Jean-Louis Bruguière

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Jean-Louis Bruguière, 2014.

Jean-Louis Bruguière (born May 29, 1943 in Tours ) is a former chief French investigative judge and vice-president of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris, a tribunal for serious state crimes. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved in counterterrorism issues and has earned a reputation as France's “leading terrorist hunter”. He was investigator and judge rolled into one. Bruguière left office in 2007 and went into politics, where he supported Nicolas Sarkozy .

Investigation cases

He became known in 1994 through the arrest of the Venezuelan Ilich Ramírez Sánchez alias "Carlos", who was wanted worldwide as a top terrorist .

In June 2003 he had Christian Ganczarski arrested at Paris airport.

Shot down of the Rwandan presidential machine

Internationally, Bruguière caused a sensation in November 2006 when he brought a lawsuit on behalf of the French government against the current Rwandan government under Paul Kagame , which consists of numerous members of the former civil war Rwandan Patriotic Front , to which Kagame was a member. According to the French indictment, she was involved in the shooting down of the presidential machine in 1994 - thus in the murder of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi , Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira - and was largely responsible for the genocide in Rwanda .

In 2006, a total of nine international arrest warrants were issued against leading figures of the Rwandan leaders at the time, alleging that they had caused the downing of the Rwandan presidential machine and thus triggered the genocide.

In Kigali , the arrest warrants and the associated allegations again sparked violent indignation and led to the severance of diplomatic relations with France and the abolition of French as the school and administrative language, combined with a simultaneous turn to the English-speaking world . A witness questioned by Bruguière, who had confirmed the existence of an alleged “Network Commando” that was involved in the shooting down of the presidential machine, complained in a letter to Bruguière that his testimony had been confirmed by the investigating judge after the 64-page report was presented were partially twisted to the contrary.

Bruguière's approach was viewed critically in France as early as 2006. His investigation results were based on the oral statements of two people: the former guerrilla fighter Abdul Joshua Ruzibiza (1970–2010) and Paul Barril (* 1946), a member of the French national gendarmerie . In November 2008, the Rwandan presidential advisor Rose Kabuye was arrested in Frankfurt am Main on the basis of the 2006 arrest warrants and extradited from Germany to France a few days later.

The arrest of the Rwandan presidential adviser by Germany and the subsequent extradition to France led to a crisis between the Federal Republic and Rwanda, because Kabuye had come to Germany to prepare for the planned visit of Rwandan President Kagame here. Kagame expressed his disappointment with the behavior of Germany. At the same time, members of the Rwandan government announced that they were considering arrest warrants for French citizens who, from the Rwandan perspective, were involved in the genocide. In August 2008, the Rwandan Minister of Justice presented a report calling for Dominique de Villepin , Édouard Balladur , Alain Juppé and François Mitterrand to be held responsible for their roles in the events that led to the 1994 genocide.

Around the same time as Kabuye was extradited to France, Ruzibiza, who was now living in Norway, revoked part of the statements he allegedly made to Jean-Louis Bruguière in Paris in July 2003 and expressly exonerated Rose Kabuye by making it clear that, when it came to the shooting down of the presidential plane in 2003, he never mentioned her name to Bruguière. He also claimed that the book Rwanda: Secret History , which appeared under his name, was actually written by several people and that what is in the book about the shooting down of the Rwandan presidential machine was not the truth. Ruzibiza also accused Bruguière of manipulative behavior.

A few years later, a report by the French investigating magistrate and terrorist attack expert Marc Trévidic in January 2012 came to a completely different conclusion than Bruguière, namely that President Habyarimana's plane fired through one from Kanombe Hill near Kigali airport in 1994 Missile had been hit. However, the headquarters of the Hutus Presidential Guard was on Kanombe Hill . The attack on Habyarimana would have served Hutu extremists as a pretext for the genocide. The Trévidic investigation forced the Paris government to revise its official history of the genocide in Rwanda, which had been in force until then.

Others

Jean-Louis Bruguière is a Knight of the French Legion of Honor (ch L).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denial and cover-up France tries aggressively to brush under the table its role in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Escalation of the diplomatic conflict between Paris and Kigali.- heise.de, December 1, 2006
  2. ↑ Why Rwanda said adieu to French , theguardian.com, January 16, 2009
  3. ^ Rwandan witness disputes French judge's report , mg.co.za, Dec. 4, 2006
  4. ^ President's adviser arrested in Europe , rfi.fr, Nov. 11, 2008
  5. ↑ Kabuye extradited to France, thousands protest in Kigali , rfi.fr, 19 Nov. 2008
  6. ↑ Kigali expels German ambassador , rfi.fr, November 12, 2008
  7. ↑ France denies involvement in 1994 Rwandan genocide , rfi.fr, 7 Aug 2008
  8. ↑ Key witness in Kabuye trial retracts testimony , rfi.fr, Nov. 19, 2008
  9. ↑ The downing of the plane that started the genocide. in the Tages-Anzeiger on April 7, 2014
  10. ↑ What sparked the Rwanda genocide diepresse.com, January 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ Air & Space Academy - Member Detail: Jean-Louis BRUGUIÈRE . November 24, 2015. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ "If we do terror ..." in the Tagesspiegel of November 5, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Bruguière, Jean-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French investigative judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours