STOCKHOLM: A Swede of Rwandan origin was charged Friday with genocide and war crimes after having been convicted in his absence in Rwanda for involvement in the country’s 1994 genocide, the Stockholm prosecutor’s office said.
The suspect, who had lived in Sweden since 2002 and was naturalized in 2012, is suspected of being a low-level official involved in the murders, attempted murders and kidnappings of Tutsis.
His trial opens Sept. 16 and is due to end in March.
He was sentenced in 2007 in absentia to 30 years behind bars by the Rwandan authorities who later tracked him to Sweden, where Swedish officials opened an inquiry. Prosecutor Tora Holst told AFP that the suspect, who was placed in detention pending trial a year ago, could not be expelled to Rwanda because he was now Swedish.
Under Swedish law a suspect can be remanded in custody while a prosector gathers evidence to bring charges. According to the UN, some 800,000 people died in the Rwandan genocide, which began after the assassination of Rwanda’s Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana two decades ago.
Sweden charges Rwanda genocide suspect
Sweden charges Rwanda genocide suspect
Two family members of Mexico’s education secretary killed in shooting
MEXICO CITY: Authorities in the western Mexican state of Colima said they killed three people suspected in the shooting deaths of two family members of Mexico’s secretary of education on Saturday.
Colima, located on Mexico’s Pacific coast, is one of the country’s most violent states. It recorded the highest homicide rate in Mexico in 2023 and 2024, according to the US State Department.
The local prosecutor’s office said officers killed three suspects in the 4:30 am (1030 GMT) shooting of two women, whom Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education Mario Delgado later identified as his aunt and cousin.
They did not identify a motive in the shooting or say whether they were searching for other suspects.
“Deep shock, outrage, and sorrow over the events that occurred this morning in Colima, where my aunt Eugenia Delgado and my cousin Sheila were brutally murdered in their home,” Delgado wrote on X on Saturday.
Officials tracked the suspects’ vehicle to a Colima home on Saturday afternoon and killed three people in a gunfight, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Investigators found weapons and clothing in the suspects’ home linked to the double shooting.
Delgado was appointed education secretary by President Claudia Sheinbaum in 2024. He previously served as national president of the ruling Morena party.
