France, Dec. 11 -- The complaint accusing the Bank of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity was filed on 4 December with the senior investigating judge at the crimes against humanity division of the Paris judicial tribunal, Radio France and theLiberation newspaperrevealed on Thursday.

It aims to establish whether the French central bank failed in its obligations to respect a United Nations-imposed embargo on arms sales to Rwanda introduced on 17 May 1994, several weeks after the genocide began on 7 April.

During a 100-day period between April and July 1994, around 800,000 ethnic Tutsiand moderate Hutu were massacred by Hutu extremists. Seven transfers

According to the plaintiffs - the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda...