![Rwandans have strongly protested against the arrest of Kabuye [AFP]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Africa/A/1/2/3/4/Rwanda-expels.jpg "Rwandans have strongly protested against the arrest of Kabuye [AFP]") | | Rwandans have strongly protested against the arrest of Kabuye [AFP] |
French judicial officials have charged a key aide of Rwanda's president over the assassination of a former president of the country, amid national protests over her arrest.
Germany extradited Rose Kabuye, 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. The French warrant connected Kabuye to the downing of an aircraft in 1994 in which Juvenal Habyarimana, then Rwanda's president, was killed. French officials took charge of her in Frankfurt, and she was flown to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris aboard an Air France aeroplane. From there she was transferred to the main law courts in Paris to appear before Marc Trevidic, an anti-terrorism investigating magistrate, Bernard Maingain, Kabuye's lawyer, told the AFP news agency. Under investigation Judicial officials confirmed that Kabuye was put under judicial investigation - in effect, charged - with "complicity in murder in relation to terrorism". She was later released on condition she not leave France without permission and appear when requested by magistrates, her lawyers said. ![Kagame, left, has condemned the arrest of his chief of protocol [AFP]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Africa/A/1/2/3/4/Kabuye.jpg "Kagame, left, has condemned the arrest of his chief of protocol [AFP]") | | Kagame, left, has condemned the arrest of his chief of protocol [AFP] |
"I'm not so scared because I am very innocent," Kabuye said on the France24 television news channel after being released. "I know that when I get a chance to explain what happened everything will be okay, so I am not scared." Habyarimana's death sparked a genocide which consequently engulfed the country. Authorities in France began investigating the attack because the two pilots of the aircraft were French. They suspect Kabuye of housing the Tutsi commando unit blamed for shooting down the jet. Hutus killed more than 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, before fighters led by 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 turned out to protest in Kigali, the country's capital, on Wednesday against the expected extradition.
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