diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4937171..f6165c2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 [submodule "third-party/pybind11"]
 	path = third-party/pybind11
 	url = https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git
 [submodule "third-party/googletest"]
 	path = third-party/googletest
 	url = https://github.com/google/googletest.git
-[submodule "third-party/expolit"]
-	path = third-party/expolit
-	url = https://c4science.ch/source/expolit.git
 [submodule "tests/ci/scripts"]
 	path = tests/ci/scripts
 	url = https://c4science.ch/diffusion/HBMJCI/hbm-jenkins-ci.git
diff --git a/third-party/expolit b/third-party/expolit
deleted file mode 160000
index 5f68da4..0000000
--- a/third-party/expolit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 5f68da4ee972156d8676cd645e25fab984ecc75a