Belgian police arrested 78-year-old Rwandan-Belgian Jean Baptiste R., a priest staying with the Brothers of Love congregation in Bierbeek near Leuven, on suspicion of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Prosecutors allege that, as director of a centre for people with physical disabilities in Gatagara, he identified Tutsi people sheltering there to Hutu militias, after which they were taken away and killed.

Prosecutors also allege that he had contact with Hutu militias before the killings, helped organise and attend preparatory meetings, and required staff and residents to carry identity cards stating their ethnicity. They said evidence was gathered during a visit to Rwanda in June, when investigators interviewed witnesses and visited the centre. Rwanda had asked Belgium to investigate him.