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Gaëlle Ponselet

Belgium - Correspondent
2 April 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Liberia war crimes: Belgian investigators drag feet on Martina Johnson The pace of Belgian investigations into the role of alleged rebel commander Martina Johnson during the Liberian civil war is trying the patience of the defence and civil parties. Six years after the case was opened, investigations [...]
20 December 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Fabien Neretse is found guilty of genocide Fabien Neretse, a former senior Rwandan civil servant, was found guilty of genocide by a Belgian court. The septuagenarian was convicted of at least eleven murders and three attempted murders, committed in Rwanda in 1994 and quali [...]
28 November 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Gunshots in Mataba: “Neretse said we had nothing to be afraid of” Dozens of people from the northwest Rwandan village of Mataba have travelled thousands of kilometres to testify before the Brussels criminal court trying Fabien Neretse, a man of influence in Mataba now accused of war crimes and g [...]
21 November 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Killings in Nyamirambo: "Someone from Neretse's house was there!” The Brussels Assize Court has heard, over two and a half days, witnesses to the 9 April 1994 massacre in the Nyamirambo district of Kigali, in which the accused Fabien Neretse is implicated. Ten people were shot dead that day by s [...]
14 November 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
I risked my life for a Tutsi, Neretse tells Belgian court Fabien Neretse, 71, told a Brussels court this week he played no part in the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. He said he did not denounce his Tutsi neighbours in Kigali or train Interahamwe militia as he is accused, and that the pro [...]
7 November 2019 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Trial of Rwandan genocide suspect Fabien Neretse opens in Belgium The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office describes Fabien Neretse as a planner of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. A former prominent figure from north-western Rwanda, he is suspected of having helped to carry out a massacre in Kiga [...]