This archive report was first published on 19 May 2020.
Felicien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, is set to face justice after being arrested in Paris on Saturday, May 16, 2020. He is scheduled to be arraigned in court on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
According to his French lawyer, Emmanuel Altit, Kabuga will be presented in court for the initial plea hearing, where the court will set out the legal process before passing the case to investigative judges within eight days, as stated by Altit in a Reuters interview on Monday, May 18, 2020.
Kabuga is accused of financing the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and faces 11 counts, including genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, complicity in genocide, and direct and public incitation to commit genocide, among other charges.
His arrest was made possible by tracking his children's phone signals, which led the French police to a third-floor flat in a well-off neighborhood in Paris, where Kabuga was living.
He was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1998 and an arrest warrant was issued a year later.
