“These sanctions have the potential to produce effects, but the lack of follow-up weakens them. Their leverage risks diminishing as they become less credible,” said Jean-Antoine Mathias Laureus this Wednesday, November 26, on Magik 9.

Invited to react to the visa restrictions imposed on presidential adviser Fritz Alphonse Jean for his alleged ties to gangs, Professor Laureus insists on the need for solid evidence. “What I want to see today are concrete elements proving that Fritz Jean would be in collusion with gangs, because the sanctions already applied often rely on mere legitimate suspicions. I see no indication that could make me believe that a former central bank governor, a writer like him, would be involved in such a matter. If this is proven, it would be extremely serious,” he said.