The public prosecutor demanded that a former Rwandan gendarme, accused of having participated in the massacres of Tutsi civilians during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, be tried at the assizes in Paris for "
crimes against humanity
", told the
Minister of Justice
. AFP the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat).
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Detained in France for two years, Philippe Hategekimana, naturalized French in 2005 under the name of Philippe Manier, must be fixed within a month on the final decision of the investigating judges responsible for investigating the role attributed in the massacres to this former adjutant of the gendarmerie of Nyanza, in the prefecture of Butare (south).
