Overview

• Two investigating judges found insufficient charges to pursue complicity or conspiracy to commit genocide, ordering the case dismissed.
• The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office had sought her indictment and has appealed the non-lieu, with an earlier May 15 rejection of charges also under appeal.
• The inquiry began with a 2008 complaint by the CPCR, and Habyarimana has held assisted-witness status since 2016 after a probe that was closed in 2022 and later reactivated.
• Civil parties allege she belonged to the akazu inner circle, claims she contests, as the judges characterized her as a victim of the 1994 attack that killed her husband.
• Habyarimana, 82, has lived in France since 1998 as Rwanda has repeatedly sought her extradition, and any trial in France now looks unlikely pending appellate review.