Kemi Seba’s press conference, scheduled for this Saturday March 16 in France, took place. The Franco-Beninese pan-Africanist activist is the subject of proceedings aimed at withdrawing his French nationality. He therefore summoned his supporters and the press to explain himself today. A prefectural decree had banned the gathering, but administrative justice overturned this decision.
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The decision of the administrative court of Versailles is clear: the prefectural ban order reads “ a serious and manifestly illegal attack on freedom of expression and freedom of assembly “. The prefecture had banned the gathering due to the risk of disturbing public order.
The court therefore ruled in favor of Kemi Seba. A decision with a taste of victory, hailed by the activist on social networks.
“ The French government did everything to ban the press conference open to the public, it didn’t work », notes the person concerned. “ The period when the colonial oligarchy could silence black populations who refused injunctions to submit, he adds, this period is over. »
Today, we are in a new cycle, and it is the cycle of self-determination and the dignity of our people.
Kemi Seba was therefore able to “ respond to the French government ”, in his own words. This was the objective of this press conference.
The Franco-Beninese activist is the target of a procedure aimed at withdrawing his French nationality. The Ministry of the Interior accuses him of “ a resolutely anti-French posture “.
For 20 years, he has criticized the presence of France and Westerners in Africawhich he describes as “ neo-colonialism “. He is also suspected of having received financial support from the Russian Wagner militia between 2018 and 2019.
Kemi Seba has been convicted several times in France for provoking racial hatred and violence in meetings. He is also the former leader of Tribu Ka, a small anti-Semitic group advocating separation between blacks and whites, dissolved by the government in 2006. This Saturday evening, Kemi Seba burned his French passport.
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