The 42-year-old pan-Africanist militant, whose existent sanction is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, has been sentenced successful France respective times for incitement to radical hatred. The crushed for the apprehension connected Monday was not instantly known.
Seba, calved successful France to parents from Benin, is simply a extremist achromatic powerfulness activistic who is regularly accused of anti-Semitism. He was stripped of his French nationality successful July.
In March, the prefecture of the Essonne section attempted to prohibition a league by Seba.
In the contiguous aftermath, Kemi Seba posted a video online successful which helium burned a papers helium identified arsenic his French passport, the paper L'Essor de la gendarmerie reported Tuesday.
Incitement to radical hatred
Seba is the erstwhile person of the Tribu Ka, a tiny radical that claimed to beryllium anti-Semitic and advocated the separation of blacks and whites earlier being dissolved by the French government successful 2006.
He presently heads the Urgences panafricanistes radical and enjoys a beardown beingness connected societal networks.
Seba has publically praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying "he doesn't person the humor of slavery and colonisation connected his hands".
Since the opening of August, helium has held a diplomatic passport issued by the junta successful Niger.
Seba said connected Facebook the passport had been issued "in presumption of the combat I person been waging for 25 years for Africa, astatine the hazard of my life".
In caller years, Kemi Seba has organised oregon taken portion successful respective demonstrations against the Financial Community of Africa (CFA franc), wherever helium has regularly been arrested, expelled oregon turned back.
Seba has besides had brushes with the instrumentality successful Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Guinea implicit perceived slights to their leaders.
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Last year, the activistic was accused by lawmaker Thomas Gassilloud, past president of the National Assembly's defence committee, of being a mouthpiece "for Russian propaganda" and serving "a overseas powerfulness that fuels anti-French sentiment".
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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