Macron Warns of Resurgent Demons of Antisemitism as France Honors Alfred Dreyfus
Macron warned of rising antisemitism as a statue honoring Dreyfus was unveiled, while police evacuated about 300 people in a separate terrorism probe.
- On Sunday, July 12, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron led France's first national commemoration for Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, honoring the Jewish army officer wrongfully convicted of treason in the 19th century.
- Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of treason in 1894, then exonerated 120 years ago by France's highest appeals court. His case exposed deep-seated anti-Jewish bias within French military and government structures.
- Officials unveiled a bronze statue of Dreyfus outside the Court of Cassation during Sunday's ceremony. Charles Dreyfus, the 99-year-old grandson, attended and expressed "the deep joy" of seeing his grandfather honored.
- Calling antisemitism "the enemy of the Republic," Macron decried its resurgence. He urged displaying names of the "Righteous Among the Nations" on buildings where Jews were sheltered from Nazis.
- Hours before the ceremony, police evacuated 300 people in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles after discovering a suspicious vehicle with a military weapon near a synagogue. Prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation.
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France has held an annual commemoration for the first time for Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer who was wrongly convicted of high treason in the late nineteenth century. Exactly 120 years ago, the highest French court of appeal recognized Dreyfus’s innocence.
The Dreyfus statue, which had wandered in Paris for 40 years, returns to its rightful place before the French Supreme Court 120 years after its acquittal; an unveiling ceremony attended by his 99-year-old grandson, Macron, and others. The statue of Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), a French Jewish officer unjustly imprisoned after being accused of being a German spy amidst the frenzy of 19th-century anti-Semitism, has returned to its original location.
(Paris=Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Jin-won = The acquittal of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish officer unjustly imprisoned in the late 19th century on charges of being a German spy...
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Macron warns of resurgent demons of antisemitism as France honors Alfred Dreyfus
French President Emmanuel Macron is decrying the resurgence of antisemitism in France. He spoke on Sunday at the inauguration of a statue honoring Capt.
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