{{The French court, Thursday “ordered” to issuance of a residence permit to Agathe Kanziga.}}<\/p>\n
Kanziga is a wife to former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.
\nThe request of Ms. Habyarimana, 70 years old, “is the archetype of an application for stay to private and family life” felt Me Philippe Meilhac, because “she has no attachment to his country and all her family is in France.\u201d<\/p>\n
“We felt there were much political contingencies in this case,” the lawyer said, adding that the request of Mrs. Kanziga had been made “at a time when France and Rwanda readopted their diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prefecture of Essonne dismissed in May 2011 the application for a stay of the widow of the former Rwandan president, citing in particular “threat to public order” that would Mrs. Habyarimana. <\/p>\n
At the time, she was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued in October 2009.<\/p>\n
According to her lawyer, the extradition request by Kigali has since been rejected. <\/p>\n
Refusal to award her a residence permit was canceled by the Versailles Administrative Court in October 2011. <\/p>\n
Seized by the prefecture, the Administrative Court of Appeal upheld the original ruling in late November and “ordered” the issuance of a residence permit referred to Kanziga. <\/p>\n
“Mrs Habyarimana is often presented as one of the leaders of the” akazu “, the first circle of Hutu power which, according to her accusers, planned and implemented the genocide in which a million innocent ethnic tutsi were killed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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