Overview
- Two Paris investigating judges ordered a non-lieu for Agathe Habyarimana, ending the case for lack of sufficient charges.
- In their written order, the judges said there was no evidence she was an accomplice or part of a conspiracy to commit genocide and described her as a victim of the 1994 attack that killed her husband.
- The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office had sought a mise en examen after requesting renewed probes in 2022 and 2024, and its appeal of a May 2025 order remains unexamined.
- The investigation began in 2008 after a complaint by the CPCR, and Habyarimana has held assisted-witness status since 2016, reducing the prospect of a trial in France.
- Habyarimana, 82, has lived in France since 1998, Rwanda has repeatedly requested her extradition, and the United Nations estimates about 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide.