19th century
New accusation of ritual murder
1853·Damas
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notables arrested before consular intervention
A new accusation of ritual murder strikes Damas. Notables are arrested, before consular intervention brings the affair to a halt.
The swiftness of this intervention measures the effect of the precedent: what had once required a mission from Londres and Paris could now be obtained through a local approach. The accusation itself had not disappeared — it would return in Damas and elsewhere well into the twentieth century — but it now encountered an established counterpower.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Syrie
Correspondances consulaires européennes ; archives de l'Alliance israélite universelle.