France breaks legal ground with terrorism inquiry rooted in racial motive
For the first time, France’s National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office, or PNAT, is looking into the murder of a 46-year-old Tunisian man as a potential act of terrorism “on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.” Over the weekend, one of his neighbours assassinated Hichem Miraoui, a hairdresser in a little community close to the […]
After decades, France moves to settle the infamous Dreyfus case
More than a century ago, he was wrongfully convicted of treason in a case that shocked France and revealed a rising antisemitic tendency. The first step in righting the wrong was taken Monday when French parliamentarians unanimously approved a symbolic move to promote Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish captain of the French army, to brigadier general. […]
