Rwanda's protocol chief for President Paul Kagame is insisting she is innocent, a day after being charged in France in connection with the assassination that sparked her country's 1994 genocide.

Rose Kabuye is charged with complicity in the assassination for allegedly housing the man who shot down the plane of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, setting off 100 days of ethnic slaughter.

She said Nov. 20 on LCI TV that she is in France "to prove my innocence." She was arrested in Germany on Nov. 9 and brought to Paris on Nov. 19, declining to fight her extradition. Kabuye, 47, is not in jail but her movements are subject to restrictions.

Kabuye says the genocide that killed more than 500,000 minority Tutsis was planned in advance and the plane attack had nothing to do with it.