Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga has been approved by a French court for transfer to a UN tribunal.
UN prosecutors accuse Kabuga of bankrolling and arming ethnic Hutu militias that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994.Laurent Bayon, one of Felicien Kabuga's French lawyers, speaks to reporters outside the courtroom.His lawyers say he would not receive a fair trial at the tribunal, which is based in The Hague and in Arusha, Tanzania.
They also argue his health is too frail for him to be transferred to the African country, particularly during a dangerous pandemic.Felicien Kabuga: Key Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in France after quarter-century chase But the court said his health was"not incompatible" with a transfer. The 87-year-old is currently being held in a Paris prison.
In a letter to the UN tribunal's chief prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, ahead of Wednesday's ruling, Kabuga's lawyers urged him to leave the case with France's judiciary."If you were to decide to assert the primacy of your jurisdiction over French jurisdiction, thus endangering the life of Felicien Kabuga, we would take the risk of renouncing on discovering the truth forever," Laurent Bayon wrote, citing Kabuga's medical history.
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