Emmanuel Macron: France "could have stopped" the massacres but "did not didn't have the will" The French president, invited by his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, to Sunday's commemorations, will not attend. The Élysée announced, as of Thursday April 4, that he will speak on Sunday "through a video which will be published on his social networks" In May 2021, the French president's trip to Kigali, and his words there, sealed a rapprochement with Kagame.