Emmanuel Macron declared: "France assumes everything and exactly that in the terms that I used" on May 27, 2021. The French president, traveling to Kigali, then said he had come to "recognize" France's "responsibilities" in the massacres.

“We have all abandoned hundreds of thousands of victims to this infernal closed door,” he admitted in a video broadcast on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The head of state declared on Sunday: “I have no word to add,no word to take away from what I told you that day”