CPCR – Collectif des parties civiles pour le Rwanda Pour que justice soit faite

Letter to Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of France, on the 14 May 2017. Mr. President, You have just been elected to the Presidency, and this is why I, as the chairman of the CPCR (the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda) would like to address these few words to you. The association, created in 2001, aims to prosecute those living on French territory who are suspected of having participated in the Tutsis genocide in Rwanda in 1994. I do so on behalf of hundreds of thousands of victims whose cause we support. At the beginning of the election campaign, I …

Pascal SIMBIKANGWA is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. This is what was requested by the Attorney General...

Hearing of Mr. Gasana NDOBA, consultant. Hearing of Mr. Augustin IYAMUREMYE, Secretary-General of the SCR from 1992 to 1994. Interrogation of SIMBIKANGWA.

Hearing of Mr. René DEGNI-SEGUI, UN Special Envoy to Rwanda in 1994 (videoconference) Hearing of Mr. Theophile GAKARA, former “major de la gendarmerie”, teacher in Belgium.

Hearing of Jean-François DUPAQUIER, for the civil parties. Hearing of colonel Michel ROBARDEY, in Rwanda from September 1990 to September 1993, witness for the defense. Hearing of Mrs FOLL and Mr. JACQUEMIN, policemen in Mayotte during Pascal SIMBIKANGWAs arrest.

Hearing of Mr. Johan SWINNEN, former Ambassador of Belgium to Rwanda from 1990 to 12 April 1994. Hearing of Linda MELVERN, investigative journalist, for the civil parties. Hearing of Esther MUJAWAYO, survivor, psychotherapist, for the civil parties.

A delegation from Kigali (AERG/GAERG) led by EGAM attends the morning hearing in support of the civil parties. Thank you all. Hearing of Pierre PÉAN, journalist/writer, for the defence. Hearing of Renaud GIRARD, journalist at the Figaro, professor at the IEP of Paris (Institute of Political Studies). Hearing of Mr. Philippe CEPPI, swiss journalist

Report from René DEGNI-SEGUIs, UN Special Envoy in Rwanda. Hearing of Gaspard MUSABYIMANA, writer/editor, researcher, for the defense.

Hearing of Mrs Hélène DUMAS, researcher at the CNRS

Hearing of Mr. Stéphane AUDOIN-ROUZEAU, study director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Hearing of Mr Jacques SEMELIN, research director at the CNRS and teacher at Sciences Po.