Judge rules against extradition of widow of late president

Описание: (28 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Agathe Habyarimana, widow of the former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, walking through the courthouse corridor next to lawyer and entourage
2. Pan from entourage to Habyarimana seated
3. Habyarimana enters courtroom to hear decision
4. Wide of Habyarimana and her lawyer speaking to journalists after decision
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Agathe Habyarimana, Widow of late Rwandan President:
"I am happy, I am delighted and I have always had confidence in French justice. There you are."
6. Cutaway of media
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Agathe Habyarimana, Widow of late Rwandan President:
"I always had hope."
(Q: What kind?)
"I always had hope that French justice would judge my case. France had me brought here because it is a country of asylum, a country in which I placed my trust."
8. Cutaway of viewfinder of camera filming Habyarimana
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Agathe Habyarimana, Widow of late Rwandan President:
"They attack me because they know that they had killed my husband and right now I am involved in a civil case in France and I am asking that the ones who downed my husband''''s airplane be judged like the others."
10. Cutaway of Habyarimana and lawyer
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Agathe Habyarimana, Widow of late Rwandan President:
"What I really would like is for the truth to come out on this assassination. The ones that downed the airplane of the President Habyarimana and his counterparts from Burundi have to be identified and I really hope that the report that is being done will shed light on what happened".
12. Habyarimana walking down corridor with lawyer
13. Exterior of court
STORYLINE:
The Paris appeals court has ruled that France must not extradite the wife of Rwanda''''s former president who is sought by a prosecutor in connection with the African country''''s 1994 genocide.
Rwandan authorities allege that Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana, was one of the architects of the genocide that began after his plane was shot down on 6 April 1994
"I am delighted and I have always had confidence in French justice," she said.
Two years ago a Rwandan prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant for Habyarimana on charges of genocide and "crimes against humanity".
French police detained her last year, but she was released on condition that she stay in France.
The court''''s ruling is binding on Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
Rwanda could still make a second request for extradition - but the ruling makes an eventual extradition very unlikely.
Rwanda''''s genocide was sparked after an airplane carrying President Habyarimana was shot down as it neared Kigali.
Habyarimana said Rwanda''''s allegations against her because she was "involved in a civil case in France and I am asking that the ones who downed my husband''''s airplane be judged like the others".
The court''''s reasoning for the decision was not immediately available.

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