The President of the Republic was generally opposed to “revisiting the military hierarchy with today’s gaze”. But favorable in this case.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a new declination of the “at the same time”. Asked about a possible posthumous promotion of Captain Dreyfus, Emmanuel Macron responded no on the principle, while recognizing that this is a particular case, Tuesday, October 27, during a “Protestant Dinner”. ” / p>
“Does it belong to the President of the Republic to make Dreyfus a general, today? My answer in principle would be no,” first answered the Head of State, questioned by the Grand Rabbi of France Haim Korsia on this way of “repairing” the Dreyfus case.
“For a first reason, who would be to avoid trouble,” he smiled. “For a second, deeper, which is that we would then open a possibility to the President of the Republic to restore or degrade anyone according to the time. Because I will have tomorrow requests from a particular to degrade generals who have participated in colonization or a certain war. “” “The great risk is to revisit the military hierarchy or history, with today’s gaze,” continued the head of state, at Course of a Question-Response session with the room.
But Emmanuel Macron also judged this “singular” case. “The difficulty with the case Dreyfus is that you support your comment on an irrefutable reality that is to reconstruct the career that has been suspended,” he said.
A proposal to Florence Parly
“When hate comes out of bed in a society, it takes time to come back to it, just see the years that Dreyfus has lived after: forbidden to participate in the pantheonization of Zola, it is drawn on and we Whitens the author of the shot, “he raised.
However, Emmanuel Macron felt that it was not the President of the Republic to make such a decision. “But it is undoubtedly the military institution, in a dialogue with the representatives of the French people, who can do it, more than the president as a sovereign decision, like a fact of the prince. I think it would be inappropriate. But In Pectore (in my heart), it is, the leader of the armies that I am can tell you, “he concluded.
In July 2019, the Minister of Armies Florence Parly had opened the door to a promotion of Alfred Dreyfus. “One hundred and twenty years later, it’s still time that the armies give back to Alfred Dreyfus all the honor and every year that he has been removed. And I will personally watch it,” she said. The member LR Eric Ciotti, then favored his promotion to the rank of general.
After Tuesday inaugurated the Alfred-Dreyfus Museum opened in the Zola House in Medan (Yvelines), Emmanuel Macron participated in a charitable dinner organized by a network of Protestant entrepreneurs. The president of the Protestant Federation of France François Clavairoly has defended values like the welcome of foreigners and the sharing of wealth.