Télesphore Dereva, a Rwandan resident of Canada, with an international arrest warrant issued by the Justice of Rwanda, was released on bail Wednesday after being arrested by Canadian authorities.
Rwanda accuses Dereva for being part of militias that participated in the 1994 genocide. He has been resident in Canada since 2007 in Quebec.
He received a letter in late February of the Border Services Agency (FSA) asking him to appear March 5 at the local office of the FSA, told AFP his lawyer, Philippe Larochelle.
Upon his arrival, Dereva was arrested under an international arrest warrant issued by Rwanda, which accuses him of being part of the extremist Interahamwe militia. Dereva was transferred to a detention center for illegal immigrants in Laval.
“He was released on bail Wednesday at a hearing,” said Larochelle.
His lawyer said Dereva was acquitted by courts Rwandan “gacaca”, charged with trying almost all of the alleged perpetrators of the genocide against Tutsis in 1994.
Recall that in late January, Mugesera had been removed from Canada indicted by the Rwandan justice planning and incitement to genocide and distributing weapons.
Mugesera, 59, was claimed by the Rwandan justice system since 1995 to a famous speech in November 1992 at a rally of his party.
Rwandan authorities believe that this speech is one of the triggers of genocide against the Tutsis, in which people who participated in the genocide killed up to over a million people. In that speech, Mugesera characterized the Tutsi “cockroaches.”
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