a cikin watan Yuli na shekara ta 1897 dangin Dreyfus sun tuntubi shugaban majalisar dattijai Auguste Scheurer-Kestner don jawo hankali ga rashin tabbacin hujjoji game da Dreyfus. Scheurer-Kestner ya ba da rahoton watanni uku bayan haka cewa ya gamsu da cewa Dreyfus ba shi da laifi, kuma ya shawo kan Georges Clemenceau wani dan jarida da kuma tsohon memba na majalisar wakilai. A cikin wannan watan, Mathieu Dreyfus ya yi korafi game da Esterhazy ga Ma'aikatar War. A cikin Janairu 1898 abubuwa biyu sun tayar da lamarin zuwa gagarumar ƙasa: Esterhazy ya sami 'yancin cin amana (daga bisani ya aske gashinsa kuma ya gudu daga Faransa), kuma Émile Zola ya wallafa "J'accuse...!"
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