German prosecutors have arrested a German-Rwandan national on suspicion of aiding genocide and 25 counts of murder during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, authorities said on Wednesday (1 July).
The suspect, identified only as Innocent S under German privacy laws, is accused of ordering the deaths of 25 Tutsis on five separate occasions while serving as an assistant to the mayor of Kayove in north-western Rwanda.
Prosecutors said the suspect personally took part in at least one killing, allegedly stabbing a victim in the chest.
They also accused him of using his position to incite the extermination of Tutsis and of drawing up death lists during the mass killings.
The man was arrested in the German state of Hesse and has reportedly lived in Germany since the early 2000s.
Germany has pursued several genocide-related cases under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute grave international crimes regardless of where they were committed.
The case mirrors that of Onesphore Rwabukombe, a former Rwandan mayor who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in 2015 for aiding the genocide.
More than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists over about 100 days between April and July 1994.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda indicted 93 individuals during its operation and convicted 62 of them.
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