diff --git a/java-frontend/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/model/SyntacticEquivalence.java b/java-frontend/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/model/SyntacticEquivalence.java
index 2e557aee865..4a06078a640 100644
--- a/java-frontend/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/model/SyntacticEquivalence.java
+++ b/java-frontend/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/model/SyntacticEquivalence.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.function.BiPredicate;
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
-import org.sonar.java.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import org.sonar.plugins.java.api.semantic.Symbol;
 import org.sonar.plugins.java.api.semantic.Type;
 import org.sonar.plugins.java.api.tree.IdentifierTree;