Sun 26 July 2020:
France has opened an investigation after a former Rwandan spy chief, wanted for alleged crimes against humanity, was found in France by an investigative news organisation.
Aloys Ntiwiragabo was tracked down by Mediapart to Orleans, a city about 100km south-west of Paris, after the international agencies failed to find him.
Ntiwiragabo is a former Rwandan military official, identified by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as one of the architects of the country’s 1994 genocide which claimed 800,000 lives.
Neither the ICTR, Interpol, France nor Rwanda were actively seeking him and had dropped arrest warrants years ago.
Investigation
France has opened an investigation into alleged crimes towards humanity by a high former Rwandan navy official, Aloys Ntiwiragabo, in the course of the nation’s 1994 genocide that killed a minimum of 800,000 people.
French investigative information website Mediapart tracked down the previous Rwandan spy chief, who was recognized by the Worldwide Prison Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as one of many architects of the genocide.
La France ouvre une enquête pour «crimes contre l’humanité» à l’égard d’#AloysNtiwiragabo https://t.co/maILS8wSrH
— Mediapart (@Mediapart) July 25, 2020
Neither the ICTR, Interpol, France nor Rwanda had been actively looking for him now and had dropped arrest warrants years in the past.
The revelation of his whereabouts comes barely two months after one other suspected genocide architect, Felicien Kabuga, was arrested on the fringes of Paris.
Kabuga, who evaded police in a number of international locations for 25 years, is accused of financing the genocide.
Kabuga had requested for a trial in France, citing frail well being and claiming the United Nations court docket in Africa could be biased towards him, and probably hand him over to Rwandan authorities.
France has long been considered a hiding place for wanted Rwanda genocide suspects and French investigators currently have dozens of open cases.
A plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana, from Rwanda’s Hutu majority, was shot down in Kigali on April 6, 1994, unleashing the killing spree that would leave mainly Tutsis but also moderate Hutus dead.
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