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PARIS, July 12 (UPI) -- French President Jacques Chirac paid homage Wednesday to a Jewish French Army officer falsely accused of spying for the Germans in 1894.
The tribute was held in the courtyard of the École Militaire, where Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was publicly disgraced in 1895, the London Times reported.
"The combat against the dark forces of intolerance and hate is never won," said Chirac in a televised speed. "We must remain vigilant."
The Times said the remark was directed at the racial tensions that continue in France.
Dreyfus was an obscure captain at military headquarters in Paris in October 1894 when he was accused of selling military secrets to the Germans. There was no evidence against him but he was found guilty by a military court, largely because he was Jewish, the newspaper said.
The episode became known as "The Dreyfus Affair."
An appeal court exonerated Dreyfus on July 12, 1906, after he had spent four years at the notorious Devil's Island jail off French Guyana.
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