Aloys Ntiwiragabo, head of military intelligence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, has been under a preliminary investigation since Friday for "crimes against humanity", the national anti-terrorism prosecution said on Saturday (July 25th).

The investigation was opened following an article in Mediapart claiming to have found the former senior Rwandan official in France, near Orléans. The investigative media specified that Aloys Ntiwiragabo "also founded an armed criminal group, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, which ravaged Central Africa".

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) have in the past accused this man of having been one of the architects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which, according to the UN, caused at least 800,000 deaths, mainly in the Tutsi minority.

However, neither the ICTR, nor the French or Rwandan courts were looking for him today, said a judicial source.

With AFP

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