Cabinet refutes claims of Minister Radegonde’s possible link to Gerard Hoarau’s death |05 August 2023

Cabinet has condemned and deplored what it has described as “the baseless suggestion” in a local newspaper that Minister Sylvestre Radegonde might be linked to the death of Gerard Hoarau.  

This was during the scheduled cabinet briefing chaired by President Wavel Ramkalawan on Wednesday this week, at which a number of policy memoranda were approved.

“Cabinet confirmed the request from the Scotland Yard to interview some Seychellois citizens in relation to the death of Gerard Hoarau, but that Minister Radegonde was not one of those citizens,” says a press release from the Office of the President. 

“Cabinet considers such baseless innuendo as a personal attack on the integrity of a member of cabinet,” adds the press release. 

Cabinet reiterated that the Seychelles authorities will cooperate with Scotland Yard in the said investigation.

Gérard Hoarau (December 7, 1950 – November 29, 1985) was an exiled opposition leader and was head of the Mouvement Pour La Resistance (MPR) that sought the overthrow of the France Albert René regime which had come to power on June 5, 1977 in a coup d'état.

The opposition was based in London.

Hoarau was assassinated on November 29, 1985 by an unidentified gunman, on the doorstep of his home in Edgware, in North London. He was 34 years old then.

The British police have never solved his murder, but it is claimed that the René government was highly implicated.