PARIS—Investigative magistrates in France have dropped charges against nine Rwandan officials investigated over the death of the country’s president in 1994, an event that sparked the genocide in Rwanda, a judicial source said.
France launched the investigation, which also targeted Rwanda’s former Defense Minister James Kabarebe, in 1998 following demands by the relatives of the French crew who died when President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was downed.
