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By MASHA MACPHERSON
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: July 12, 2026 astatine 12:08 PM
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron connected Sunday decried a resurgence of the ″demons of antisemitism″ that person darkened France’s past and present.
The French person and others were inaugurating a statue honoring Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, whose wrongful 19th period treason condemnation exposed profoundly rooted anti-Jewish bias successful France. Sunday marked 120 years since Dreyfus’ exoneration by France’s highest court, wherever the statue present stands.
Hours earlier the ceremony, constabulary evacuated immoderate 300 radical from the Paris suburb of Sarcelles due to the fact that quality services identified a suspicious conveyance containing a subject limb adjacent a synagogue. Sarcelles has a important Jewish population, and prosecutors opened a coercion investigation.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the conveyance contained a ″long subject weapon,″ and that it’s unclear if the limb was meant to people the Jewish community.
France is location to Europe’s largest Jewish colonisation and saw a surge successful antisemitic acts, including threats, vandalism and carnal unit pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks connected Israel and the ensuing warfare successful Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, accused Macron of further fueling antisemitism by deciding to admit Palestine past year.
“We cognize that the aged demons of antisemitism person ne'er wholly disappeared from our country,″ the French president said astatine Sunday’s ceremonial for Dreyfus, calling for changeless vigilance to forestall acts that ″target radical due to the fact that of who they are.″
Dreyfus, who was Jewish, was convicted of treason successful 1894 aft being falsely accused of passing subject secrets to Germany, and sentenced to beingness imprisonment. Prominent intellectuals, including novelist Emile Zola, argued that Dreyfus had been made a scapegoat by the French military.
He was cleared of each charges connected July 12, 1906 by the Court of Cassation, France’s highest court. Macron declared July 12 to beryllium a nationalist time of commemoration of Dreyfus’ innocence, starting this year.
After helium was exonerated, Dreyfuss rejoined the French service and served successful World War I. He died successful 1935.
Dreyfus’ 99-year-old grandson Charles was among those attending Sunday’s ceremony.
“I indispensable sadly admit that I would not person imagined, astatine my age, seeing antisemitism resurface with specified virulence successful our country,″ Charles Dreyfus said.
His sorrow, however, was tempered by what helium called ″the heavy joy″ astatine seeing his grandfather’s statue erected extracurricular the Palace of Justice, depicting Dreyfus proudly wielding a breached sword.
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Associated Press writer Angela Charlton successful Paris contributed to this report.
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