Demonstrators in Rwanda protest against the arrest of Rose Kabuye earlier this month [AFP]

Kabuye landed in Paris on an Air France plane after German police had handed her over to French officers in Frankfurt.

Kabuye was detained by German police on November 9 on a French warrant that connected her to the downing of a plane in which Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwanda's former president, was killed.

Habyarimana's death sparked the genocide which consequently engulfed the country.

Authorities in France began investigating the attack because the two pilots of the plane were French.

They suspect Kabuye of housing the Tutsi commando unit blamed for shooting down the plane.

Lef Forster, Kabuye's lawyer, has said that she denies involvement.

A French judge issued warrants for Kabuye and eight other associates of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, in connection with the plane crash in 2006.

Hutus killed more than 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis before fighters led Kagame drove them from the country.

His government claims that France armed the Hutu militias and former government troops who led the genocide.

Thousands of Rwandans had turned out to protest against the expected extradition in Kigali, the country's capital, on Wednesday.

Kagame had also condemned the arrest of his chief of protocol.

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