Rwanda: Freed ICC Suspect Detained in France

Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana was met by police and taken before a judge when he arrived in Paris after being released by the International Criminal Court, his lawyer said.

"Mr Mbarushimana was 'cordially' invited to accompany police when he get off the plane. He was taken to an investigating magistrate who is to notify him of his parole conditions," said lawyer Arthur Vercken. Mr Vercken waited in vain at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for his client to arrive from the Netherlands where he has been in ICC custody for almost a year, facing crimes against humanity and warcrimes charges.

Despite those charges being dropped, he is under investigation in France for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of about 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, hence the interview with the judge.

Mbarushimana, 48, had faced 13 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in The Hague, before ICC judges on December 16 dropped charges against him on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The crimes including murder, rape and persecution, were allegedly committed by his rebel Democratic Forces of the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2009.

The first defendant to be freed by the ICC, Mbarushimana chose to return to France, where he had been living since 2002 and working as a computer specialist, until his arrest on October 11, 2010 following an ICC arrest warrant. He has political refugee status in France.

His arrest arose from a probe into alleged Congolese war crimes referred to the ICC by the Kinshasa government in June 2004.

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  • Phiri
    Dec 23 2011, 23:19

    The ICC propaganda on this blog is threatening to weaken allafrica.com. People like to go on this website, but this "euro" push regarding the role that the ICC should play in Africa is totally unacceptable. The ICC has not been recognized by all countries in the world as some kind of supreme law. The USA, UK and others are not part of this foolish imperial and "euro" colonialism.

    Africans are independent people and must by judged by their own judicial system. The ICC does not represent justice, but "euro" interests and imperialism.....

  • ras sideeq
    Dec 24 2011, 02:10

    BY BLACK BROTHERS AS WE CAN SEE AGAIN THE SAME REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE THEIR CHILDREN ARE MAKING A RETURN TO INHERIT THEIR ILLEGALY GAINED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE . THEY LIKE THE UNITED STATES ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CONVINCE AFRICANS THAT ARE NOT LITERATE THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHTEOUSS AND TRUE CONSTITUTION.. WELL I AM HERE TO SET THE LIE TO REST. FIRST WE MUST NEVER EVER TAKE OUR EYES OFF OF THEM.LISTEN KEENLY THEY ARE LIARS THIS IS WITHOUT DOUBT. WE SAW THIS IN COTE d ' IVOIRE ,THEN THEY GOT EVEN MOR EMBOLDEN BY THEIR SUCCESS AND DID THE SAME IN LIBYA. THEY SHOWED US WHO THEY TRULY ARE THEN ; THEY DESTROYED LIBYA AND BOMBED BLACK AREAS AND THE BROTHERLEADERS HOME TOWN CIRT TO THE GROUND. WHERE ELESE IN THIS GREAT WOR;D OF THE "ALMIGHTY GODS' THAT YOU FIND SUCH IN (JUSTICE) THESE WESTERN SLAVE NATIONS WHOM HAVE MURDERED OER 100,000,000 BLACK AFRICANS DURIBG THE SLAVE TRADE WHICH WAS EARTHS BIGGEST TRAGEDY TO DATE, THE EARTHS LARGETS EVER FEILD OF MURDERS AT WILL THE AGGRESSIVE AND INHUMANITY ONE TO ANOTHER EVER ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH; SOME THING FOR WHICH AFRICA NEVER EVER RECEIVED RAEPARATIONS , INSTEAD LOANS OF CORRUPTION WHERE EXTORTION WAS THE KEY.ELEMENT. THEIR GREED AND LUSTB FOR MONEY HAS LED THEM UP THIS PATH WHERE THEY BELONG. THIS IS NO JOKE THAT THEY ARE AT A LOST IN THEIR FINANCES THEY HAVE HAD LIFE SO EASY WHILE THEY CONDUCTED REIGNS OF TERROR ON GOVERNMNETS OF TYRANY OVER TH MANY BLACK NATIONS. OUR "ALMIGHTY GOD" IS REAL HE" DOES NOT SLEEP; HE " DOES NOT SLEEP.THE INJUSTICES WE CONTINUE TO FACE WITH THEIR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH THE KYOTO TREATY SHOWS THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO EVEN CONSIDER THAT THEY HAVE WRONGED US A PEOPLE AND AS THE FIRST HUMANS ON THE PLANET THEY FORGET THAT FROM ALL THINGS THE BLACK MAN PRODUCED. LET US GO INTO BIBLICAL HISTORY WHICH THEY REWROTE TO SUIT THEIR OWN AGENDA WHICH IS THE SLAVERY AGENDA. EVEN THOUGH THEYB SAID WE WERE HAMITIC FROM NOAHS SON HAM WE UST ASK OUR SELVES WAS NOAH WHITE OR WAS HE BLACK. THEY SAY WE FROM THE HAMITIC RACE WAS BORN TO BE SERVANST BECAUSE HAM SAW HIS FATHERS NAKEDNESS YET WHAT I DO NOT SEE IS HOW SOME BLUE EYED BLOND HAIR PEOPLE FATHERED ALL THESE RACES OF HUMANITY.THIS ALSO IS THE SAME SCRIPT THAT THE JEWS IN PALESTINE READ. HISTORY TEACHES US THAT WHITES LIKE THEW ALBINOS IN TANZANIA HAVE NO MELANIN. THIS IS IMPORTANT. WITHOUT MELANIN HOW COULD THESE BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYED PEOLE FATHER THE BLACK HAMITIC RACE. EACH AND EVERY SCVIENTIST WILL TELL YOU THIS IS A PHYSICAL IMPOSIBILITY.THERE IS NO PERSON ALIVE WHOM CAN BY ANY MEANS CREATE BLACK FROM WHITE. HOWEVER TO THE CONTRARY WE CAN CREATE WHITE FROM BLACK. AS WE SEE TODAY IN LARGE EVEIDENCE THE SO CALLED ALBINOS THAT THIS WORD IS NEW TO THIS MEDICAL JARGON WHICH WAS CALLED LEPEORSY IN THE TIME OF MOSES AND IN THE TIME OF JESUS. SINCE THE ADVENT OF WHITEV IMPERIAL SLAVERY THINGS AND WORDS HAVE CHANGED. LET US FAST FORWRD TO THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION WE HEAR THAT THEY HAVE THE MOST HONEST AND LEGITIMATE BALANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE PLANET. THEY ARE SO FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUSE NES THAT THEIR LONG ARM OF THE LAW CAN REACH FROM WASHIONGTON INTO ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND THEY MUST GET THEIR MAN , EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT GUILTY OF A CRIME YOU MUST GO TO PRISON. THIS IS FACT WITH ALL THEIR WESTERN ALLIES THEY WHOM WERE THE MURDERERS THE PIRTAES THE TORTURERS THE RAPIST THE PLUNDERERS THE CHILDREN MOLESTERS THE MOTHER AND FATHER KILLERS THE GENOCIDIST ARE NOW TODAY TO BE CONSIDERED THE MOST RIGHTEOUESS ON THE ENTIRE PLANET. THEYN WHO MAKES THE MOST INSIDIOUS WEAPONS OF WARS. HE WHOM HAS BEEN THE ONLY NATION TO DELVE INTO THE PRACTISE OF MASS DESTRUCTION WHERE THEY MUREDERD PEOPLE INJAPAN WITH UN PRECEDENTE TERROR ; THEY WE MUST BELIVE TO BE THE MOST SINCERE AND HONEST PEOL ON TH PLANET. THIS OF COURSE IS QUITE TO THE CONTRARY WHEN THE CONSTITUTION OF TH UNITED SATES WAS WRITTEN EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE STRONG BLACK ELEMENTS IN THEIR QUEST FOR FREEDOM, CRISPUS ATTUCKS LED THE RAID ON THE BOSTON TEA PARTY, PETER SLAEM LED THE CHARGE UP BUNKER HIL; IWANT PEOPLE TO CONSIDER THIS THE BLACK MAN PETER SALEM LED THE SURGE UP BUNKERS HILL TO FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM HE WAS AN AFRICAN HE WAS ENSLAVED BY THEM YET HE SHOWED THEM THE COURAGE TO GO FOR AND BECOME THE FIRST MARTYR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THEY HAVE NEVER HONOURED HIM AND GRACED HIS A MEMORIAL IN HIS HONOUR TO SHOW THE RESPECT AND GRATITUTDE THEY HAVE FOR THIS BROTHER FOR LAYING HIS LIFE DOWN FOR THEIR SO CALLED GREAT BASTION OF (IN) JUSTICE. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME WE WONT GO TO THE FACTS SURROUNDING THE COLUMBUS SAILING TO AMERICA BUT I IWL AGAIN MENTION ANOTHER GREAT AFRICAN BENJAMIN BANEKER WHOM WITH HIS GREAT VISION HE WAS THE SURVEYOR WHOM HAD VISISON AND SIGHT TO NAVIGATE THE METICULOUS DIMENSIONS TO WHAT WE SEE TODAY AS THE BIGGEST CAPITOL IN THE WORLD. PEOPLE COME FROM EVERY NATION TO TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES TO WASHINGTON D.C. THE NATIONS CAPITOL AND NEVER ANYWHERE IN WASHINGTON IS ANY HOMMAGE TO ANY OF THESE THREE GREAT AFRICANS WHOM WERE THE CHAMPIONS OF THEIR SO CALLLED LAND OF FREEDOM. WHAT WE MUST AGAIN BECOME AWARE OF IS THAT THOSE WRITERS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION WERE ALL REPUGNAT SLAVE HOLDRS THAT HELD PEOPLE AGAINST THEIR WILL FORCED THEM TO LABOUR FOR LONG HOURS AND WERE NOT PAYEDS A PITTANCE THEY WERE ALWAYS ALMOST NEVR TREATED WITH HUMANITY THEY WERE BEATEN TORTURED MURDERED TAKEN AS CONCUBINES IN FRONT OF THEIR HUSBANDS THEY WERE HUMILIATED ATEVERY TURN THEN THE BIGEST AND GREATEST INSULT TOA PEOPLE WHO HELPED THEM LIBERATE THEMSELVES A PEOPLE WHO LED NOT FOLLOWED WERE TRAETED LIKE ANIMALS AND THEN RELEGATED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FOOD CHAIN AND CONSIDERED THREE FIFTHS HUMAN WE AND THE GREAT APE WERE BROTHER AND SISTERS; HOW DDEP IS THAT. IN ALL THEIR HYPOCRISY THEY NEVER TRULY OBSERVED HOW THE BLACK MAN WAS CREATED THEY HAD SHORT HAIR AN SOMETIMES VERY LITTLE HAIR BUT THIS WAS THEIR EVOL;VEMNET THY DECIDED THAT THIS AS HOW THEY WOUL LOOK UN ATTATYRACTIVE AS THEY WERE CONSIDERED GODDESSES AND WHEN THE EVOLUTION OF MANY MEN BEGAN THEY WERE WELL SOUGHT AFTER. AS WE CAN SEE THRUOUT THE MIDDLE EAST THE ASIA ADN THE SOUTH PACIIFC. WE WONT GET INTO THATB EITHER. THE WEST AND THEIR LEADERS MADE APACT THAT ALL AFRICAN SHOULD BEENSLAVED THIS IS WHY WE HAVE BROTHERS THRUOUT AFRICA THAT WHICH NO LONGER TO BE BLACK THEY WANT TO MURDER AS MANY BLACKS TO SHOW WHITE PEPLE THEY ARENT BLACK. THIS IS CALLED SELF HATE. THIS WHERE WE THINK THAT THESE SLAVE HOLDERS AND EXTORTIONIST WHITEMALERS, CORRUPTORS , BRIBERS , COERERCERS ARE INDEED RIGHTOUSE MAN. THEY ARE MEN" OF EVIL INTENTION ONLY THEY WOULD AFTER ATRIAL WANT TO HOLD YOU IN CAPTIVITY AND PROLONG YOUR SUFFERING AS LONE THEY CAN AFFORD TO. IN THE UNITED STATES AND NOW COMMONLY IN EUROPE THIR JAISL ARE BEING MASSIVELY FILLED WEITH THE BLACK SKINNED YOUTHS THIS COVERS ALL THOSE WHO HAVE MELANIN. AFRICAN ARE BEING USED HOW?THEIR IS NOT ENOUGH EDUCATION TO ENLIGHTED THE YOUTHS AND THEN WHEN THERE IS EDUCATION IT IS DRIVEN BY WHITE SUPREMACIST WHO WNT TO EDUCATE THE BLACK YOUTHS INTO BELIEVING THEIR SUPERIORITY. THE WHITES HAVE ENDEARD UPON AFRICA A WHITE SUPREMACIST BELIEF SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES THEM WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREAT CIVILIZATIONS. SO AGAIN I SAY TO YOU WHEN THE HAMITES WHO WERE IN JORADN AND THE SO CALLED MIDDLE EATS BECAUSE ACCORDING TO HISTORY AND FACTS TO DFAY THE CAANANITES WERE INDEED FROM THE TRIBE OF KUSH THE CUSHITES AS WE KNOW WERE THE SUDFANESE AND THEY WERE THE GREATEST HUNTERS AND THEY FORMED THE FIRST GREAT CIVILIZATIONS. WHEN ISRAEL WHOM WERE ALL BORN IN AFRICA LET ME REMIND YOU THAT EGYPT IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE AN AFRICAN COUNTRY THIS IS AFRICA. VERY PAGE THAT DEPICTS THE GREAT TRAVELS OF ISRAEL SPEAKS OF THEIR BEING BORN IN AFRICA. EVEN IF THEIR WERE MANY CHILDREN OF FAIR SKIN IN ISRAEL WE KNOW THAT ABRAHAM CAME FROM CAANNAN HE WAS A CAAANITE WHICH PUTS HIM AGAIN AS THE CHILD OF HAM. WHICH AGAIN MAKES HIM A BLACK MAN. SHOULD WE FURHTHER SOJOURN IN EGYPT WE KNOW THAT THE SOUTH OF EHYPT WHERE TODAY HAS THE MOST PYRAMIDS AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ESCAVATED BUT HAS BEEN SUNK UNDER THE NILE BY GREAT HATING WHITE LEADERS THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING BUIT SPECULATE AND IN THEIR GREAT MISINTERPRETAION OF THE SCRIPTS THEY STOLE FORM AFRICA THEY HAVE WRITTEN THAT NOAH CURSED HAM SO HE WOULD BE A SLAVE ALL HIS L;IFE S THJSI IS WHERE WE GET THIS MADNESS AND THEIR BIGOTRY IN MAKING US THE INFERIOR ONES TO THEM. WHEN WE INDEED ENCOURAGE THEIR ICC COURTS OF JUSTICE THY [PLAY US THAT AND KEEP US INSUBORDINATE TO THEM . THEY ALLY TO THE FACT THAT THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN GIVE US JUSTICE. HOW CAN SOME SLAVE DRIVING RACE HATERS FRAUDSTERS COME TO EVEN THINK THEY NOW WHAT JSUTICE IS THEY WHOM WNAT US T LIVE LIKEW THEM IN SODOMY AND SHAME. THEY WHO WANTS US TO BELEIVE THAT WHEN THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN THAT THE BLACK MAN WHO FOUGHT LED AND DIED FOR THEM WOULD BE RELEGATED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE AMERICAN DREAM WHO ARE THEY THAT KNOWS NO RIGHTOUSENESS BUT ARE IN FACT THE SIGNATORES WITH THE DEVIL TO GAIN THIS GREAT MASSIVE POWER TO FOOL THE WORLD TO LIVE INIQUITY AND ABOMINATION WHO ARE THEY? AFRICA MSUT NEVER EVER BECOME A TOOL OF THESE LIARS AND BARBARIANS WHOM HAVE NEVR EVER BEEN CIVILISED THEY HAVE EARNED THE ARTS OF MURDER THEFT AND DECEPTION WHICH ARE ALL NEGATIVES THY CAN NEVER EVER SEE THE LIGHT. WE MUST ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TOBE MINDFUL OF THESE PREDATORS WHEN THEY COME TO YOUR COUNTIES WITH THEIR PAER MONEY WHO IN AFRICA HERARD OF PAER MANET GLORIFYING SOME DEAD GUYS. WE HAD THE MONETARY SYSTEM THAT WS GOLD DIAMONS SILVER AND THE REST WHO REALY ARE THESE PERPETRATERS? OUR CHILDREN MUST STAY FAR FROM THEM THEY COME WITH EVIL INTENTIONS THEY WANT YOU TO SE4EL YOUR CHILDREN FOR THEIR PAPER, THEY WANT TO USE YOUR CHILDREN INDECENTLY THEY TRY TO KEEP YOU IN POVERTY SO THYEY CAN INFILTRATE THE MINDS OF THE YOUNG AND TECH THEM THESE IMMORAL ACTS OF REPUGANT MISDEEDS THESE WICKED AND VILE CONCIETED VAIN ACTS OF L;EWDNESS EROTIC ABOMINATION LUST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. WHEN WE LISTEN TO WHAT THEIR PLAN IS FOR OUR CONTIENET WITH THEIR FALS EPAPERS WE MUST LOOK AND LISTEN CAREFULLY THEY ARE DECIVERS THEY WANT OUR SOULS. THEY HAVE DOENNOTHING BUT LIEWITH THEIR TALES OF CHRISTIANITY WHAT CHRISTIAN YOU KNOW WANTS TO BE A CHAMPION OF SODMY THEY RE FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE PREACHERS. WE MUST LOOK AT THE SCTRIPTURES ND YOU WILL SEE THAT THE BIBLE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH AFRICA EVERYTHING THEY MAY TRY AND REARRANGE IT BUT THE TRUTH CAN NOT BE HIDDEN . WE MUST FIRST RECOGNISE THE GREAT LAND OF EGYPTAND WE WILL SEE THAT THESE WERE THE MILIONS OF BLACKS THAT LEFT EGYPT FORE RELIGOUS PERSECUTION ADD NOT SLAVERY. REMEBER THAT MAN HAD LEARNED ALL THE LESSONS OF MATHEMATICS SCINCE AGRICULTUREAND WERE ALL SCHOLLARS SO THERE WAS NO NEED FR SLAVES THIS IS ANEW PHENOMENM WHICH WAS CREATED BY TH INVASIONS OF WHITES FROM THE OUTSIDE AND ALSO THE GENGHIS KHAN OR KUBLAI KHAN. WE MUST BEALWAYS CONSCIOUS AND NEVER SUBMIT TO THEIR LIES AND MISINTERPRETATION OF HISTORY. "ALL PRAISES ARE DUE TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD" LET NO CREATION STEAL HIS THUINDER "JEALOUS" IS HIS NAME AND DO NOT FORGET THAT."HE" IS BUT ONE"

  • Pfize
    Dec 24 2011, 10:18

    Talking genocide,was the French military tried by the ICC for watching while the killings continued?Why are we Africans still so apologetic to people who are busy stealing our resources,treating us as slaves and treating us as animals?