Génération Kémi Séba (GKS), previously known as Tribu Ka, was a civil rights group in France. It was founded by Stellio Gilles Robert Capochichi ("Kemi Seba") in Paris in 2004.[1][2][3] The group identified itself as following Louis Farrakhan's ideology.[4][5] The French government banned the organization in July 2006 but it re-formed under a different name.
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Kémi Séba was born in Strasbourg on December 9, 1981 to immigrant parents from the Ivory Coast and Haiti. [6] He joined the Nation of Islam as an eighteen-year-old and formulated his own ideology while visiting Egypt in his twenties.[7]
In a May 2006 demonstration 20 or more Tribu Ka members marched along the Rue des Rosiers (part of a Jewish neighborhood) shouting antisemitic slogans and threatening pedestrians.[8][2][5][4] Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy dissolved Tribu Ka on July 26, 2006 but it reformed under the name Generation Kemi Seba.[1][2][3]
Sarkozy sent a letter to Justice Minister Pascal Clement saying Tribu Ka could be indicted for racist incitement. Sarkozy also said, "The public prosecution opened two investigations following the incident. The group could be targeted as a whole and its members indicted separately." On Tribu Ka's now defunct website, www.tribuka.com, the organization posted, "We will search for you (member of the Jewish Defense League) anywhere, multiplying, for as long as it takes, our patrols." SOS Racism and the French Union of Jewish Students called for Tribu Ka to be dissolved and Clement opened an investigation.[2]
French police arrested Capochichi in September 2006 for allegedly antisemitic posts on his website, and again in February 2007 after he called a public official "Zionist scum." After the initial court hearing in 2006, supporters chanted, "The judge is a Zionist, the client is a Zionist, the decision will be Zionist." A French court near Paris sentenced Chichi, who describes himself as a "militant defender of the dignity of French citizens," to five months imprisonment for criminal contempt of the law in February 2007.[1][9]
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala is a controversial French comedian who is often accused of antisemitism. Dieudonné has let Kémi Séba use a theater owned by Dieudonné to hold meetings and to put on a show (titled "Sarkophobia") but has emphasized that he doesn't share the group's ideology.[8]
After his release from the prison in July 2008, Kémi Séba announced that he had (re)converted to Islam [10] and GKS was dissolved. In March, he became the secretary general of Mouvement des damnés de l'impérialisme (MDI, "Movement of Those Damned By Imperialism"). MDI retains close ties with Hezbollah in their antisemitic campaigns.[11] In June 2009, MDI announced that Holocaust denier Serge Thion joined the movement.[12]
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