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Some people put wood here...

To prevent cars from passing.

Every time you crossed the road block, you had to--

you had to show your ID card...

To see if you were hutu or tutsi.

They had machetes. There were rifles, clubs.

Many things.

If you were a hutu, you were free to go. You could pass and go wherever you wanted.

But if you were a tutsi...

- Your ID! -I am not a tutsi!

You were in trouble.

Did you see your nose?

She's a tutsi warrior!

You want to die?

Bring the papers! Kill her!

They killed my mother,

my two older brothers, my younger brother, and my sister.

The machetes were bought...

By kabuga. We all know that.

Of course, everyone knows it.

F�licien kabuga financed the genocide.

Nothing could have been possible without money.

I hope god will help US to exterminate them,

and to organize ourselves to exterminate this bad race.

F�licien kabuga is an exceptional figure

both for cruelty and perversity.

That's why I will never forgive myself for his escape from US.

Kabuga distributed weapons and ammunition.

The militiamen were also given money, uniforms...

And they also had meetings...

And all met directly in kabuga's office.

I even saw with my own eyes...

Machetes delivered in a truck...

Directly in his office in muhima.

And then, the murders began!

The enemy was the tutsis.

The hunt for kabuga starts in Switzerland.

One day, I get a phone call from a member of the tutsi community in Switzerland...

Telling me that f�licien kabuga...

Is in Switzerland with his family, and that he has applied for asylum.

Back... back then, it was a refugee registration center.

Mr. Kabuga arrived here

with two minibus cars, with a lot of suitcases.

So, an unusual way to enter a refugee registration center.

The others usually came with a small backpack

and they had nothing else.

He arrives, most likely

by quickly obtaining a visa for Switzerland,

because he had had one previously, because he's also a rich man.

F�licien kabuga arrived in Switzerland on July 22

even though he was blacklisted by the federal department of foreign affairs.

Until the end of July,

f�licien kabuga seems to be spending quiet days in Bern.

He apparently stays in this hotel.

I witnessed what happened in Rwanda,

and it's been haunting me for years.

For me, it's the burned children that I saw.

I still have nightmares about them.

I am, I must confess, horrified...

Horrified, that my country could offer asylum

to a genocidist.

Given the special functions that I had back then,

I heard rumors.

I heard rumors that f�licien kabuga

was about to be deported from Switzerland.

So I called the director of the federal office for foreigners.

And I remember telling him,

"you can't let this war criminal leave."

And then, a couple days later,

I learned that f�licien kabuga

had boarded a plane in Geneva.

I was overwhelmed with a feeling of rage and powerlessness.

F�licien kabuga deported

open investigation

He had his bank account here.

It was a well credited account of course, that of a millionaire.

And he was given time to completely empty his account.

He left Switzerland with all his money.

He even managed to leave with a ticket paid for by Switzerland,

with his whole family.

This is unbelievable.

It's a decision of political cowardice

to say, "we are not going to burden ourselves with a trial

in violation of human rights in a distant country."

The easiest is to put this gentleman on a plane.

At that moment, for me, it is incomprehension, it's anger.

For Switzerland,

homeland of human rights, which hosts the United Nations,

to not anticipate this serious issue,

at least for the sake of prevention, keep Mr. Kabuga

in Switzerland in order to clarify the case,

for me it is completely incomprehensible.

Absolutely incomprehensible, still now.

After leaving Switzerland,

kabuga left for Kinshasa.

Kinshasa is certainly a big city,

but with few international class hotels.

There were just two back then.

So, we thought we had one in two chances to find the right one.

And we decide to try to find him.

We go to intercontinental. And I decided to go for it.

I went to the reception and said,

"we would like to talk to Mr. F�licien kabuga."

The receptionist looks in her sheets

and says, "it's this room, I'll call him."

She calls, I introduce myself,

journalist from Swiss radio.

He accepts, and we go up to f�licien kabuga's room.

...to see a doctor or for business.

But beyond that, he didn't know anyone.

He was with his family,

so his children and wife were in the other room.

He was totally calm.

He thought it was unfair that he was deported

since he followed the procedure to seek asylum.

He decides to speak in his own language,

and his daughter translates.

Did they ask you questions when you arrived in Geneva?

There was no particular question,

the visa was valid.

He entered as he would usually enter.

Of course, he denied any direct involvement in the genocide.

He described himself as a businessman

who invested in different companies in Rwanda,

including the radio des Mille collines.

I was just a shareholder and I was not the only one.

We invested in a simple commercial radio.

We just wanted the radio to be a success and be open to those

who wanted to advertise on it.

By then, we already knew

that radio des Mille collines

was one of the main instigators of the genocide.

Tutsi-cockroaches want to harm our daily lives!

These people are very bad,

their race is bad.

Kabuga was one of the founders and a major financier

of radio television libre des Mille collines...

Established in 1993.

Dear audience, it's rtlm! Kigali's free radio,

which broadcasts on 106.94!

Dear audience, it's rtlm!

Kigali's free radio, which broadcasts on 106.94!

There's no tutsi as rich as kabuga! So stop bragging!

I'm not joking, you'll be exterminated.

Let's organize to eliminate them all

so that our children and great grandchildren never ever hear

about the thing we call "tutsis".

As I often tell you,

tutsi cockroaches eat human flesh and they are cannibals.

Cockroaches resist!

They are annoying because we kill them over and over,

we crush them, but it's impossible to exterminate them!

I had, it's true,

a very strong voice against the tutsis.

We said that they are animals that can kill you.

The little children of the tutsis...

Were also enemies.

They will kill you once they grow up.

At the time, we thought it was true. I thought it was true.

We knew...

We knew very well that it was kabuga who was the big boss.

I saw him all the time because he came to the radio.

I saw him several times... several times.

He was the ideologue.

If he had not been an ideologue,

he couldn't have established this radio

and given the line to follow.

F�licien kabuga was the richest man in Rwanda.

He was a very successful businessman from the north of the country.

Kabuga was so rich

that when someone in the neighborhood got rich,

we called him a "kabuga".

He was comparable to a soccer star.

When he passed, everyone recognized his car.

He was shining through. But no one ever saw his face.

The increasingly frantic hate speech on rtlm

arouses the indignation of the democrats.

In particular, of the minister of information, faustin rucogoza,

who threatens to shut down rtlm.

News that fuels hatred...

This news is not acceptable and does not belong in this country.

In the office of rucogoza, we will see

f�licien kabuga publicly for the first time,

since television is there and is able to film this pathetic discussion.

Rtlm can not please everyone.

Mister minister,

rtlm only tells the truth

and only what is really happening.

And it is for this reason that we founded it,

to enlighten the population.

This is the first and, I believe, last time

that he was publicly seen in a video

as the great organizer of the group of hutu extremists.

So, no one will dare to come and close rtlm.

In the end, rucogoza is the one who will lose

because he will be assassinated with his wife and kids.

Because he opposed those people.

Let's all sing together:

Great success

for the international criminal court for Rwanda.

After the arrest in Kenya, last week,

of seven members of the former Rwandan regime...

Kabuga had the opportunity

to stay in Kenya because he had a lot of money.

It was, back then, an extremely corrupted country...

Where it was possible to buy visas and to buy silence.

Where you could buy anything if you have money.

I'm William munuhe's brother.

He is the last born of the family.

Once, he told US that

he had friends from america.

He said that through his friends,

he could raise our living standards as a family.

Because in our lives we've been raised in poverty.

Munuhe was a smart man.

People of the government sometimes asked him to hide f�licien kabuga.

And when kabuga needed someone to get a job done,

they would ask munuhe to do it.

This is the letter. Munuhe narrates how

he was kidnapped on a highway in Nairobi.

At that point, he says:

That's how the letter ends.

I think they had an agreement.

Kabuga was supposed to come to munuhe's place

to pay him so he would keep quiet.

That's when munuhe tipped off the FBI.

And the FBI planned on how they would arrest kabuga.

This is my brother's death certificate.

It's written:

They struck his throat with a sharp object.

Blood spurted and splashed from the ceiling to the closet.

We even found blood in the sink that they probably used to clean up.

It is even said that he went through a body transformation

in order to hide himself.

That he could have traveled to countries in Asia,

in Europe, with fake passports.

Kabuga was wanted. He was the most wanted man,

but a lot of others were wanted, namely

his son-in-law, ngirabatware, who played a terrible part during the genocide.

They located him in Germany.

The process was obviously to alert the German police,

the only ones able to operate on German soil.

Rwandan genocidist arrested in Frankfurt

a former minister arrested

Some German policemen found the debris from this USB drive and

sent it for expertise.

When they managed to recover some of the data from this USB drive,

they saw that there was an invoice for the hospitalization of a Tanzanian.

This document was a piece of paper with the photo ID of a Tanzanian,

and the photo was clear.

It was indeed f�licien kabuga,

who had been smuggled into Germany on a fake passport.

F�licien kabuga did not wait to be identified.

He disappeared again. It was a monumental failure.

The genocide organization is,

in some ways, like the mafia.

And you know that when a mafia member is buried,

all mafia members go to the procession.

I learned one day

that a friend of f�licien kabuga's had passed away...

And that he was about to be buried in the Paris region.

Here is Jean bosco barayagwiza's grave.

This is where I hoped f�licien kabuga, the genocide's financier, would come...

Since he was a great friend of Jean bosco barayagwiza's.

Both of them were at rtlm.-

I was here, not very far, with a cameraman friend,

to film kabuga's arrest.

Two policemen hid in the gatehouse you see here,

at the end of the cemetery, which is used to store tools.

And they were waiting for my signal to get closer and arrest kabuga.

There were employees of the public gardening services,

who were pretending to plant flowers.

There were two trucks and it was planned that,

if kabuga was spotted, to prevent him from escaping

at my signal, one truck would block the street

and another would block a little further up. He had no way to escape.

The procession of Rwandans approach the grave here,

and when the procession is leaving...

I'm still waiting for kabuga's arrival,

because I saw that he was not in the procession.

I see that there is Dr. Eugene rwamucyo,

who is wanted by an international arrest warrant,

who is there and I say to myself: "At least, let's arrest that one."

You are coming with US.

- Now? -Give me your hands, please.

That's how I failed to arrest f�licien kabuga

but managed to arrest Dr. Eugene rwamucyo.

- Call my lawyer, Mr. Boulain. - Let's go, sir.

What's going on?

It's too tight, please.

- Move, sir. - Thank you.

Those who have been arrested and put in jail are the little people.

Kabuga and the authorities who planned the genocide...

Many have never been arrested.

They are hiding.

I'm pretty sure that kabuga is in Kenya.

Just like the victims of the holocaust

have never given up,

have never stopped hunting down the perpetrators of the holocaust,

I think we must never stop hunting down people like f�licien kabuga.

In the beginning of 2020, we received information from the English

that one of his daughters was in the area.

She often came to the country, and notably to asni�res.

The other members of the family, who were being tapped,

also came to asni�res.

We thought there was something special about this city.

We decided to speed things up.

A meeting was set for Saturday at 6 A.M.

And when we arrived outside the apartment

we went through the basement

to go up the stairs discreetly, of course.

Once we were in front of the apartment door,

everyone got into position.

And it was time.

The man was living under a false identity

in asni�res-sur-seine, near Paris.

The result of a long investigation by French police.

He acknowledged that he was indeed f�licien kabuga.

I thought it was a historic day because it was the end of his run.