A parliamentary initiative to respond to an “injustice” of more than a century. Leader of Deputies Together for the Republic, Gabriel Attal presented a bill on May 2 to raise Captain Alfred Dreyfus posthumously to the general brigade range, we learn the magazine’s challenges.
Information that BFMTV.com can confirm on Tuesday, May 6 after consulting the text of the former prime minister.
“Today, promoting Alfred Dreyfus to the general brigade range would constitute an act of repair, recognition of their merits and a tribute to its republican commitment,” writes the latter.
“Five years of deportation and humiliation”
Erroneously accused in 1894, in a context of anti -semitism, having spied France to the service of Germany, Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to perpetual deportation on the island of the devil off the coast of Guyana.
Then, the elements demonstrate their innocence and “the matter” “exploded, trembling to French society, divided between” Dreyfusards “and” Antidreyfusards “. Among the captain’s support, we find in particular the writer Emile Zola, whose letter to President Felix Faure, entitled Accuse And published in Aurore, it has remained famous.
On the back of Guyana in 1899, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted again, before being finally cultivated shortly after. But it was not until July 12, 1906 that the Cassation Court canceled the sentence.
Reintegrated in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus is not, however, to what he would have had the right if his detention time had been interior in the calculation of his age.
“Alfred Dreyfus, far from giving in to bitterness after his reintegration, demonstrated unalterable patriotism and continued to serve France with self -denial. During the First World War, he resumed the weapons at age 55, participating in decisive battles such as Verdun and the Chemin wishes Dames,” he specifies Gabriel’s Attal in his text.
“But, five years of deportation and humiliation irreparably slowed down his military career. It is indisputable that without this injustice, Alfred Dreyfus would have naturally accessed the highest ranges,” he insists.
Similar text of socialist senators
The chief of the Renaissance also emphasizes that “the anti -Semitism that hit Alfred Dreyfus does not belong to a past past.” “Today’s hatred acts remember that this fight is still relevant.” A reference to the resurgence of anti -Semitic acts in France from Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Socialist senators have also presented a similar bill to rehabilitate the French officer. They remember that Dreyfus’s issue marked “the appearance of a new left, embodied by figures such as Jean Jaurès and Jules Guesde.”
“This modern left advocated a vision of the individual beyond the reducing categories, recognizing the wealth and universality of humanity, which retains all its value today,” they write.
Before the presentation of these bills, the first president of the Court of Auditors Pierre Moscovici, the former secretary of the Elysée Frédéric Salat-Baroux, as well as the president of Maison Zola-Musée Dreyfus, Louis Gautier had called Le Figaro on April 17 to do “finally completely justice in Drayfus.” “
Source: BFM TV
