Over two months hearing the appeal trial, on Friday, the court ruled that Barahira and Ngenzi perpetrated crimes against humanity and committed Genocide crimes.
Both men were convicted on role in murder of Tutsi who had fled in Kabarondo Parish in former Kabarondo Commune which they both successively led between 1977 and 1994.
Ngenzi, 60 and Barahira, 67 had been convicted and handed life sentence by Paris Primary Court in 2016. During the hearing process, they had denied the charges.
In July 4th hearing, prosecutor Frederic Bernardo said that Barahira ordered and supervised people to kill Tutsi and he (Barahira) himself killed.
The prosecutor said that Ngenzi did not kill but supervised implementers.
It is the second genocide trial to be heard in France after the 2014 Capt. Pascal Simbikangwa trial who was handed 25 years in prison.
Ngenzi was arrested in 2010 while Barahira was arrested in 2013 in France.
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