RWANDA GENOCIDE: POLICE ARRESTS MOST WANTED SUSPECT HIDING IN FRANCE
Police have arrested Rwanda’s most wanted genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga in France.
Officials say Kabuga was one of the last key suspects responsible for the killing of around 800,000 people in 1994.
He was arrested today at dawn by the French law enforcement officers.
The public prosecutor's office and the police in a joint statement said Felicien Kabuga “has been sought by the judicial authorities for 25 years.”
According to the statement, Mr Kabuga, now aged 84, had been hiding in cooperation with his children while living under a false identity in Asnieres-sur-Seine north of Paris.
Felicien Kabuga, famed for being one of the wealthiest men in Rwanda is accused of financing the Tutsi-Hutus genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of people in 100 days.
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda indicted Mr Kabuga in 1997 on seven counts including genocide.
The French authorities say he would be transferred to The Hague to stand trial after completing all “appropriate procedures under French law."
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