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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

France finally acts to deliver justice in infamous Dreyfus case

Alfred Dreyfus stands with a group of soldiers at a military ceremony in Paris.
Alfred Dreyfus, second from right, at a military ceremony in Paris marking his rehabilitation in 1906. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

More than a century ago he was wrongly convicted of treason in a case that convulsed France and laid bare a rising tide of antisemitism.

On Monday, French politicians took the first step towards remedying the injustice – unanimously backing a symbolic effort to promote Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish French army captain, to brigadier general.

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