A United Nations court has ruled that 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect, Félicien Kabuga is unfit to stand trial.
The Hague-based International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said it finds him unfit to participate meaningfully in his trial and is very unlikely to regain fitness in the future”.
It has called for an “alternative” legal procedure that “resembles a trial as closely as possible, but without the possibility of a conviction”.
Félicien Kabuga is accused of being the primary financier of the militia and political groups that perpetrated the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
He denied the charges of setting up hate media that urged ethnic Hutus to kill rival Tutsis and supplying death squads with machetes.
The trial of Mr Kabuga, was put on hold in March over health concerns after his arrest in Paris in the year 2020 after evading capture for 26 years.