48-year-old is suspected of genocide – Aftonbladet

Crime. A 48-year-old man in Örebro, sweden has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

Man was arrested early on Tuesday morning and was arrested later in the day. He is suspected of genocide and serious crimes. Krigsbrottskommissionen investigating the suspicions against him.

the Man came to Sweden in 1998 and became a Swedish citizen in 2006, according to police.

“this is a very serious crime and a major issue for the police, our ultimate goal is that Sweden shall be a safe haven for war criminals”, says Patricia Rakic Arle, inspector at police National operations department, in a press release.

secretive

Prosecutor Kristina Lindhoff Carleson at the international office of the prosecutor is being very secretive about the investigation, when the TT is talking with her. She doesn’t want to say anything about the suspicions against the man arose.

instead refers the prosecutor to a written statement in which she says that it is important that such crimes are investigated even though it has been a long time.

“Genocide and serious crimes are very serious crimes, and be exempted from the rules on limitation periods. Therefore, it is extremely important to investigate these,” she says in the statement.

Latest on Friday 12 o’clock to Kristina Lindhoff Carleson make the decision if she should ask the man in custody.

Life imprisonment

in the Past, two have been convicted in Sweden for involvement in the genocide in Rwanda. According to the judges, they were involved in the murder of thousands of people.

Stanislas Mbanenande was sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment by the district court. That judgment was upheld later in the court of appeal.

Claver Berinkindi was sentenced in may of this year and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the district court. The judgment is appealed and the trial in the court of appeal is not yet completed.

the FACTS

Genocide in Rwanda

Around 800 000 people were killed during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 led by the extremnationalister from allow for the full implementation hutu.

most of The victims were the tutsis, but also hutus who were seen as collaborators were murdered.

the Genocide was carefully planned, but the trigger was the shooting down – not determined by whom – the aircraft then hutupresidenten Habyarimana and his burundiske colleague, Cyprien Ntaryamira were travelling in.

Habyarimana had signed a peace treaty with the tutsigerillan the RPF, which in some camps was seen as a betrayal.

the RPF plunged after a 100-day killing folkmordsregimen and control Rwanda than in the day. The former gerillaledaren Paul Kagame is still president.

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