A French court on Wednesday handed a 27-year jail sentence to a former doctor accused of genocide in Rwanda, in the latest such verdict in France over the massacre, AFP reported.
Eugene Rwamucyo, 65, was found guilty of complicity in genocide, complicity in crimes against humanity and conspiring to prepare those crimes.
He was acquitted of charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Rwamucyo had been accused of aiding his country’s then authorities in 1994 to disseminate anti-Tutsi propaganda and of participating in mass murder by attempting to destroy evidence of genocide.
Rwamucyo’s trial is the eighth in France relating to the genocide in 1994, when an estimated 800,000 people – mostly ethnic Tutsis – were slaughtered.
Rwamucyo, who grew up in a Hutu family, was approached by anti-Tutsi militants in the late 1980s after his return from studying in Russia, according to prosecutors, who accuse him of then spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda.
Following an international arrest warrant issued by Rwanda, Rwamucyo was detained in May 2010 by French police following a tip-off by his colleagues in the Maubeuge hospital where he was working at the time.
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