The leader of Unidas Podemos, Ione Belarra, met on November 5 at the Congress of Deputies with Kemi Seba, head of Pan-Africanist Emergencies and former leader of the Ka tribe, a small, openly anti-Semitic and segregationist group dissolved by French authorities in 2006.
Ione Belarra, the philosopher Javier Sánchez Jerna and the analyst Esther Miranda received Kemi Seba and the team from the organization Urgences Panafricanistes to address the questions of the neoliberal oligarchy “in the face of Western neocolonialism and social injustice. The Pan-African leader also underlined that the beginning of a long cycle of resistance has begun and that this meeting with the Podemos deputy is the starting point of a “long collaboration with a party which has the same concern for class struggle” . and the oppression of the proletariat (whether black or white).”
Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, better known as Kemi Seba, was born in 1981 in Strasbourg, to Beninese parents naturalized French, and was the leader of Tribu Ka, an association which created in 2006 caused serious anti-Semitic incidents during a demonstration in the heart of the Jewish district of Marais, where provocative acts were committed, for these violent episodes, he was sentenced to prison. The Ka tribe was dissolved in 2006 by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. However, when he managed to get out of prison, he attempted to found another movement to continue his radical discourse.
Wagner Group Funding Allegations
He is currently the current leader of the organization Urgences Panafricanistes, which defines itself as an NGO in “defense of the rights of black people, specializing in issues related to sovereignty, neocolonialism and the promotion of social justice. Seba has become a character in France for his continued radical comments. On numerous occasions, he has organized demonstrations to protest against the CFA franc in Africa, even burning a 5,000 CFA franc note in 2017 and claiming that the World Bank, the IMF and the WHO are in the hands of “Zionists” which impose on Africa. and its diaspora “experience living conditions so excretory that the Auschwitz concentration camp would seem like a paradise on earth”.
In 2023, the deputy Thomas Gassilloud, then president of the defense committee of the National Assembly, accused Seba of being a substitute for “Russian propaganda” and of serving “a foreign power which fuels anti-French sentiment” . According to various investigations, Seba would have received 400,000 euros, between 2018 and 2019, from the Wagner groupthe Russian paramilitary organization, now established in Mali. His ties with Russia have also been marked by statements in which he praised Vladimir Putin, saying he “does not have the blood of slavery and colonization on his hands.”
France withdrew his nationality last July for his convictions for violence, threats, incitement to racial hatred and his anti-Semitic speeches, but above all for “stirring up anti-French sentiment in West African countries”. Seba now has a diplomatic passport issued by the Nigerien junta.
