Detained on Monday in police custody at the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) on suspicion of foreign interference, black supremacist Kemi Seba was released on Wednesday without prosecution, we learn. the world before the Paris prosecutor’s office, on Thursday, October 16. His police custody, which began on Monday afternoon, was lifted at the end of Wednesday. “Investigations continue for the crime of foreign interference as part of the preliminary investigation”added the prosecutor.
According to his lawyer, Juan Branco, who strongly denounced this police arrest, Kemi Seba was interrogated within the framework of an investigation opened by “intelligence with a foreign power (…) with a view to provoking hostilities or acts of aggression against France.” – a crime punishable by thirty years in prison, he told Agence France-Presse. Kemi Seba was also questioned on suspicion of“maintain intelligence with a foreign power (…) “probably harms the fundamental interests of the nation”. Crime punishable by ten years in prison.
Hery Djehuty, coordinator of Pan-Africanist Emergencies, was also taken into police custody. According to the prosecution, he was also released without being prosecuted.
Multi-convicted and stripped of his French nationality
Real name Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, former leader of Tribe Ka, a small group that claimed to be anti-Semitic and advocated separation between blacks and whites before being disbanded by the French government in 2006, has been convicted several times in France for inciting hatred racial.
The black supremacist, then Franco-Beninese, was stripped of his French nationality in early July. Four months earlier, he had filmed himself in the suburbs of Paris burning his French passport. At the moment the reason for his arrest is unknown.
The main critic of French policy in Africa, whose activities were financed for a time by the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, the president of the NGO Urgences Panafricanistes received a diplomatic passport at the beginning of August from General Abdourahamane Tiani. “special advisor” of the head of the ruling junta of Niger. A proportionate response, according to Kemi Seba, “to the confiscation procedure of [s]a nationality committed by Françafrique against [s]to anyone »announced on the social network
In recent years, Kemi Seba, 42, has organized or participated in several demonstrations hostile to the CFA franc in Africa, where he has been periodically detained, expelled or rejected, especially in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Guinea.
In France, last year he was accused by the (renaissance) deputy Thomas Gassilloud, then president of the National Defense and Armed Forces Committee of the National Assembly, of being a “Russian propaganda broadcast” and to serve “a foreign power that fuels anti-French sentiment”.
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On Wednesday afternoon, his lawyer criticized the arrest. “violent” of his client on the street in Paris while Kemi Seba, passing through the capital with a “diplomatic passport” from Niger was in France, in particular to visit “his father”sick. “We are facing an extremely worrying situation”with a “Criminalization of a political opponent and an intellectual”Juan Branco was outraged.
