On February 4, 2014, the cour d’assises in Paris began hearing the trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, the former Chief of Intelligence in Rwanda. According to news reports, he was arrested in 2008 while living under an alias on the French Indian Ocean Island of Mayotte. He is charged with complicity in genocide and in crimes against humanity. Simbikangwa denies the charges, and “[h]is lawyers argue that he is being made a scapegoat for the killings.”