France drops probe into 1994 Rwanda attack
PARIS: French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.
His death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide.
A French inquiry started four years later at the request of relatives of the French crew members who died.
A judge accused Tutsi rebels, led by the current president, Paul Kagame, of the attack; arrest warrants were issued for a number of people close to him.
The charges were dropped on 21 December, a judicial source said.
French prosecutors had recommended in October the charges be dismissed because of insufficient evidence. Lawyers for Habyarimana’s widow, Agathe, said they would appeal against the decision.
“We have to interpret this decision by French judges as a form of resignation faced with a political context which prosecutors did not know how to fight,” lawyer Philippe Meilhac said.
“Rwandan authorities have never sought to help bring the truth to light.”
– BBC
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