Suspected of having participated in the funding of the Rwandan genocide, Félicien Kabuga, 84, was arrested on Saturday outside Paris after several years of stalking. Following his arrest, he will be tried by international criminal justice. 

Ranked among the most wanted fugitives in the world, the alleged financier of the Rwandan genocide Félicien Kabuga was arrested Saturday morning near Paris after twenty-five years on the run, paving the way for a trial before international justice.

After years of stalking and several failed arrests, Félicien Kabuga, 84, lived under a false identity in an apartment in Asnières, in the Hauts-de-Seine. Searched all over the planet, it was even the subject of a reward: five million dollars had promised the Americans in 2002 for any information allowing its capture.

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Saturday morning, at 6.30 a.m., the gendarmes of the Central Office for Combating Crimes against Humanity arrested him with the support of the Ile-de-France observation and surveillance group and an intervention platoon from the republican guard. 

Several police services mobilized around the world

It was thanks to the cooperation between the Belgian, English, Europol and Interpol police that it was able to be located, 26 years after the Rwandan genocide. He will now have to face international criminal justice, which accuses him of having organized massacres, incited to commit them and of having financed and armed militias.

French proceedings are now under way so that he can hand him over to the United Nations as soon as possible so that he can be tried, probably in Arusha, Tanzania.