She is often presented,

as one of the leaders of the "akazu", the first circle of Hutu power which, according to its accusers, planned and orchestrated the genocide of the Tutsis, which made more than 800 people.

000 dead in 1994

The widow of President Habyarimana, 78

, has been the target since 2008 by an investigation in France into her role during the 1994 genocide, launched following a complaint from the Civil Party Collective for Rwanda,"

Le Monde Afrique

As part of this procedure, she was placed in 2016 under the status of assisted witness, intermediary between witness and indicted, and has not been questioned since on the facts.

Agathe Habyarimana invoked the "unreasonable delay" of the investigation to ask the judges to close their investigations.

They had rejected his request in November, arguing in particular that investigative acts were "in progress".

She then appealed.

For his lawyers,

World Africa

 " is a folder in which one has no new element for five years and not more since his request for dismissal last year. This is a deplorable situation , they continue, because this blocks any possibility of regularizing his administrative situation ".

Installed in France since 1998, Mrs. Habyarimana is in fact without legal status,

since France refused in 2011 her extradition to Rwanda, without however granting her asylum because of the suspicions on the role she has. could play in one of the worst tragedies of the twentieth

century.

it is more than 20 years that the survivors of the genocide and the Rwandan authorities wonder why Agathe Habyarimana continues to escape justice

the French justice has opposed 42 times to her extradition to Rwanda

spending happy days in her villa in Courcouronnes (in the Paris suburbs), surrounded by part of her family, which is far from being the case for many genocide survivors

French justice gives the impression of walking on eggshells and satisfies no one. Neither Agathe Habyarimana's lawyers nor those of the civil parties. Some do not even hesitate to question the political reasons for this stop. They are perhaps not wrong when we know that recently France is doing its utmost to get closer to the Kigali regime.

(...) In other words,

Le Pays

France, which, as we know, has already clearly refused to extradite the widow of Juvénal Habyarimana, does not want to add to Kigali's anger by ostensibly refusing to open a trial against her on its soil.

We still remember that a few years ago, the French authorities, to wink at Kagame, rejected Lady Habyarimana's asylum request.

In fact, this is quite simply a troubled politico-diplomatic game against a background of manipulation of justice, the outcome of which is difficult to predict

the first and essential step in the march towards the new Mali will undoubtedly involve the relentless fight against corruption and delinquency. financial, have become a mode of governance.

(…) The elites have betrayed the country,

so the people demand justice from the traitors. Now, the steamroller of Justice is on

: two big bosses, a former Prime Minister and a former Minister of Finance have been sleeping in prison since last Thursday for embezzlement of public funds. They will soon be joined by others for the same reasons,

Two other former prime ministers were summoned by the Supreme Court.

That all those who embezzled the Malian taxpayer's money be tried and condemned