Three non-governmental associations have filed a lawsuit against the French bank BNP Paribas for its alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide, AFP news agency reports.
The NGOs are accusing BNP of “complicity in genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity”
The groups, in a joint statement, allege that the bank provided funding for the purchase of “80 tonnes of arms used to carry out genocide” by the then government of Rwanda, despite the bank having known its “genocidal intentions”.
A spokesperson for the bank told AFP that they were unable to comment on the allegations because they did not have “sufficient details”.
Nearly 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis were killed during the genocide.
