afrol News, 9 July - Rwandan fugitive, Callixte Mbarishimana has been arrested by Interpol while trying to leave Frankfurt to St Petersberg on Monday.

Mr Mbarushimana has been subject of an INTERPOL red notice, or international wanted persons notice, issued at the request of INTERPOL's National Central Bureau (NCB) in Kigali for genocide, murder, extermination and creation of a criminal organisation.

A check against INTERPOL's wanted persons databases by German border police at Frankfurt airport resulted in the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

On 25 June 2008, as part of INTERPOL's Rwandan Genocide Fugitives Project, the General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France circulated a list detailing the fugitives wanted by NCB Kigali in connection with the Rwandan genocide to all 186 INTERPOL member countries.

"This arrest clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of inter agency and cross border cooperation and is a credit to all law enforcement officers and agencies involved," said INTERPOL's Executive Director of Police Services Jean-Michel Louboutin, adding that information circulated via global network and inclusion of information in national databases by German authorities were all key steps in the arrest of a man wanted in connection with horrific crimes.

"This arrest underlines the ongoing commitment of all INTERPOL member countries to bring each and every one of these fugitives to justice, and the value to frontline law enforcement officers in ensuring they have access to vital police information contained in INTERPOL's databases," added Mr Louboutin.

Mbarushimana is the eighth Rwandan genocide fugitive subject of an INTERPOL red notice issued at the request of NCB Kigali and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to be arrested in the past 12 months.

By staff writer

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