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Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of the former Rwandan president suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide, was heard by French justice on Tuesday (November 3rd). An extremely rare hearing in the context of the investigation into the role that former gendarme Paul Barrilà played in the massacres.
It had been years since we had seen Agathe Habyarimana in public, and this Tuesday she therefore appeared in court in Paris. Slowly but decisively, Agathe Habyarimana, 78, arrived at the court in Paris. Hat, shawl and long beige coat, she let her lawyer lead her to the examination council office.
She came out five hours later. A hearing under the status of an assisted witness, not to discuss his role in the genocide, an allegedly crucial role, but to talk about Captain Barril’s role. The connections between the Habyarimana family were discussed. and the former gendarme, explained his lawyer at the end. According to him, Agathe Habyarimana told how the former Élysée gendarme had offered him “his help in investigating the April 6 attack at a time when no investigation was launched or possible in Rwanda”. Free help said the widow.
Paul Barril is under investigation for “complicity in genocide”. The former soldier, who returned to security with African heads of state in the 1980s, is suspected of having provided the Rwandan interim government with weapons in May 1994, in violation of the UN embargo. A $ 3 million military training and consulting contract. Heard by the judge in May last year, the 74-year-old former police officer disputes the facts of Parkinson’s disease.
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