The first page of the letter written by Rwandan Charles Uwihoreye to Frenchman René Galinié on June 24, 1994. LE MONDE DOCUMENT
The unpublished, handwritten letter dated June 24, 1994, from Rwandan officer Charles Uwihoreye to René Galinié, France's defense attaché in Kigali from 1988 to 1991, mentions Agathe Habyarimana by name. A resident of France, the former first lady of Rwanda has faced prosecution for 19 years for crimes related to the Tutsi genocide, which left between 800,000 and one million dead between April and July 1994. On Wednesday, May 6, the investigating judges of the Paris Appeals Court overturned the dismissal of her case on August 21, 2025, and ordered the investigation to resume.
While the document, which has never been submitted to the courts, cannot alone prove the role played by the widow of President Juvénal Habyarimana, who was killed on April 6, 1994, when his plane was shot down, triggering the genocide, it adds to a body of suspicions.
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