An ex-dean of a medical school charged in Paris-Liberation
The former dean of a faculty of medicine in Rwanda was indicted on Friday February 28 in Paris, suspected of having participated in the Tutsi genocide in 1994, Have we learned from the investigation on Saturday. The National Anti -terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) has confirmed that a man « Domiciled in France » Was indicted on Friday for genocide, crimes against humanity and understanding for the commission of these crimes, then placed under judicial supervision.
He « Is implicated for his presumed participation in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994, made within the prefecture of Butare »in the south of the country, according to the PNAT. The anti -terrorist prosecutor's office had requested a house arrest under electronic bracelet. From April to July 1994, the genocide in Rwanda, orchestrated by the Extremist Hutu regime, made 800,000 dead, members of the Tutsi or moderate Hutu minority.
According to two sources close to the investigation, the person under investigation is Alphonse K., born in 1951 and naturalized French, who was a doctor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Butare in the spring of 1994. He had been placed in police custody on Tuesday, as part of a preliminary investigation opened by the PNAT, November 13, 2024, entrusted to the central office against humanity against humanity (OCLCH), according to the PNAT. He is prosecuted for « His involvement in the facilitation of the genocide, or in any case his lack of opposition to these facts »according to another source close to the investigation.
« If Rwanda did not exist, the crime against humanity (from the Paris court) would be unemployed »reacted the lawyer for Alphonse K., Me Marcel Ceccalldi. According to him, this pole behaves « As an zealous executive agent of the Rwandan regime » From the current president Paul Kagame, who led the Tutsi rebellion of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) at the time.
According to a source close to the file, the investigation was opened after the name of Alphonse K. appeared during two recent trials in Paris, including that ofEugène Rwamucyo, doctor-teacher at the University of Butare, Sentenced to 27 years of criminal imprisonment on October 30, 2024. According to two sources close to the investigation, Alphonse K. is suspected of having called to attack the Tutsi minority at a meeting on May 14, 1994 in Butare, in the presence of Jean Kambanda, Prime Minister of the Interim Government, instituted after the attack on the plane of President Hutu Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994.
He would have given a speech « Equally genocidal » That that of Kambanda, can be read in the motivation, accessible online, of the verdict of the Paris Assize Court who sentenced, in December 2023, to 24 years of criminal criminal Sosthène Munyemana, another former Rwandan doctor. According to one of the sources close to the investigation, there is a « Transcription » words from Alphonse K., whom he disputes to have pronounced.
He is also accused of having, in the Butare hospital, given instructions aimed at « Extermination or deportation » Patients, refugees or Tutsi staff, according to the same source. Arrived in France in 2000, according to another source close to the file, he was not prosecuted by the International Tribunal for Rwanda (TPIR).
