Trials of journalists working on the genocide of the Tutsi in the Paris court follow each other

to blame“public insult” Journalist Maria Malagardis was acquitted by a Paris court on Wednesday (March 15th) of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi by Rwandan military intelligence chief Alois Ntiviragabo. In a tweet, reporter Dan release arrested the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and the Ministry of Justice after an investigation media party in which Aloys Ntiwiragabo was located on the outskirts of Orleans.

“An African Nazi in France? Is anyone going to respond? »Then written by Maria Malagardis on July 24, 2020. In his opinion, that the world Was able to consult, 17^e The Criminal Court Chamber considers that the tweet “Participate (…) On the main general interest debate concerning the crimes committed during the Tutsi genocide and the prosecution of their perpetrators..

“This interpellation message was published by a journalist specializing in the issue, continues the room And his reaction is part of his commitment and his positions in the public debate about the prosecution of genocide. » The court also considers this“Despite its significant offensive allegation, it must be considered that this statement did not exceed the permissible limits of freedom of expression.”.

Journalists are not “specifically” targeted

The decision follows a hearing that took place two days earlier, lasting more than seven hours, still in the press room. On Monday, March 13, journalists Benoit Colombat, from the investigative department of Radio France, and Laurent Larchet, the newspaper’s Africa specialist. Month and the author of the book Rwanda, they speak (Seville, 2019), was prosecuted for complicity in defamation.

Guillaume Victor-Thomas, a former employee of the Spairops company, accuses them of spreading the testimony of a humanitarian worker who said that in August 1994 he witnessed the delivery of weapons manufactured by him at Goma airport (Zaire). The verdict will be handed down on May 23, almost a month after the new trial.

On April 20 and 21, Annie Faure, a doctor with the NGO “Doctors of the World” during the genocide, will appear after the complaint of Hubert Vedrin, who is also the author of the testimony in favor of Guillaume Victor-Thomas. In April 2019, on France Inter, he pointed to the responsibility of the former secretary general of the Elysée Palace in the Rwandan tragedy. “It is he who accepted or turned a blind eye to the supply of weapons and the protection of genocides”, she said.