Procès-verbal de déposition de Monsieur José de Pinho

Parret, Thierry

6 août 2013

20130806

Procès-verbal de déposition de Monsieur José de Pinho

n° 579/2008/62 ; D8567

DePinhoJoseAudition6aout2013.pdf

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Justice française

PAT

Audition judiciaire

FR

José de Pinho, technical military assistant with the paras-commando battalion in Kanombe, said that on April 6, 1994, immediately after hearing the sound of the explosions, five of them went to the plane crash site with their leader, Commander De Saint-Quentin, two other French technical military assistants and Major Ntabakuze in the latter's van. In his audition, de Saint-Quentin says he only went there at 10 p.m. De Pinho returned to camp for some of his CRAPs to "secure" the crash zone. He says they searched overnight and the next day for black boxes and missile debris but found nothing. He claims the missile hit the plane from behind while it hit the right wing. He blames Paul Kagame for the attack but he awkwardly acknowledges that "Hutu extremists would never accept the entry of Tutsis into the government". Eight times he speaks of a missile firing post, whereas the Russian SA 7 or 16 missiles are shoulder-fired and do not require a firing post, unlike the Mistral missile.