Boss of Miss Rwanda organization arrested for alleged crimes of sexual assault
The Miss Rwanda pageant is very popular in East Africa.
© YouTube/Miss Rwanda (screenshot)
Text by: Claire Fages Follow
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After the Miss case in Senegal at the end of 2021, the Miss Rwanda contest is in turn in the crosshairs of justice.
The boss of the organization, Dieudonné Ishimwe, was arrested on Tuesday April 26 in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.
He is suspected of sexually assaulting former contestants in the beauty pageant.
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The prosecution will be seized in due time, specifies the spokesman of the Rwandan Bureau of Investigation.
In the meantime, Dieudonné Ishimwe, the boss of Inspiration Back Up, the company that organized the Miss Rwanda event, is being held at the Remera police station in Kigali.
He was arrested on April 26.
According to some sources, up to seven women, former candidates for the beauty pageant, have testified to having been sexually assaulted by this 36-year-old man, a former musician, who owned and managed since 2015 the organization of the pageants. in Rwanda.
A very popular competition in East Africa, which crowned Nshuti Muheto last March.
► To read also: Senegal: the Miss Senegal scandal agitates the country
Last February, the Rwandan investigative journalist Samuel Baker had, in a tweet, evoked “
the untold story on Miss Rwanda.fr
”: “
The story is dark and many people will not believe it,
wrote- he
.
The story that the country and the world must know.
If you have a friend who has been to boot camp – as Miss Rwanda's selection camps are called – encourage them to talk.
»
There is UNTOLD story about @MissRwandaDotRW, the story that is dark and a lot of people won't believe.
The story that the Country & the world need to know!!
If you have a friend who has ever gone to the boot camps encourage her to #SpeakingOut.
#MissRwanda2022 pic.twitter.com/dKFV1F5RuD
— Samuel B. Baker, PI (@SamuelBaker_B) February 17, 2022
The arrest of Dieudonné Ishimwe comes a few days after the resignation of its director of communication, a former Miss Rwanda, Meghan Nimwiza, without it being known for the moment whether there is a link with the legal case in Classes.
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