After more than 20 years on the run, Félicien Kabuga was arrested in 2020 in the Paris suburbs.
The once wealthy 87-year-old is accused of having financed, "aiding and abetting" the Hutu Interahamwe militias, the main armed arms of the 1994 Tutsi genocide. His trial began Thursday before a UN court in The Hague .
Hearings that will be followed with great attention by the victims of the genocide who hope in particular to know more about the planning of the genocide.