{{France plans to hold its first trial resulting from the Rwandan genocide as the 20th anniversary of the attempt to eliminate the country\u2019s ethnic Tutsi population approaches, the lawyer who will prosecute the case said. }} <\/p>\n
Pascal Simbikangwa, who headed Rwanda\u2019s intelligence agency in 1994, is set to stand trial later this year or early in 2014, Simon Foreman told reporters at his office in Paris. <\/p>\n
Simbikangwa is accused of organizing and arming militias, torturing Tutsis and preparing lists of people to be killed. <\/p>\n
Simbikangwa\u2019s lawyers Alexandra Bourgeot and Epstein Fabrice said yesterday that their client denies all the allegations against him. They declined to comment further. <\/p>\n
The approaching anniversary makes the issue of the genocide suspects in France \u201cimpossible to ignore,\u201d Foreman said on Jan 18. <\/p>\n
France\u2019s judiciary would \u201chate to reach that anniversary\u201d without a trial, he said. <\/p>\n
Simbikangwa, who moves with the aid of a wheelchair, was arrested on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2008. He is being held in prison in France. <\/p>\n
First filed case against Simbikangwa was in February 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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