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PARIS (AP) - Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to Paris after a French judge issued international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president, the embassy said Friday.
Ambassador Emmanuel Ndagijimana left Paris late Thursday to return home for consultations, diplomat Parfait Gahamanyi said. The officials targeted by the French judge are close to Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame, and the decision has raised new tensions between the two countries.
The French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere suspects the nine were responsible for plotting the assassination or actually shooting down then-President Juvenal Habyarimana's airplane on April 6, 1994 — an act that sparked the country's genocide.
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