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,` one of Kabuye`s lawyers, Bernard Maingain, said Friday.

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

She is suspected along with eight other people in connection with the assassination, which became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide that started a few days later and left at least 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu Rwandans dead, according to the United Nations.

Kagame and his Tutsi-led government have strenuously denied that Kabuye and the other suspects were responsible for shooting down the plane and instead blame Hutu extremists, who they say were looking for a pretext to start the genocide.

The arrest 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.

A former mayor of Kigali, Kabuye is one of the leading members of Kagame`s Rwandan Patriotic Front party and his close aide.

A source close to the case said Kabuye`s arrest `will give her and the Rwandan state ... the opportunity to launch a counter-attack.`

Her lawyer, Leon-Lef Forster, said the arrest would advance her case and that of the eight others as it would allow them to demand for the `judges to be moved on the ground before they complete their enquiry.`

French judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere issued the warrants against Kabuye and eight other Kagame aides in 2006, prompting Kigali to break diplomatic ties with Paris.

France and Rwanda blame each other over who bears moral responsibility for the genocide.

Rwanda has complained that France and other European countries are pursuing the victims of the genocide rather than the perpetrators.

`You cannot have France or any other country thinking it has the right to exercise its judicial powers beyond its borders to cover other sovereign entities,` Kagame said on Wednesday.

When Bruguiere started probing the role of then rebel leader Kagame in Habyarimana`s death, Rwanda hit back with a 500-page report accusing France of having actively supported the genocide perpetrators.