Controversial West African activist Kemi Seba detained in Paris The 42-year-old pan-Africanist militant, whose real name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, has been sentenced in France several times for incitement to racial hatred. The bounds for the arrest on Monday was not immediately known.
Seba, born in France to parents from Benin, is a radical black power activist who is regularly charged of anti-Semitism. He was stripped of his French nationality in July.
In March, the prefecture of the Essonne department attempted to taboo a conference by Seba.
In the immediate aftermath, Kemi Seba posted a video online in which he burned a document he identified as his French passport, the newspaper L'Essor de la gendarmerie reported Tuesday.
Seba is the former leader of the Tribu Ka, a small group that claimed to be anti-Semitic and proposed the breach of blacks and whites before being dissolved by the French government in 2006.
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He currently heads the Urgences panafricanistes group and enjoys a strong presence on social networks.
Seba has publicly eulogised Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring "he doesn't have the blood of slavery and colonisation on his hands".
Since the beginning of August, he has publicised a diplomatic passport issued by the junta in Niger.
Seba announced on Facebook the passport had been issued "in view of the fight I have been waging for 25 years for Africa, at the risk of my life".
In recent years, Kemi Seba has hosted or taken part in several demonstrations against the Financial Community of Africa (CFA franc), where he has regularly been arrested, expelled or twisted back.
Seba has also had brushes with the law in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Guinea over perceived slights to their leaders.
Last year, the activist was alleged by lawmaker Thomas Gassilloud, then chairman of the National Assembly's defence committee, of being a mouthpiece "for Russian propaganda" and serving "a foreign power that fuels anti-French sentiment".
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Published 10/17/2024