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

Hearing of Mr. André GUICHAOUA, background witness.

Examination of Mr SIMBIKANGWA Hearing of three medical experts

Court ruling on the invalidity request. Examination on SIMBIKANGWAs CV. Hearing of Mrs Julie LANDRY, personality investigator. Resumption of personality enquiry. Hearing of Bonaventure MUTANGANA, “brother” of SIMBIKANGWA.

The appeal trial of Pascal SIMBIKANGWA opened this morning at then Assizes Court of Bobigny. The media has spread the word : no one is there, almost. It is true that “the Tutsi genocide does not interest anyone”. The morning began with a brief examination of the identity of the accused. Then the President of the Court, Mr. Régis De JORNA, conducted a draw for 9 holder jurors and 5 alternate jurors who were then sworn in. The morning ended with the mention of the associations bringing the civil suits : the CPCR, FIDH, LDH, SURVIE and LICRA. A good …

The sentence of 25 years of imprisonment for “genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity” has been confirmed after the appeal trial held from the 25th of October to the 3rd of December 2016 at the Assize Court of Bobigny. Pascal SIMBIKANGWA has already been sentenced to the same sentence of the 14th of March 2014 after a two month trial at the Assize Court in Paris. Arrested in Mayotte for selling forged documents when he was already wanted by Interpol for genocide, the former captain of the Rwandan army, a member of the intelligence services of the Habyarimana regime, …

On the 14th of March 2014, the jury of the Assize Court of Paris, sentenced Mr. Pascal SIMBIKANGWA to 25 years imprisonment for “genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity”. His appeal trial will take place from October 25ft to December 9th and the Bobigny Assize Court. Mr. Pascal SIMBIKANGWA, who has denied all the allegations made against him, has made an appeal of his conviction ? It’s an opportunity for us to remember that in 1994, in Rwanda, over one million people were exterminated for being Tutsi. This first conviction was more recently followed by the one of Mr. …

Mr President, Gentlemen Councillors, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, It is with pride, but mostly humility that I stand before you in support of the interest of the Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda and the fifteen civilian individuals that we represent with my colleague Michel Laval. As we arrive almost at the end of this trial with, for me, a lot of emotion, I must admit that these two months of hearings were also for me, as for you I imagine, deeply upsetting… Upsetting as a lawyer of course, as a citizen, but also as a woman …

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  Tito BARAHIRA and Octavien NGENZI were found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.