Facts
Pierre Kayondo was reportedly a shareholder of the Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a radio station that played a fundamental role in the 1994 genocide, inciting massacres and spreading hatred against the Tutsi and moderate Hutus.
He was reportedly a member of the Mouvement Républicain National pour la Démocratie et le Développement (National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development), which had close ties to the Interahamwe militia, a Hutu paramilitary organisation which was heavily implicated in the 1994 genocide.
He is also alleged to have taken part personally in the massacres.
Procedure
On 22 September 2021, the Collectif des parties civiles pour le Rwanda filed a complaint against Kayondo for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
On 18 October 2021, the French prosecuting authorities opened an investigation against Kayondo for his alleged involvement in crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994.
In September 2023, Kayondo was charged while under investigation (mis en examen) for genocide and crimes against humanity and placed under judicial surveillance.
On 15 October 2025, the prosecution issued its final submission requesting that Kayondo be sent to trial on charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, complicity in crimes against humanity and conspiracy to commit these crimes.