Rwanda genocide
French historian hands genocide report to Rwanda's Kagame
Kagame and Duclert met for an hour discussing the findings of the investigation after the president was handed his own copy of the thick report.
The archives concern the work of former president Francois Mitterrand and his prime minister Edouard Balladur between 1990 and 1904 when the genocide began, according to a statement issued in France's official journal which publishes government decrees.
A historical commission set up by President Emmanuel Macron concluded there had been a 'failure' on the part of France under former leader Francois Mitterrand over the genocide that saw around 800,000 people slaughtered, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority.
More than two decades after he was first indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Felicien Kabuga was arrested near Paris on 16 May.
Felicien Kabuga, who is 84 according to officials but claims to be 87, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run.
Rwandan investigators announced last month the surprise arrest of Paul Rusesabagina, a high-profile government critic who had been living abroad for years, to stand trial in his homeland for allegedly creating and sponsoring armed militias.
His family of Paul Rusesabagina, who had been living abroad since 1996, said he would never voluntarily return to certain prosecution in Rwanda, where he is seen as a traitor and accused of questioning the genocide.
Felicien Kabuga, who is 84 according to officals, but claims to be 87, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run. He is accused of being a leading financier of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
France opened a probe into alleged crimes against humanity by Ntiwiragabo after he was found in the suburbs of the city of Orleans, about 100 kilometres south-west of Paris.
Felicien Kabuga was indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1997 on seven counts, including genocide.
Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint statement.
President Paul Kagame said in a recorded speech carried on the state-run broadcaster that Rwanda had to remember the genocide despite the coronavirus outbreak.
Fabien Neretse, who protested his innocence, is the first person to be convicted in Belgium on such a charge and he now faces a possible life sentence.
For many survivors, forgiveness remains difficult when the bodies of their loved ones have not been found and many killers are still free.
Whipped up by extremist propaganda, the people of Giheta - from the ethnic Hutu majority - attacked their longtime neighbours in Ruseke from the Tutsi minority.
The probe has been a major source of tension between the two countries after seven people, close to President Paul Kagame, were charged in the French investigation.
The long-running probe has been a major source of tension between the two countries.
The claims were contained in a new report released by a Washington law firm on Wednesday.
Diane Rwigara spoke out against Paul Kagame’s autocratic regime and was disqualified from running against him in presidential elections earlier this month.