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J’accuse: Fighting Antisemitism in France with a Retrospective Promotion for Jewish Army Officer

TEC News / AFP November 18, 2025

For now at least, the French state appears to be standing up to growing antisemitism by using Alfred Dreyfus as a symbol.

An entrance of the Remire-Montjoly prison on the sidelines of France' Justice minister official trip in French Guiana on May 19, 2025. On May 17, 2025, Justice minister announced that a 500-place high-security prison would be opened by 2028 in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, in the heart of the Guiana jungle, to house prisoners serving the longest sentences for drug trafficking as well as radicalised inmates.

New Prison in French Guiana Will Not Fix the Failing Justice System

Hélène de Lauzun May 21, 2025

This is a symbolic and popular measure that does little to hide the general weakness of the French prison system.