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Who is Sylvain Afoua, the sulphurous president of the African Black Defense League?

2021-09-14T20:02:01.751Z


PORTRAIT - Convicted of rape in 2014 and then noticed several times for brutal actions, this brawling activist has become known for his racialist claims. The Minister of the Interior has just initiated the dissolution of his movement.


He calls himself Egountchi Behanzin, takes care of his activist look by giving himself the appearance of a paramilitary leader of an African revolutionary movement, with his beret screwed on his head and his giant sunglasses. Sounds like a bad parody of the Black Panthers. But to the army jacket, he preferred the most cautious sweatshirt stamped with the "

arms

" of his movement, the Black African Defense League (LDNA), a mysterious small group of turbulent activists who now claim to be "

followed by a million people in all on social networks

”(according to a questionable calculation method which consists in adding up the virtual communities gathered by the LDNA on the various platforms where it is present).

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His real name Sylvain Afoua, this noisy activist never ceases to shout on television sets his grievances against France, a "

racialist

" country ruled by "

negrophobic

"

ministers

.

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Source: lefigaro

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