Accustomed to anti-France and anti-Semitic controversies, he was arrested in the streets of Paris on Monday October 14, a few months after being stripped of his French nationality.
This is one more affair in the long history between France and Kemi Seba. The pan-Africanist activist was arrested this Monday, October 14 in Paris, according to information obtained by Agence France-Presse, for a reason still unknown. On July 9, Stellio Capo Chichi – his real name – was stripped of his French nationality by a decree published in the Official Journal, after having burned his French passport. A finality after several years of racist and anti-Western speeches, and a rapprochement with Russia.
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Aged 42, the Beninese who is now at the head of the Pan-Africanist Emergencies group is used to controversies and problems with French justice. At the beginning of the year, during a rally in front of the press in Fleury-Mérogis, the activist declared that he was a “Free Beninese”in response to the request for forfeiture of his nationality expressed by the Ministry of the Interior. “Your passport is not a bone that you give us or take away from us depending on our degree of submission to you, as if black people were dogs. I am a free black man”said proudly, before burning his French passport.
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Because for several years, the person who was traveling thanks to a diplomatic passport granted by the junta in power in Niger had increased his actions and positions against Westerners, and in particular the French State. He was also accused of being a “relay of Russian propaganda” by Renaissance MP Thomas Gassilloud, enjoying strong exposure on social networks, with a million subscribers on Facebook, where he opposes the presence of French soldiers in sub-Saharan Africa, while welcoming the intervention of mercenaries of the Wagner group in Mali.
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Pan-Africanist, his “Tribu Ka” movement, which aims to defend “black people”was dissolved in 2006 in France for “incitement to racial hatred”. He was notably accused of having threatened Jewish institutions and of having defended Youssouf Fofana, after the assassination of Ilan Halimi: “If by any chance you would want to touch even one of the brother’s hairs, instead of letting him have a fair trial, we will take care of your rabbis’ papillotes with care. »
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