Controversy Arises After France Rejects New Probe Into Former Rwanda President Habyarimana’s Killing
By Elite News Reporter
Controversy
has arisen after the French appeals judges rejected a request to reopen investigation
into the 1994 assassination of Rwanda's President Juvenal Habyarimana, which
sparked the genocide that killed over 800,000 people.
Families
of those who died when Habyarimana's plane was shot down, including
Habyarimana's widow Agathe, will bring a challenge to Friday's decision to
France's Supreme Court, their lawyers said.
The
appeals court in Paris had been asked to revisit a 2018 decision to throw out a
probe against nine members and former members of incumbent President Paul
Kagame's entourage in a case that has poisoned relations between the two
countries.
A
plane carrying Habyarimana, from Rwanda's Hutu majority, was shot down in
Kigali on April 6, 19...