A preliminary investigation was opened Friday July 24 for "crimes against humanity" against Aloys Ntiwiragabo, head of military intelligence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 who is believed to be living in France, the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor's Office told AFP on Saturday July 25.
The investigation was opened following an article from Mediapart claiming to have found him near Orléans.
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) have in the past accused this man of having been one of the architects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which, according to the UN, killed at least 800,000 mainly in the minority Tutsi. However, neither the ICTR, nor the French or Rwandan justice sought him today, specified a judicial source.