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  • A French-Rwandan former hotel driver is to go on trial in Paris from September for crimes linked to the Rwandan genocide, a judicial source told AFP on Monday. Claude Muhayimana, previously a driver at a hotel on Lake Kivu in western Rwanda, is accused of transporting Hutu militiamen to sites where massacres were carried out. His trial -- the third in France to be connected to the genocide -- is scheduled to run from September 29 to October 23. Muhayimana faces charges of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity "through aiding and assisting" such acts. The massacres were carried out at a local school and in nearby hills where members of the Tutsi minority had taken refuge. Muhayimana fled to France after the genocide and obtained French nationality in 2010. In 2014, he was arrested in the northern city of Rouen after a year-long investigation triggered by a complaint by the Collective of Civilian Parties for Rwanda (CPCR), which represents victims. His lawyer, Philippe Meilhac, told AFP that Muhayimana should be viewed in a "historical context". He is "neither a political nor a military leader, but an ordinary citizen who was caught up in the middle of chaos", he said. "I am convinced that the court will recognise his innocence." CPCR's president, Alain Gauthier, said: "We are delighted that this trial is going ahead, but we look forward to seeing many others, with senior figures." In the two other Rwandan genocide trials that have concluded in France, a former officer in the presidential guard, Pascal Simbikangwa, was given a 25-year sentence in 2014. In 2016, Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira, two former mayors in eastern Rwanda, were given life sentences. Twenty-nine investigations into genocide suspects were underway in early December, conducted by a special judicial unit based in Paris, which is empowered by law to carry out prosecutions of any individuals on French soil. Around 800,000 people -- Tutsis but also moderate Hutus -- were slaughtered over 100 days by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide. bl/mch/blb/mw/thm/ri/jv
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  • Rwandan genocide trial to open in France in September
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