A wild story: The EU sanctioned a Swiss colonel for his words. They didn’t judge Jacques Baud. They unplugged him.

On December 15, 2025, the European Union places a 70-year-old Swiss man on a sanctions list, Jacques Baud. Former staff colonel, intelligence, UN, NATO missions in Ukraine.

Why? Because he writes books and speaks on TV. Official reason: “spokesperson for pro-Russian propaganda.” The cited example: he would have accused Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion to join NATO.

Ten lines in the Official Journal, no judge, no lawyer, no hearing.

He lives in Brussels. The next day, everything dies, accounts, credit cards, transfers. A friend is no longer allowed to send him money. Ban on entering and leaving the EU. He’s already inside.

So open-air prison.

For seven weeks, strangers bring him bread. He can check his balance. He can’t pay for anything. Not rent. Not food. Not metro.

Switzerland refuses to take back the sanction. In February 2026, Belgium, “for humanitarian reasons,” restores his right to use HIS money to eat and pay rent.

Then UBS, Swiss bank, cuts everything off anyway.

There you have it. In Europe, in 2025, you can freeze a man for a sentence, turn bread into an exemption, and let a bank do what a State refused.

That’s the story. They didn’t prove a crime. They sanctioned an analysis.

A man was unplugged for words. Bread became an exemption and the bank account, a favor.

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