Frankfurt - Germany is to send Rose Kabuye, 47, a Rwandan presidential aide, to France after judges approved the extradition request Wednesday, a Frankfurt prosecution office spokeswoman said.

Kabuye, a former guerrilla leader and mayor of the Rwandan capital Kigali, was arrested when she landed at Frankfurt airport on Sunday.

Rwanda expelled the German ambassador to Kigali in protest and recalled its own ambassador from Berlin.

Spokeswoman Hildegard Becker-Toussaint said the date on which French police came to Frankfurt to take her into custody of her was up to France to decide. The prosecutor said the German government had not objected to the extradition.

Kabuye and eight other Rwandans are wanted for questioning in France about the 1994 assassination of Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana, which triggered the genocide by Hutu militants of 800,000 Rwandans, mainly Tutsis. Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down.

After her arrest, she agreed to a fast-track extradition from Germany to France.

Becker-Toussaint rejected Kigali's assertion that Kabuye was in Germany on official work and had a right to diplomatic immunity, saying Kabuye clearly knew in advance that she would be arrested if she arrived on German soil.

In Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed late Tuesday that the German ambassador in Kigali would "leave the country at Rwanda's request and travel to Berlin for consultations."

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was in Germany to give a lecture Monday evening to business executives, visited Kabuye in prison on Tuesday and said she was upbeat.

Before a German judge, she denied the French allegations of murder and membership in a terrorist organization. (dpa)