France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'

France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'
Agence France-Presse
May 16, 2020Human Rights

Paris (AFP) - French police on Saturday arrested one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, describing him as its "financier" and one of the world's most wanted fugitives.Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint statement. The operation, carried out at dawn, resulted in the arrest of a fugitive "who has been sought by the judicial authorities for 25 years", the statement said.Around 800,000 people -- Tutsis but also moderate Hutus -- were slaughtered over ...

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