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| French police arrest Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga | French police arrest Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga |
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| Officers find African country’s most-wanted man living under false identity in Paris | Officers find African country’s most-wanted man living under false identity in Paris |
| Tje Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga has been arrested in the Paris region, according to the French justice ministry. | |
| Kabuga, 84, who was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnières-Sur-Seine, near the centre of Paris, had been pursued by authorities for 25 years before his detention on Saturday, according to the ministry. | |
| Kabuga is Rwanda’s most-wanted man. The US has placed a $5m (£4.1m) bounty on his head. | Kabuga is Rwanda’s most-wanted man. The US has placed a $5m (£4.1m) bounty on his head. |
| The Hutu businessman is accused of funding the militias that massacred 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. | The Hutu businessman is accused of funding the militias that massacred 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. |
| The arrest paves the way for bringing the fugitive bfore the court of appeal in Paris and the international court in The Hague. |