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Paris (ANTARA News / Reuters) - French police have arrested a doctor involved in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and sought by Interpol, the government said in Sannois town near Paris, Wednesday.

According to the mayor's office Sannois, Eugene Rwamucyo was arrested while attending the funeral of Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, a former Rwandan official who died in prison while serving a sentence for taking part in the genocide or extermination of ethnic groups that regularly.

The arrests were made in 2006 based on an arrest warrant issued at the request of Rwanda.

Rwamucyo been suspended from his job at a hospital in France last year's account after a nurse did a search on the Internet and saw his name on the Interpol Web site that lists the alleged violation as "genocide, war crimes."

According to French media reports, he now lives in Belgium.

He denied involvement in the 100-day slaughter in Rwanda, which is approximately 800.0000 an ethnic Tutsi and Hutu people who are politically moderate Hutus were killed by the authorities.

French prosecutors have started investigations against Rwamucyo in 2008 but received no information or call him at that time. He refused political refugee status but granted the license living in France.