French Gendarmes stand guard next to a prison van transporting Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, at the Paris court on May 19, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
The arrest of the most wanted genocide suspect of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Félicien Kabuga, 84, in a Paris apartment last week, highlights renewed French commitment to improve relations with Rwanda, long injured by allegations against each other on the genocide.
Prosecutors say that the long coming but dramatic end to the fugitive’s run from justice could not have happened if France—criticised for harbouring Rwandan genocide fugitives—had not co-operated in the surveillance and arrest.
