Even police authorities sided with mobs against Dreyfus supporters.

Evidence

The crudest instance was that of the police prefect of Rennes, who advised Professor Victor Basch, when the latter’s house was stormed by a mob 2,000 strong, that he ought to hand in his resignation, as he could no longer guarantee his safety. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2161

Categorization

• XREF: State agents refusing protection to the targeted shows the collusion between state power and mob violence, a thread running through Arendt’s account of the mob-state alliance.