Rwanda's Kabuye in French custody on Wednesday: Paris

Friday, 14 November 2008

AFP

Rose Kabuye, aide to Rwandan president Paul Kagame, is pictured on November 7, 2008 during an emergency summit in Nairobi aimed at restoring stability in the conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rwandan President Paul Kagame's chief of protocol, Rose Kabuye, was arrested on November 9, 2008 in Germany under an arrest warrant issued by France, Germany's foreign ministry said. Kabuye is suspected of participating in the 1994 downing of a plane carrying former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death triggered a genocide. AFP PHOTO/ STRINGER

Rose Kabuye, the senior Rwandan official whose arrest in Frankfurt last weekend sparked a major diplomatic furore, will be transferred into French custody on Wednesday, officials and lawyers said.

`Everything is in order. She will be transferred to Paris on Wednesday,` Kabuye`s lawyer Bernard Maingain said.

Kagame`s chief of protocol Rose Kabuye was arrested in Frankfurt on a French warrant over her suspected involvement in the assassination of Rwanda`s former president, Juvenal Habyarimana, in 1994.

The move has caused a diplomatic furore, with African organisations condemning the arrest, which has been greeted by street protests in the Rwandan capital Kigali.

Rwanda withdrew its ambassador to Germany, and ordered Berlin`s ambassador in Kigali to leave over the row.