The National Assembly votes unanimously the elevation of Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of “brigade general” | EUROtoday

The deputies accepted unanimously on Monday, June 2, a invoice by Gabriel Attal, “Raising Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of brigade general”A “Act of reparation” geared toward finishing his rehabilitation, 130 years after his conviction. The textual content was adopted at first studying by all the 197 deputies current. Rapporteur Charles Sitzenstuhl (Renaissance) praised a vote “Who will stay in history” and known as senators “To quickly seize the text”.

“Promoting Alfred Dreyfus today to the rank of brigadier general would constitute an act of compensation, recognition of his merits and a tribute paid to his republican commitment”had underlined the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine and president of Renaissance within the explanatory motifs of the textual content.

And this in a context the place “The anti -Semitism that struck Alfred Dreyfus does not belong to a bygone past”and the place the “Republic must constantly reaffirm his vigilance, his firmness, his absolute commitment against all forms of discrimination”he notes.

Full rehabilitation

In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced for betrayal and compelled to exile on the island of the satan in Guyana, on the idea of false accusations fueled by anti -Semitism very anchored in French society on the finish of the nineteenth century^e century.

In 1906, a judgment of the Court of Cassation harmless, inflicting IPSO Facto its reintegration into the military. In the method, a regulation appoints him squadron chief with impact on the day of the promulgation of the regulation. Alfred Dreyfus himself requested to see his profession revalued, with out successful, and left the military in 1907-before serving once more throughout the Great War.

The query of full and complete rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus “Has long been hidden and ignored, outside of his family and specialists in the case”notes Mr. Sitzenstuhl. A step was taken in 2006, throughout a tribute from the nation in his honor: the President of the Republic Jacques Chirac acknowledges that ” justice [ne lui] was not completely rendered “, and that he might” benefit[r] of the career reconstruction to which he was entitled “.

The Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly evokes it in flip in 2019. Two years later, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron estimates that he returns “Undoubtedly to the military institution, in a dialogue with the representatives of the French people” to nominate Dreyfus General posthumously.