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Genocide of the Tutsi: a former Rwandan gendarme sent back to the assizes in Paris

2021-09-24T01:44:47.746Z


A former Rwandan gendarme suspected of having participated in the massacres of Tutsi civilians during the genocide in Rwanda has been referred to a court ...


A former Rwandan gendarme suspected of having participated in the massacres of Tutsi civilians during the genocide in Rwanda has been referred to an assize court in Paris, AFP learned Thursday from the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat).

Two investigating judges from the Paris judicial court on Monday ordered a trial for "

genocide, crimes against humanity and participation in a group formed for the preparation of these crimes

" against Philippe Hategekimana, naturalized French in 2005 under the name of Philippe Manier, specified the Pnat, which also deals with crimes against humanity.

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This former chief adjutant at the gendarmerie of Nyanza, in the prefecture of Butare (south), is thus the 8th accused returned to the assizes in France for crimes committed during this genocide, which left more than 800,000 dead according to the UN, mainly Tutsi exterminated between April and July 1994. "

The procedure is ongoing

", told AFP Me Emmanuel Altit, who defends him alongside Me Alexis Guedj and Me Fabio Lhote.

"

We will carefully analyze the arraignment order and file all necessary appeals

."

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Philippe Hategekimana, who disputes the facts, is suspected of the murder of dozens of Tutsi, including that of a bourgmestre who resisted the execution of the genocide in his commune, and of having "

ordered the erection of barriers

" on the springs of several Rwandan communes, "

by encouraging the civilians present to kill the Tutsi

", according to the order of the judges.

"

According to testimonies, he gave orders to the gendarmes who executed themselves and participated himself in operations and attacks

", write the magistrates.

Now aged 65, he left Rwanda after the genocide and arrived in France in 1999, where he obtained refugee status under a false identity.

Source: lefigaro

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