{Nkuranyabahizi Eugene, 41, a Rwandan who is accused of genocide from Rogaland will this week give evidence in Gulating court of appeal, Norway Media reports
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The goal is to avoid the extradition to Rwanda and rather get the trial in Norway.
The man came to Norway as a quota refugee in 1999 and settled eventually with family in Sandnes.
He was arrested and charged in May 2013 and demanded extradited to his home country shortly after.
In Rwanda, he is charged with participation in the genocide in April 1994.
It follows from international law that such matters should be pursued in the countries where actions have taken place that is where the evidence is. It is only in exceptional cases, where the countries are not able to directly follow the case though, that we take cases into Norway. Since Rwanda wants to prosecute the matter itself, we have a duty to verify whether the conditions are present, said police lawyer Per Zimmer in NCIS. He runs the case for the prosecution.
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