François Graner is one of the first to have access to the archives of the Elysee on French policy during genocide in Rwanda.

This researcher will be very attentive to the speech that Emmanuel Macron is to deliver on Thursday in Kigali, hoping on Europe 1 that it does not consist of a simple "mending between States".

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Emmanuel Macron is visiting Kigali, the capital of Rwanda on Thursday, with the desire to normalize relations between the two countries, strained since the terrible genocide of 1994. The President of the Republic, who should not officially ask for forgiveness in the name of France, should all the same endeavor to find the right words to seal a much-awaited reconciliation on the spot.

"Anyway, his speech will be moving and important, it will grow and grow the country," said Thursday on Europe 1 François Graner, research director at the CNRS, who is one of the first to have had access to the archives of the Elysee Palace concerning France's policy in Rwanda before, during and after the genocide.

But he warns that he will also judge the political significance of this speech. 

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