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Gaëlle Ponselet

Belgium - Correspondent

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Gaëlle Ponselet, a journalist who has been specializing on judicial news for some 10 years, covers a large number of trials taking place in Brussels, whether they be conflicts between companies at the commercial court, criminal cases in the criminal court or recent terrorist trials in Belgium. For her, attending trials is being at the source of information and the certainty of being able to hear both sides of the story.

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Complaint in Belgium over allegations of war crimes committed by foreign soldiers of the Israeli army in Gaza - Photo: an Israeli sniper seen from behind, in firing position at the top of a building.
Crimes in Palestine: Belgian justice takes an interest in its dual nationals
25 October 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium is investigating two cases of war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank, under its universal jurisdiction. The latest case is causing a stir: a Belgian-Israeli sniper is suspected of being the perpetrator or co-perpet [...]
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial
14 May 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in K [...]
On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read: At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying
22 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. They have never been prose [...]
Rwandan trial in Belgium - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, the accused, drops defence of Georges Rutaganda, also accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: 2 portraits side by side. Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda
11 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is accused in a Belgian court of having participated in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda alongside his friend Georges Rutaganda, who was convicted 20 years ago by a UN tribunal and died in 2010. For the f [...]
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Trial in Belgium of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accused of genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Nkunduwimye stares into the camera behind his discussing lawyers.
8 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial The trial of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is to start on April 8 before the Brussels Assize Court, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis started. The accused was a close friend of Georges Rutaganda, one of the first peopl [...]
Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
9 January 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes" For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with us his thoughts on the way justice is dispensed in cases relating to the genoc [...]
Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.
11 December 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
"What judicial truth without material evidence?" During their closing arguments, Vincent and Juliette Lurquin went out of their way to defend their client Séraphin Twahirwa, a Rwandan charged before the Brussels Assize Court with having participated in the 1994 genocide. To try [...]
Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.
7 December 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali" Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s conclusion presented on Monday December 4 at the end of their trial befo [...]
Séraphin Twahirwa goes on trial in Belgium for his alleged role in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
17 October 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
"There was no roadblock, there wasn’t the space" The genocide trial of Rwandans Séraphin Twahirwa and Pierre Basabosé began in Belgium on October 9. During his first interrogation, Twahirwa denied any connection with the former presidential family, any involvement in the killing [...]
Pierre Basabosé - His trial for genocide (in Rwanda) is taking place in Belgium at the Brussels Assize Court.
21 August 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Pierre Basabosé is "mentally absent” but will be tried Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August 7 because he has Alzheimer’s. Basabosé, 76, also has senile dementia, but [...]
Colonization - Belgium - Congo
24 March 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: "This issue will come back and demand to be tackled” At the end of 2022, a special parliamentary commission meant to shed light on the Belgian colonial period ended in bitter failure. What do representatives of the mainly Congolese and Burundian diasporas who participated in this co [...]
Belgian Colonial Past - Black and white photo in which King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium are sitting on armchairs carried by Congolese in traditional dress.
19 January 2023 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims The commission on Belgium's colonial past was a pioneer in Europe, but it collapsed at the finish line at the end of December, stripped of all its well formulated recommendations. After two and a half years of looking into the pas [...]
Archives of a file titled
31 January 2022 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium's colonial past commission stalls Belgium’s commission set up to shed light on its colonial past in the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi still seems to be searching for a solution, which has dampened the initial enthusiasm it aroused. Two historians who helped draft the [...]
Banknote (dated 1920) of one Belgian Franc on which is written
2 November 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Colonial crimes: Experts recommend that Belgium compensate "Monetary payment of a colonial debt, in light of Belgium's moral responsibility". This is one of the strong recommendations in an expert report published on October 27. For a year, ten historians, jurists and political scientists [...]
Several people are sitting in a waiting room with 5 women in the front row.
18 October 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state Léa, Monique, Noëlle, Simone and Marie-José were victims of systematic segregation, as were 15,000 other mixed-race children, when Congo was a Belgian colony. The five women living in Belgium and France who were born in the Congo [...]
Vandalized statue of King Leopold II of Belgium
15 July 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: expert mission ends What was supposed to be preliminary work lasting two to three months has taken a year. Some dozen experts were given a mandate from the special commission on Belgium’s colonial past to chart the main outlines of that historical pe [...]
8 October 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: “It’s important, but will it succeed?” MPs worried about the magnitude of their task, experts challenged by some associations but apparently united and enthusiastic: they were all there for the first public session of the Special Commission on Belgium’s colonial past o [...]
24 July 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium’s colonial past: ten experts to set the scene It will be a “special commission” - not a commission of inquiry or a truth commission - that is to look into Belgium’s colonial past in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Parliament officially created this commission on July 16. Nineteen [...]
2 July 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium wants to confront its colonial past On 30 June, the King of the Belgians, for the first time, expressed his "regrets" to the Congolese people for the suffering caused by colonial rule. A week earlier, the Belgian parliament had initiated the creation of a "truth com [...]
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