Kemi Seba was arrested in Paris. According to information from RFI, Le Monde and AFP, the Beninese activist was arrested on Monday October 14 in the French capital. The polemicist, known for his anti-Western positions and for his links with Russia, was stripped of his French nationality last July. The reason for his arrest remains unknown.
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The arrest of Kemi Seba on Monday October 14 in the heart of Paris was confirmed to RFI on Tuesday afternoon by a first diplomatic source and a second security source based in the capital.
In a press release published Monday evening on the official Kemi Seba page, it is indicated that Kemi Seba and his right-hand man Hery Djehuty were arrested by agents of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) and that the charges retained against them will be communicated at a press conference in the coming hours.
On July 8, the Council of State validated the forfeiture of nationality of the neo-Pan African activist, originally from Strasbourg, the Ministry of the Interior accusing him of behavior and comments which “ reveal a constant, resolutely anti-French posture “.
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In reaction, the 42-year-old polemicist judged this withdrawal of citizenship as “ recognition for his political work against Françafrique “.
The following month, the CNSP junta in Niger, openly hostile to France, issued him a Nigerien diplomatic passport.
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Real name Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, Kemi Seba presents himself as an anti-colonial activist whose main adversaries are France and the West.
In recent years, it has become closer to the Kremlin’s Russian networks, which has led to it being defined as a “Russian propaganda relay” by the ruling party in France.
Last year, the magazine Young Africa detailed his links with Yevgeny Prigozhin, late leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, which allowed him, according to the newspaper, to collect more than $400,000 between 2018 and 2019.
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