PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On a recent visit to Paris, I visited a monument dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, which bore the year 1985. I was moved by the inscription, which read in capital letters; "HOMMAGE TO CAPTAIN DREYFUS)," followed by the words, "Si tu veux que je vive, fair moi rendre mon honour." (If you want me to live, restore my honour); Wikipedia informs us (link below) that the statue, located at La Place Pierre Lafue, was created by French artist Louis Mitelberg - and that the words in the inscription were taken from a letter Dreyfus wrote to his wife Lucie, when he was detained on Devil's Island. With yesterday's validation by the French Senate, Brigadier General Dreyfus's honour is officially restored forever. Bravo!
Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hommage_au_capitaine_Dreyfus
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BACKGROUND: From a previous post of this Blog: "Brigadier General Alfred Dreyfus: (Tainted handwriting comparison): Major (Welcome) Development: The Government of France has moved to honour this victim of anti—semitism within the French army with a posthumous promotion over a century after his wrongful conviction, The Algemeiner reports, noting that: "In 1894, Dreyfus, a 36-year-old army captain from the Alsace region in northeastern France, was accused of leaking secret information to a German military official and was put on trial amid a fierce antisemitic media campaign. Despite a lack of evidence, Dreyfus was convicted of treason based on a handwriting comparison with a document found in a German official’s wastepaper basket in Paris, sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island in French Guiana, and stripped of his military rank. Years later, French Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, then head of military intelligence, secretly reopened the case and uncovered that the handwriting on the incriminating document belonged to another officer. But when he brought this evidence to the army’s general staff, Picquart was dismissed from his post and imprisoned for a year."
https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/7803064816570184084
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STORY: 'Dreyfus becomes a general – after 90 years," by The Sweden Herald, one December 6, 2025.
GIST: "The protagonist of France's most famous legal scandal is promoted to brigadier general – 90 years after his death.
"The French nation posthumously elevates Alfred Dreyfus to brigadier general," reads the extremely short law that was finally voted through in the upper house of the French parliament, the Senate, on Thursday.
Dreyfus was convicted of espionage in 1894 and formally acquitted only in 1906, after it was discovered that he had been used as a scapegoat instead of the real perpetrator. The case became widely publicized, not least after the writer Émile Zola gave him his support in a famous polemic entitled “J'accuse...!” (I accuse).
Dreyfus later returned to the army and died as a lieutenant colonel in 1935.""
The entire story can be read at:
https://swedenherald.com/article/dreyfus-becomes-a-general-after-90-years
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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