According to the national contribution to the EMN Report on Migration and Asylum 2019:

The Council of State rejected the applicant’s appeal (for which the Office entered an appearance in defence), thus confirming the denial of international protection to a Rwandan national, a senior officer of the Rwandan armed forces since 1993 who had been acquitted on appeal at the ICTR in 2014. The Council of State held that, in particular, res judicata arising from an international criminal jurisdiction (or indeed from a French criminal jurisdiction) only applied to the findings of fact, and not to the reasoning behind a judgement of dismissal or acquittal stemming from an inability to substantiate the allegations or assuage doubts as to their veracity. It also recalled that the standard of “serious reasons for considering” implies a lesser degree of proof than that required in criminal proceedings.