French officer Alfred Dreyfus was promoted Monday to the rank of brigadier general 130 years after he was wrongly convicted of treason due to anti-semitism in a case that rocked the country for years.

President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu signed the promotion into law after the lower house of Parliament unanimously approved it in June and the Senate supported it earlier this month.

It is widely seen as a symbol of the government’s declared determination to fight the antisemitism that has soared in France, as it has around the world, following the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 men, women and children in an invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked a two-year war in the Gaza Strip.