Paul Kagame's renewed accusations led Paris to boycott Monday's genocide commemoration ceremony in Kigali, but also sparked considerable soul-searching over the allegations in the French media.
Twenty years after 800,000 Tutsis and moderate hutus were killed in Rwanda, the country's president, Paul Kagame, has again declared publicly that France played a "direct role in the preparation of the genocide".
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