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France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'

Felicien Kabuga is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and the United States has put a $5 million bounty on his head. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  AFP

French police on Saturday arrested one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi describing him as its "financier" and one of the world's most wanted fugitives.

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.

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