Special rules will be formulated for the individual naturalization of Algerian Jews deprived of their French citizenship by the government’s revocation of the 1870 Cremieux Law, according to a decree published today. The decree excludes Algerian Jews from the general law for the naturalization of the native Algerian population.
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