Activist Expelled From Senegal Arrives In France
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 07, 2017 | 04:15 PM
A controversial west African activist expelled from Senegal for being a "threat to public order" arrived in France on Thursday, according to an airport source
ORLY, France, Sept 7 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 07th Sep, 2017 ) : A controversial west African activist expelled from Senegal for being a "threat to public order" arrived in France on Thursday, according to an airport source.
Kemi Seba, born in France to parents from Benin, was ordered to leave Senegal Tuesday following an incident last month in which he burned 5,000 CFA francs -- a banknote worth 7.6 Euros ($9.10) -- in an anti-colonial protest over "French Africa".
The 35-year-old landed at Orly airport in Paris, where a reception committee of around 20 people awaited him, the source said. Seba, whose real name is Stellio Capo Chichi, was acquitted by a Dakar court last week on the charge of destroying a banknote following a complaint by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).
However, the Senegalese interior ministry took the decision to expel him, saying "his presence on national territory represents a serious threat to public order". The former leader of the Ka tribe -- a group that was dissolved in 2006 in France, particularly for anti-Semitism -- was arrested at his home in the Senegalese capital in August.
After spending five days in detention, Seba was released along with another member of his Urgences Panafricanistes movement who was being held for providing him with a lighter.
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