PARIS (Reuters) – Felicien Kabuga, arraigned on charges of genocide associated to the 1994 Rwandan massacre of some 800,000 individuals, appeared prior to a French court on Wednesday, 4 days after his arrest following a quarter of a century on the run.
A French Gendarme, using a protective face mask, stands in front of the courtroom during the preliminary extradition hearing for Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga at the Paris courthouse, France, Might 20,2020 REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
In his first look in public in more than 20 years, the octogenarian was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair, dressed in jeans and a blue jumper and using a face mask.
Kabuga is accused of bankrolling and arming the ethnic Hutu militias that waged the 100- day killing spree versus Rwanda’