According to Agence France Presse, Callixte Mbarushimana, a former UN employee in Rwanda who was prosecuted in France for his participation in the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, is no longer worried, due to lack of evidence. He has benefited from political refugee status in France for 20 years.
French justice ends its proceedings against Callixte Mbarushimana. In an order dated October 1, an investigating judge from the “crimes against humanity” department of the Paris Judicial Court concluded that the case should be dismissed, in accordance with the prosecution’s requisitions, after analysis of “ the whole ” of the “ charging and discharging elements “. She considers that the charges against him are insufficient to bring him before an assize court. It notably highlights the various testimonies collected which are “ fluctuating ”, not enough “ accurate » and not enough « concordant ».
Indicted in 2010 for crimes against humanity and complicity, Callixte Mbarushimana, now 61 years old, is nevertheless still accused by several associations and victims of the genocide in Rwanda of being involved in massacres, of having drawn up lists of Tutsis to be killed and of having made available to the Rwandan Armed Forces and the extremist Interahamwe militias material from the UNDP, the United Nations program for which he worked at the ‘era. During the ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy last April, the Rwandan president for his part accused him of having handed over his cousin to killers, a woman whom Paul Kagame considered her sister.
the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda announces its appeal
Also prosecuted before the International Criminal Court in 2010, this time for crimes committed in 2009 in RDC while he was the executive secretary of the FDLR, the ex-UN employee was ultimately not tried there either, due to lack of evidence.
In France, the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda announces that it has appealed the dismissal of the case rendered by the courts. For him, the investigation which led to this decision remains incomplete: the collective asserts in particular that certain witnesses were not heard and that the information from an internal UN investigation report was not verified. . Contacted by AFP, Callixte Mbarushimana’s lawyer, Me Laurence Garapin, recalls that her client “ always proclaimed his innocence ».
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