n

He lived until 1935, dying at the age of 76.<\/span><\/p>\n

France is home to the largest Jewish population after Israel and the United States, as well as the largest Muslim community in the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitism in France\u00a0continued to surge to alarming levels<\/a>\u00a0across the country last year, with 1,570 incidents recorded, according to a report by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) \u2013 the main representative body of French Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0total number of antisemitic outrages<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 was a slight dip from 2023\u2019s record total of 1,676, but it marked a striking increase from the 436 antisemitic acts recorded in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

In late May and early June, antisemitic acts rose by more than 140 percent, far surpassing the weekly average of slightly more than 30 incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report also found that 65.2 percent of antisemitic acts last year targeted individuals, with more than 10 percent of these offenses involving\u00a0physical violence<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

One such incident occurred in June, when\u00a0a 12-year-old Jewish girl was raped<\/a>\u00a0by three Muslim boys in a Paris suburb. The child told investigators that the assailants called her a \u201cdirty Jew\u201d and hurled other antisemitic comments at her during the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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