- The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) requested a trial at the assizes for the Rwandan doctor, Eugène Rwamucyo.
- This doctor was accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in Rwanda in 1994.
- Working at the Maubeuge hospital, he was suspended in 2009 when the management of the establishment learned that he was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (PNAT) asked for a trial at the assizes for the doctor Eugène Rwamucyo, AFP learned on Friday. Working at the Maubeuge hospital in the North, he was suspended in October 2009 when the establishment's management learned that he was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by Rwanda. He was then dismissed.
According to a judicial source, the PNAT "crimes against humanity, crimes and war crimes" center, in an indictment rendered on April 7, asked for the dismissal of Eugène Rwamucyo for "genocide", "crimes against humanity" "And" criminal association for the preparation of these crimes "between April and July 1994.
"There are no charges to justify a trial," said his lawyer.
It is now up to the examining magistrates of the Paris court to decide whether or not to prosecute Eugène Rwamucyo, 60, who lives in Belgium. In France, six other men accused of having participated in this genocide have already been referred to assizes, three of which to date have been tried and definitively sentenced.
"I am not surprised by the position of the prosecution, given that it displayed during the investigation and the fact that this is a sensitive case, said Philippe Meilhac to AFP, lawyer for Eugène Rwamucyo. Even if on the merits, it is a case where there are still no charges to justify a trial. ”
Instruction opened in 2007 in Lille
It was following a complaint against this doctor filed in particular by the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda (CPCR) that an instruction had been opened in 2007 in Lille, then disoriented in Paris, the following year. Eugène Rwamucyo is notably accused by Kigali of having participated in meetings of genocidal officials in Butare (southern Rwanda) in 1994, including one under the aegis of the Prime Minister at the time, Jean Kambanda, sentenced to life by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
The doctor, who denies any involvement in the genocide, was sentenced in absentia in 2007 in Rwanda to life. In France, it had been indicted for the first time in 2013 for "participation in an agreement to commit the crime of genocide", then in 2018 for "genocide" and "crimes against humanity", and placed under control judicial.
"I had filed a complaint against Eugène Rwamucyo in 2007" The Rwandan doctor had benefited from political support- Justice
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