French judges have dismissed a long-running case against Agathe Habyarimana, widow of Rwanda’s former president, ruling there is insufficient evidence to link her to the 1994 genocide. The 82-year-old, who has lived in France since 1998 despite repeated extradition requests from Kigali, was accused of being part of the Hutu elite that orchestrated the massacre of 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis. Judges instead described her as a victim of the April 1994 attack that killed her husband and relatives and triggered the genocide. This decision, which follows a lengthy investigation initiated in 2008, likely ends her long legal battle, though anti-terror prosecutors are appealing the dismissal.
Le Monde
