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20/11/2008Rwandan official arrives in Paris despite protests

Presidential aide Rose Kabuye has been extradited from Germany to France Wednesday where she will be questioned on her role in downing the plane that killed Rwandan ex-president.

20 November 2008

PARIS – French officials took custody Wednesday of an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president charged over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, amid mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

Germany extradited Rose Kabuye, a former guerrilla leader who now serves as chief of protocol to President Paul Kagame, 10 days after police acting on a French warrant arrested her as she arrived at Frankfurt airport.

French officials took charge of her in Frankfurt, and she was flown to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris aboard an Air France jet.

From there she was transferred to the main law courts in Paris, where she was to appear before anti-terrorism investigating magistrate Marc Trevidic, Kabuye's lawyer Bernard Maingain told AFP.

Trevidic was to decide whether to charge Kabuye with "complicity in murder in relation to terrorism" and whether to remand her in custody pending an eventual trial, prosecutors said.

French investigators suspect Kabuye, 47, of involvement in the downing of a plane that killed presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi and two French pilots on 6 April 1994.

Habyarimana's ethnic Hutu supporters went on the rampage following the attack, slaughtering 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu men, women and children in a horrific 100-day orgy of bloodletting.

French investigators accuse Kagame's Tutsi rebels of attacking the jet, although other observers have speculated that Hutu hardliners killed their own president to serve as a pretext for the subsequent killings.

Kabuye was a senior military leader during Kagame's successful war to drive out the genocidal Hutu militias, and the arrest of his trusted lieutenant has cast a fresh chill on already frosty ties with France.
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