Activist Kemi Seba lost his French nationality (here at the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg, in 2023). © SOPA Images/SIPA
Published on October 15, 2024
Lecture : 2 minutes.
The Beninese pan-Africanist Kemi Seba, known for his virulent anti-Western positions and who had his French nationality withdrawn in July, was arrested in Paris on October 14, learned AFP from a source close to the matter.
Real name Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, the former leader of the Tribu Ka, a small group which claimed anti-Semitism and advocated separation between Blacks and Whites avant to be dissolved by the French government in 2006, was convicted several times in France for inciting racial hatred. The reason for the arrest has not been specified at this stage.
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Relay d’influence from Russia
The Pan-Africanist activist declared last August that he had received a Nigerien diplomatic passport. “In response to the procedure for forfeiture of my nationality, committed by Françafrique against my person […], the revolutionary and visionary general Abdourahamane Tiani, head of state of Niger, accompanied by the valiant members of the CNSP […]decided to grant me the diplomatic passport, in view of the fight that I led for 25 years for Africa, and this, peril of my life,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
To read: In Niger, General Tiani offers a diplomatic passport to Kemi Seba
An announcement which came after the withdrawal of his nationality by the French authorities and the day after a very critical speech by Abdourahamane Tiani against France. A few months earlier, Kemi Seba, 42 years old, born in Strasbourg of Beninese parents naturalized French, had publicly burned his French passport. He still has Beninese nationality.
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Benefiting from a certain aura on social networks, the activist is accused of being a relay of influence for Russia on the continent. In Niger, where Moscow has gained influence, it has access to the highest summit of the state. Kemi Seba also welcomed the creation of the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which brings together Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, all breaking ties with the Economic Community of African States of the West (Cedeao).
(With AFP)
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