BERLIN , Germany ( CNN ) -- A top aide to the Rwandan president is in German custody for her alleged role in a 1994 assassination that sparked the Rwandan genocide , the German Foreign Ministry said Monday . Rose Kabuye is suspected of participating in downing of a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana . Rose Kabuye was arrested Saturday at the Frankfurt airport while on a private visit , the ministry said . She is awaiting extradition to France , it said . Rwanda 's government issued a statement saying Kabuye is innocent of the charges , and that she is ready to face trial in France . `` The government of Rwanda believes that this is a political game designed to blur the truth and weaken the government , '' the statement said . She is one of nine aides to Rwandan President Paul Kagame that Europe is seeking to arrest on charges of plotting the assassination of the then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana in April 1994 . A French judge ruled in 2006 that legal proceedings could proceed against Kagame and his nine aides , which prompted Rwanda to break its diplomatic ties with France . Habyarimana and Burundi 's former leader Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when their plane was shot down in April 1994 , a move that fueled the genocide in Rwanda by Hutu extremists against mostly Tutsis . About 800,000 people were killed .
Opposition to Rwandan president held over events that sparked genocide . President Kabuye arrested while at the airport while on private visit . Leaders of Rwanda , all killed when plane was shot down in 1994 .