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Jean-Claude de l’Estrac
- Nation mauricienne à la créole ou à la française ?
Le quotidien l’Express se montre sans scrupules en poussant la vente des idées perverses d’un mégalomane, fondamentaliste, extrémiste et manipulateur comme Jean-Claude de l’Estrac qui n’a jamais accepté d’être contredit et a supprimé toute tentative de débat, le fondement même du fascisme intellectuel.
COMMUNIST JEAN CLAUDE DE L'ESTRAC - MEDIA WHORE!
Apprenez que tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l’écoute, et ce n’est pas de moi, bien sûr ! Éditorialiste «observateur de la société» et qui «cernait les enjeux et anticipait les événements», mon œil ! On dirait que Jean-Claude de l’Estrac tient le monopole de l’observation et le voir couronné par certains en brave pourfendeur des « ennemis de la démocratie » et des «démons» n’est plus une flatterie, mais tout simplement une ânerie pontifiante ! À en juger par son totale ignorance de la pratique électorale frauduleuse qui se pratique aux Etats-Unis, au Royaume Uni et en France où les candidats (y compris l’Afro-Américain Barack Hussein Obama) se font valider par les lobbies juifs tout-puissants avant de se présenter, on ne peut lui faire confiance de tomber juste en ce qui concerne les affaires politiques et sociales de Maurice alors qu’on le voit maintenant obnubilé par l’afro centrisme quand il a vu qu’il ne fait plus mouche avec la négritude ou la créolitude.
Un Créole catholique au post suprême
Il faut être idiot pour se demander « si un homme d’origine africaine aurait pu prétendre au poste suprême à Maurice ». Il y a prétendre et obtenir. C’est quoi cette origine africaine ? Le prêtre Jocelyn Grégoire de la Fédération des Créoles Mauriciens (FCM), tout comme J-C de l’Estrac, pense que l’homme d’origine africaine doit nécessairement être créole, car le terme créole a une connotation d’esclave africain mais, d’après les racistes, uniquement Catholique et non Musulman ou Hindou. Nous avions un Créole catholique, Karl Offman, comme Président mais une fois au ‘pouvoir’ qu’a-t-il fait ? En bon serviteur et aux ordres des grands Blancs, il a démissionné après un an pour aider son bon maître le Franco-Mauricien Paul Bérenger à accéder au poste suprême de Maurice en 2003. Et, ce prétentieux de J-C de l’Estrac était son complice.
Le boycott de la liberté d’expression
Le «mauricianisme» de J-C de l’Estrac n’est finalement que du vent car synonyme de « créolité » (deux termes qui restent toujours à définir !) on en est encore à des années lumière de l’idée de nation. Pour induire les Mauriciennes et le Mauriciens en erreur, oui, c’est un maestro car on l’a bien vu assidûment à l’œuvre avec sa politique militante pro-Bérenger et anti-travailliste, et de créolité qu’il ne cesse de propager dans les colonnes de l’Express (de La Sentinelle Ltée) où il était éditorialiste à pensée unique pendant plus d’une dizaine d’années et qui se plaisait à boycotter la liberté d’expression des autres qui ont eu le courage de le contredire, de démentir et d’exposer sa politique créoliste et anti-musulman où l’Express a amplement démontré sa haine viscérale et sa politique raciste contre tout parti islamique comme ce fut le cas du parti Hezbullah de Muhammad Suhail Fakeemeeah (Cehl Meeah) tant diabolisé par la presse où « des idées contradictoires et des thèses opposées » ne furent jamais permises. J-C de l’Estrac était bien le promoteur et défenseur farouche des mouvements créolistes, comme le FCM de Jocelyne Grégoire.
L’article de Vel Moonien « La Sentinelle publie «Une idée de la nation» de Jean-Claude de l’Estrac », l’Express du 7 mai 2012, publié dans l’esprit de faire vendre ou d’encourager les lectrices et lecteurs à lire la « sélection de 100 éditoriaux de Jean-Claude de l’Estrac » fait vomir quand on voit comment l’Express se montre sans scrupules en poussant la vente des idées perverses d’un mégalomane, fondamentaliste, extrémiste et manipulateur comme Jean-Claude de l’Estrac qui n’a jamais accepté d’être contredit et a supprimé toute tentative de débat, le fondement même du fascisme intellectuel. Parlant de «démons», n’est-ce pas sa politique diabolique et infecte qui a poussé le gouvernement du Dr Navin Ramgoolam, à tort ou à raison, à boycotter l’Express concernant les allocations publicitaires? L’Express, jadis outil indispensable et conservateur des valeurs des anciens, devint vite un quotidien à pensée unique, mais, comme le quotidien « The Sun » en Angleterre, décrit comme le «gutter press», l’Express a toujours un fort tirage, donc sûrement d’autres ‘qualités’. Lui dire ses quatre vérités ne fera que rendre service aux lectrices et lecteurs de ce quotidien d’utilité publique.
Faux défenseur de la démocratie
J-C de l’Estrac n’a jamais défendu la démocratie car, alors qu’il était l’émissaire de Paul Bérenger du MMM auprès du Premier Ministre travailliste le Dr Navin Ramgoolam, son but fut de forger une alliance entre les deux plus grands partis pour une dictature absolue. Mais, en même temps, par la psychologie inverse, il prétend reprocher à Paul Bérenger d’avoir, dans le passé, contracter une alliance avec Navin Ramgoolam. Il rend Bérenger responsable pour «avoir installé les travaillistes au pouvoir». Comment peut-on tomber aussi bas ? C’est tout à fait faux parce que le Parti Travailliste constitue déjà le plus grand parti. Mais de l’Estrac ne rend Bérenger nullement responsable d’avoir, dans le passé, surtout à travers le pacte à l’israélienne entre le MMM de Bérenger et le MSM d’Anerood Jugnauth en 2000, ‘installé le MSM au pouvoir’ car ce dernier n’avait qu’environ 3% de l’électorat. Il est aussi silencieux sur les détails du présent «Remake 2000» entre le MMM et le MSM après la démission de SAJ comme Président. Mais, l’Express ne lui suffisant pas, il étend ses tentacules dans le Mauritius Times (27 avril 2012) dans le but d’attirer les Indo-Mauriciens en grand nombre au meeting MMM du 1er mai 2012 ayant pour objectif de provoquer la chute du gouvernement travailliste, mais il a échoué misérablement. Dans le même hebdomadaire, son collègue Yvan Martial tenta de diviser les Hindous dans les régions rurales aux bénéfices du MMM.
Vu qu’il se prend pour Créole, à la française bien sûr, et non africaine et prétend que la langue créole des esclaves serait devenue une « institution » à Maurice avec ses 70% d’Indo-Mauriciens, il est cependant normal qu’il milite pour un dictateur d’origine africaine, mais lequel? That is the question ! Et de quelle religion? Le toutou à son maître toujours derrière la politique de division du Franco-Mauricien Paul Bérenger, lui même ayant été Ministre MMM sous Bérenger.
Politique anti-Musulmane
Se référant au rapport de janvier 2012 de Rama Sithanen sur la réforme électorale, on nous rappelle les années messianiques où le Prophète Jean-Claude de l’Estrac, il y a de cela 14 ans, quand il avait demandé à Rama Sithanen, ancien Ministre MSM (plus tard travailliste), de se pencher sur la réforme électorale et «la plaie qu’est le Best Loser System au mauricianisme», un système conçu pour protéger les minorités parmi les non-élus dans le but d’avoir un parlement qui reflète la diversité de la population. Il va sans dire que dans son rapport de janvier 2012, Rama Sithanen a effectivement proposé l’abolition du Best Loser System (BLS) à travers des analyses erronées et ses fausses formules mathématiques. Constituant environ 28% de la population, les Mauriciens d’origine africaine et malgache, dont en fait partie J-C de l’Estrac malgré son nom d’homme blanc «de l’Estrac» (comme «de Spéville» et «de Chazal», sont une (deuxième) majorité qui se dit «Créole», ceci afin de se rapprocher des Blancs. Ils ne peuvent donc être considérés comme une minorité, ce qui explique leur obsession de voir abolir le Best Loser System qui, d’après de l’Estrac et Sithanen, ne profite qu’aux Musulmans qui forment réellement une minorité avec seulement 18% de la population. Il n’est pas surprenant que Sithanen dépende de l’Express pour faire passer ses abracadabrantes inepties et ses mensonges. À noter que durant les années qui précédaient l’indépendance, les Créoles catholiques étaient en majorité dans le gouvernement, le Service Civil, l’éducation, et ils souffrent toujours de cette nostalgie comme le démontre clairement J-C de l’Estrac.
J-C de l’Estrac fausse la définition de «nation»
Pour J-C de l’Estrac, le «mauricianisme» se trouve autour de la «créolité», gravitant autour un parlé créole infect et écrit abominablement, une politique raciste française importée à Maurice, dont il se fait le porte parole. Sa tentative de définir sa «nation» mauricienne ou mauricianniste est désarmante. Il apporte la ‘définition’ suivante: «Parler de la nation, c’est d’abord comprendre qu’elle est faite de l’agglomération de gens et d’intérêts divers. C’est un lieu disparate où s’affrontent des idées contradictoires et des thèses opposées». Puis il dit que :«La nation existe bel et bien, en revanche, quand les convergences et les filiations dominent les différences». Parle-t-il du concept de la nation à la française ou à l’anglaise ? Et, pourquoi pas à l’africaine ou à l’indienne? Le dictionnaire Oxford donne la définition suivante de «nation»: «Distinct race of people having common descent, language, history». Vu que la langue officielle de Maurice est l’anglais, de l’Estrac devrait s’exprimer plutôt en anglais avant d’essayer de donner des leçons aux autres. La grande majorité des Mauriciens ne verront sûrement dans la « sélection de 100 éditoriaux de Jean-Claude de l’Estrac » que d’abominables et flagrants mensonges et tentatives de manipulation politiciennes.
M Rafic Soormally
Londres
13 mai 2012
Jean-Claude de l’Estrac
parle des bienfaits du colonialisme français à Maurice !
Les Mauriciens se trompent;
Jean Claude de l’Estrac a raison ! Il est fort triste qu’à Maurice nous n’ayons
pas un Alain Soral pour rabattre le caquet à ce freluquet qui vit toujours à
côté de ses pompes alors que l’esclavage fut aboli il y a fort longtemps, ainsi
qu’à d’autres, y compris l’église catholique, qui ne cesse de haranguer ses
troupes pour les pousser à se créoliser.
Jean-Claude de l’Estrac, ancien Ministre MMM et journaliste à l’Express
(Sentinelle Ltée)
Dans une « démocratie », la liberté d’opinion et d’expression s’exprime par
l’intermédiaire d’une presse libre et indépendante du pouvoir politique.
Or l’Express de Jean-Claude de l’Estrac ne reflète pas l’opinion publique (dans
sa diversité), informe et éduque mal avec une malhonnêteté
déconcertante. Ces fachos intellectuels issus de l’esclavagerie française
(et britannique) comme Jean-Claude de l’Estrac croient toujours au Père
Noël. Vu le nom qu’il porte toujours, et dont il ne s’est toujours pas
encore affranchi, lui, il peut mettre de côté ses origines propres, car il les
récuse et en a honte, les trouvant de qualité trop inférieure à son goût.
C’est le cas typique du colonisé qui refuse toute émancipation. Mais, ce
n’est pas le cas d’autres Mauriciens qui, en dépit du fait qu’ils se rattachent
toujours aux « valeurs » coloniales, tiennent absolument à leurs origines
ancestrales d’où leur vient cette indomptable force qui a traversé les âges
depuis la nuit des temps et a fait ses preuves. Je parle, bien évidemment
en qualité d’Hindoustannais né accidentellement, et non par choix, dans une
colonie britannique. Mais, apparemment, Jean-Claude de l’Estrac ne
partage pas ces origines car les siennes il ne les a plus, ne les ayant plus
voulues, vu qu’il a passé sa vie journalistique à vouloir à tout pris se
rapprocher des origines des esclavagistes d’antan, donc de la France
d’aujourd’hui en particulier et de l’occident en général.
C’est par racisme que les coloniaux n’ont pas voulu que nous conservions
nos passeports britanniques nous ayant jugés de « race » inférieure. Il
est fort triste qu’à Maurice nous n’ayons pas un Alain Soral pour rabattre le
caquet à ce freluquet qui vit toujours à côté de ses pompes alors que
l’esclavage fut aboli il y a fort longtemps, ainsi qu’à d’autres, y compris
l’église catholique, qui ne cesse de haranguer ses troupes pour les pousser à
se créoliser. Même le titre de cet article paru dans le quotidien à
pensée unique de la main d’un certain Jérôme Boulle, le 20 mai 2012, un autre
quidam, l’un de ses semblables, est trompeur. Quand Jean-Claude de
l’Estrac fait une déclaration pareille, selon Jérôme Boulle, que « La nation est plus forte que beaucoup
d’entre nous s’imaginent », je n’y vois que fourberie. D’ailleurs je
me demande si la syntaxe est correcte. Il faudra que je consulte Me
Jacques Capelovici à ce sujet car j’aurais écrit « que beaucoup d’entre nous ne l’imaginent » ! Mais, ne soyons
pas trop sévère, et passons au vif du sujet.
Quand Jean-Claude de l’Estrac dit que « La nation est plus forte », cela ne
veut-il pas dire qu’il existe donc bel et bien une nation ? Pourtant, il
n’est pas si sûr que les lectrices et lecteurs comprennent de quoi il parle, et
il nous donne donc sa définition de « ce qu’est une nation » en récusant toute
« définition particulière ». Mais, ne l’oublions pas qu’il écrit en
français et qu’il est un défenseur farouche de la créolitude (négritude pour
d’autres), donc ce sera une définition bien française qu’il va nous proposer
(balancer), voulant dire par cela que c’est la seule au monde, bien entendu.
J-C de l’Estrac : « La nation
n’est rien d’autre que ce lieu et ce milieu où un groupe de gens ont choisi de
vivre et de construire leur avenir notamment parce qu’ils partagent un certain
nombre de valeurs en commun et une volonté de vivre-ensemble indépendamment de
leurs origines. »
Observations
(1) La nation n’est pas un « lieu »
ou un « milieu ». De l’Estrac
confond l’espace géographique et le pays avec la notion de « nation ».
(2) Il parle d’« un groupe de gens »
comme s’il s’agissait d’un troupeau d’animaux de la même espèce !
(3) Il nous dit que ce groupe a « choisi
de vivre et de construire leur avenir ». Choisi ? Qu’il parle
pour lui ! Les Malgaches, les Africains et la majorité des Hindoustannais
Indiens n’ont pas choisi de vivre dans cette ancienne esclavagerie et colonie
occidentale. Certes, certains commerçants chinois et hindoustannais y
sont venus de leur propre chef.
(4) « Ils partagent un certain
nombre de valeurs en commun ». Nous aimerions bien savoir
lesquelles.
(5) « une volonté de vivre-ensemble
indépendamment de leurs origines » - Un canard signé de l’Estrac !
J-C de
l’Estrac : « L’Etat mauricien n’existe que
depuis 1968, mais la nation, elle, existe depuis trois siècles. »
Observation
En fait, J-C de l’Estrac veut maintenant nous vendre une nation bien
française qui date de l’époque esclavagiste où il peint les esclavagistes en
gentils « engagés » ! Des racistes gentils et de
gentils « colons français arrivés à l’île
de France, à titre d’engagés, les ouvriers, maçons, perruquiers, soldats, menuisiers,
briquettiers… », des bienfaiteurs du colonialisme, quoi !
J-C de l’Estrac : « J’enrage
d’entendre dire, y compris par des hommes politiques, que la nation mauricienne
n’existe pas, qu’elle est à construire. Elle existe, et elle est même bien plus
forte que les Mauriciens sont prêts à reconnaître. »
Observations
(1) Syntaxe, mon ami, syntaxe ! Ne sont prêts à le reconnaître ! En voilà
un historien bien enragé ! Jean-Claude de l’Estrac (ancien Ministre du
Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM)) a dû sûrement lu mes articles que lui et
d’autres ne cessent de boycotter, y compris celui de la semaine dernière (13
mai 2012) que j’ai envoyé à l’express (« Jean-Claude
de l’Estrac - Nation mauricienne à la créole ou à la française ? »,
boycotté, bien entendu, pour être si enragé, car je n’ai pas vu d’autres
objections d’envergure en dehors des miennes dans la presse écrite qui pourrait
justifier un tel enragement ponctuel ! Au lieu de s’enrager,
pourquoi ne pas laisser les lectrices entendre un autre son de cloche ?
Toute la classe politique de l’époque fut unanime que la nation mauricienne
était à construire. Cette intention fut même mise en chanson, en patois
mauricien et en Bhojpouri.
(2) « Un seul peuple, une seule nation
» - Dans l’article « Aimé Césaire -
Indépendance ou émancipation », publié dans le Matinal du 10 avril 2012,
mais boycotté par l’Express, bien sûr, il est rappelé que « le concept d’un
seul peuple et d’une seule nation tire ses origines bien avant le MMM, à
l’époque du Mouvement d’Entente Nationale dont le Dr Raman fut l’un des
principaux promoteurs. La chanson en patois : « Donne to la main, prend mo la
main, la main dans la main » scella ce projet. En Bhojpuri : « Dé tohar hant, lau hamar hant, hanto mé
hant, chalo basawé, jathi mauricien » - Donne-moi ta main et prend la
mienne ; la main dans la main, construisons ensemble la nation mauricienne ! »
J-C de l’Estrac : « les
engagés indiens, qui avaient le choix de rentrer chez eux décident d’y
rester. »
Observation
Le choix ? Comment peut-on être aussi malhonnête de déformer ainsi
l’histoire ? J-C de l’Estrac ne fait que propager les mensonges de
ses maîtres. La période coloniale française et celle de l’Angleterre sont
deux périodes bien distinctes qu’on ne peut mélanger, et de voir de l’Estrac
faire l’amalgame de ces deux périodes est révoltant. Mais, il est
tout à fait inutile de faire un cours d’histoire à ce monsieur car ce n’est
qu’un propagandiste !
« La nation, la
citoyenneté, l’éthique. Ces sujets ne sont pas souvent débattus. »
Observations
(1) Comment peut-t-on débattre de quoi que ce soit quand J-C de l’Estrac
a passé sa vie d’éditorialiste à empêcher tout débat à et à boycotter tout avis
contraire. Et, puis, qui définit pour les Mauriciens le sens et la notion
(le concept) de « nation », de « citoyenneté » et d’« éthique » ?
Qui en a l’autorité absolue ? La France, l’Angleterre et l’Europe, le
Christianisme, l’Hindouisme ou l’Islam ?
(2) Vu le nombre de désinformateurs dans le milieu enseignant, de faux
prophètes, et de propagandistes dans les médias, il est normal que le
Mauricien, en général, ne sait toujours pas le vrai sens des termes comme :
peuple, nation, société, ethnie, état, citoyen, république, démocratie, loi,
justice, égalité, morale, éthique, religion, spiritualité, usure, corporation,
culture, langue, patois, instruction, éducation, etc. ?
(3) Il est étonnant de voir J’C de l’Estrac parler à la « nation » au nom d’une
nation de sa propre fabrication alors que les Mauriciens, que je sache,
ne bénéficie toujours d’aucune instruction civique à l’école, conçue par les
Français anti-cléricaux pour diffuser une morale athée qui devait remplacer à
long terme l’institution morale et religieuse.
(3) J-C de l’Estrac ne respecte ni l’éthique journalistique ni celle de
l’historien, et se met à sermonner les autres sur le sujet. Pourtant, il
reconnaît lui-même (selon ses sources) « l’échec
de l’école », le « contenu de
l’instruction publique, un contenu médiocre rendu plus dérisoire encore …
». « Ceux qui n’ont que
l’école pour espérer s’en sortir – les plus pauvres, les plus démunis
culturellement et socialement, réalisent rarement leurs rêves. Là est aussi
l’échec de l’école de la république… »
(4) Si l’école de maintenant est en faillite, selon lui, qu’en fut-il il y a
trois siècles de cela où le racisme français interdisait aux gens de couleur
non blanche d’avoir accès à l’enseignement ? Les pseudos intellectuels
mauriciens me font marrer quand ils ne font que répéter ces slogans vides de
sens : république, valeurs républicaines, l’esprit républicain, citoyen,
citoyenneté, démocratie, humanisme, philosophie de tolérance, modernité,
nation, état, etc.
(5) J-C de l’Estrac ne sait toujours pas que la « modernité » n’est qu’un
mythe. L’endoctrinement par l’église catholique ayant cessé à
l’école (sauf dans les écoles confessionnelles), ce vide n’avait pas été
remplacé, et le peuple a ainsi pris beaucoup de retard à construire une
véritable nation mauricienne, une nation morale, solidaire, égalitaire, libre
et éprise de justice, dans la mesure du possible. Sans une instruction
civique, il est quasiment impossible de bâtir une nation ordonnée et un amour
pour son pays et ses peuples ainsi que leurs cultures, d’inculquer un sentiment
de reconnaissance, d’attachement, de dévouement au pays, et non une simple
tolérance, ce qui exclut la communauté blanche qui, par culture ou simple
racisme, vit, depuis des siècles, à l’écart des autres communautés, sauf, bien
sûr, quand il s’agit de les faire travailler.
(6) En parlant de valeurs, nous aimerions bien savoir lesquelles, car jusqu’à
maintenant on n’a cessé de nous bassiner avec les valeurs « laïques » et
matérialistes des chauvinistes français racistes, intolérants, etc. Il
nous faut apprendre aux « citoyens » les mécanismes du vote, des élections, du
fonctionnement de l’administration, de la justice et du gouvernement, etc.
(7) Mais, avant de parler de nation, il nous faut des terrains d’entente
concernant cette morale, et non pondre des manuels d’instruction civique et
morale d’ordre sectaire, politisées, et sans exclure l’autre sous des prétextes
divers.
« Des
préoccupations d’ordre communautariste empêchent la mise en œuvre d’une réforme
électorale qui permettrait au pays d’adopter un mode d’élection plus équitable.
Pensez-vous que c’est juste que le Best Loser system soit une entrave au
progrès ? »
Observation
Maurice a la fâcheuse tendance de répéter et faire siens des termes
utilisés à l’étranger dans des contextes tout à fait différents, par exemple,
ce terme « communautariste ». Le « pluralisme ethnique » est une réalité
et ne demande pas une reconnaissance officielle. Ce serait absurde car il
ne pose aucun problème aux différentes ethnies qui cohabitent déjà alors qu’une
poignée de pseudo intellectuels essaient de semer la zizanie dans le pays en
créant la division et incitant à la haine de l’autre, soutenu souvent par
certains médias. La croisade contre le « Best Loser System » vise
plus particulièrement la communauté musulmane.
« Jean-Claude de
l’Estrac qui a été éditorialiste, auteur d’ouvrages sur l’histoire de Maurice »
Observation
À revoir au microscope ou avec des lunettes! Si Jean Claude de
l’Estrac veut vraiment aider les Mauriciens, il lui faudra déjà commencer par
cesser de débiter des mensonges ou des âneries comme cette nation mauricienne
qui daterait de trois siècles ! Il ferait mieux d’étudier les facteurs
sociaux, culturels, politiques, et surtout religieux, qui vont nous aider à
formuler une instruction morale qui saura réunir tous les composants de la
société sur des valeurs communes décidées par consensus et par des débats
publiques libres, et non par imposition de l’État ou par lui et ses semblables.
M Rafic Soormally
Londres
22 mai 2012
DEUX POIDS DEUX MESURES
TO CONVICT MUSLIMS MAURITIUS HINDUCRACY DOES NOT NEED EVIDENCE!
L’Amicale Casino: Supreme Court allows the resumption of demolition of building
13
years have already elapsed since the L’Amicale fire which caused seven
deaths. For years, the demolition of this building is a subject of
dispute between the tenants, the owner and the municipality of
Port-Louis. This week, the Supreme Court authorized the resumption of
work for its demolition.
The building of the L’Amicale will finally be demolished. This week,
the Supreme Court decided to allow the resumption of demolition work at
the rue Royale, Port-Louis. One of the tenants applied for an injunction
last week against the decision to destroy this building. The Supreme
Court had then refused the injunction. And had issued an order for the
work to continue.
For the last ten years, the Municipality of Port Louis and the
tenants are confronting each other in the Supreme Court. On several
occasions, the tenants obtained deadlines to avoid the imposition of a
“Pull Down Order”. But these protests have been rejected. The demolition
work began on last May 12.
At the call of the case, the judge rejected the motion, aligning to
the position of the building owner and of the municipality of
Port-Louis. L’Amicale is a den of thugs and a public danger, since the
building may collapse at any time. The building which contained a gaming
house had been engulfed in flames 13 years ago. Work by PAD CO Ltd will
resume next week following the decision of the Supreme Court.
On May 23, 1999, l’Amicale witnessed a tragedy where four persons
were killed. Fans after a football match turned into incendiaries. They
set fire to the gaming house. Seven charred corpses were discovered,
including a pregnant woman of eight months.
Four suspects have been arrested and brought in the Court of Assizes.
They are Sheik Imran Sumodhee, his brother Khaleeloodeen, Abdool Naseem
Keeramuth and Mahmade Shaffick Nawoor. They have been imprisoned for 45
years WITHOUT AN IOTA OF EVIDENCE!
PARADISE ISLAND, MY FOOT!
The Dark Side of a Paradise Island
The killing of an Irish teacher on her honeymoon shocked the world, but not those who know Mauritius well
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The image of Mauritius that tourist brochures like to portray usually features the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean lapping beaches of perfect white sand.
Palm trees
sway gently in the breeze, smiling waiters serve cold drinks. The sun always
shines.
A very different scene played out yesterday in Belfast, where a plane landed carrying the body of Michaela McAreavey. The young teacher had been strangled on her honeymoon at the luxury Legends hotel; her body had been found by her husband.
Three men have been charged in connection with her killing – she apparently disturbed thieves in her room – and the crime dented the island's idyllic image. But it was not an isolated incident, and as someone who lived and worked there for more than three years, I have to say that it was not a surprise. During my time on the island, I saw a steady increase of violent crime.
For an island usually described as paradise there is a lot wrong with Mauritius. Problems of alcohol, drugs and poverty have all contributed to the country's ills.
A very different scene played out yesterday in Belfast, where a plane landed carrying the body of Michaela McAreavey. The young teacher had been strangled on her honeymoon at the luxury Legends hotel; her body had been found by her husband.
Three men have been charged in connection with her killing – she apparently disturbed thieves in her room – and the crime dented the island's idyllic image. But it was not an isolated incident, and as someone who lived and worked there for more than three years, I have to say that it was not a surprise. During my time on the island, I saw a steady increase of violent crime.
For an island usually described as paradise there is a lot wrong with Mauritius. Problems of alcohol, drugs and poverty have all contributed to the country's ills.
Tourists visiting the island will mostly never see the real Mauritius.
Many will stay in one of the island's 40 or more luxury hotels and never leave
the hotel's grounds, preferring to just laze on the beach, swim in the ocean,
play golf, enjoy the numerous watersports on offer, or just relax in the spa.
Those staying at the island's cheaper hotels are also unlikely to stray far
from the beach and so will never see the intense poverty that afflicts most of Mauritius.
Tourism may have brought much-needed foreign currency, but it has contribution to development has been patchy. When I first visited the island in 1994 it took almost four hours to drive the 40 miles from the north of the island to the south because the roads were so bad. There was a solitary fast food restaurant on the island, a Pizza Hut in the capital Port Louis.
But my
girlfriend and I could walk through the unlit streets of Grand Baie, then the
main tourist town, at midnight without any fear of being attacked, except maybe
by one of the thousands of wild dogs that roamed the island. We could chat with
groups of teenagers out on the town without fear of being mugged or worse.
When I
returned in 2006, it was a radically different island. I could drive those 40
miles in less than two hours and any delays were likely to be caused by traffic
congestion rather than by poorly made roads (it seems every Mauritian now owns
at least one car). There were shopping malls, fast food restaurants and high
rise buildings everywhere (in 1994 Mauritius had a law preventing the
construction of any building above three storeys). And, within our first six
weeks, my girlfriend had been robbed and attacked on the way to her early
morning swim in the beautiful Indian Ocean at
Flic en Flac, another tourist hot spot.
Why had this
happened? Analysis is not easy – and getting crime statistics from the
Mauritian authorities was a near impossible task, particularly because they
might have a negative effect on tourism, one of the island's main sources of
income.
But in the first 62 days of 2010, seven people were murdered on the
island and one burglar was shot and killed in the act of breaking and entering.
There were 10 further incidences of violent crime, including one in which some
French tourists were robbed by three men armed with a revolver and machetes.
Most of the violence is by Mauritians against fellow Mauritians, but some of it is directed against tourists. Most of the violence is connected with petty crimes, but there was one rape last year.
And other
brutal crimes have been perpetrated. In September last year, seven-year-old Samuella Martin was found
burnt alive in the sugar cane fields, having been raped and set alight by her
uncle. The following month, a man was jailed for 26 years for his part in the
rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. And in November, Serino Calou murdered
a 17-year-old boy and raped his girlfriend on a public beach.
Much of this
violence can be attributed to the island's massive alcohol problem. Mauritius
also has a serious opiate abuse problem, ranking fifth in the world per head
for opiate use, according to the latest United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime report. Locally grown marijuana is smoked all over the island.
The United States has also highlighted Mauritius as a destination for child sex tourism: an estimated 2,600 children are trafficked internally to fuel the trade. Four thousand cases of child abuse were reported on the island in 2010.
The United States has also highlighted Mauritius as a destination for child sex tourism: an estimated 2,600 children are trafficked internally to fuel the trade. Four thousand cases of child abuse were reported on the island in 2010.
The prime
minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, has also admitted that suicide has become a
national problem among the islands' population of just 1.2 million.
In the 42 years since independence, the island has effectively been ruled by two family dynasties, the Ramgoolams and the Jugnauths. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, known as the "father of Mauritian independence", was the island's first prime minister, from 1968 to 1982, and his son Navin is in the second of his two terms as premier.
In the 42 years since independence, the island has effectively been ruled by two family dynasties, the Ramgoolams and the Jugnauths. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, known as the "father of Mauritian independence", was the island's first prime minister, from 1968 to 1982, and his son Navin is in the second of his two terms as premier.
I finally left Mauritius
last June, tired of the rising violence and daily corruption and the stress of
driving around the island: last year there were 20,000 road accidents, which
left 151 people dead. And with the murder of Michaela McAreavey, a little more
of the dark side of Mauritius
has been revealed.
Mauritius: fact file
Population: 1.3 million (according to UN figures for 2010)
Area: 2,040 sq km (788 sq miles)
Capital city: Port Louis
GNI per capita: US$7,240 (£4,560)
Life expectancy: 76 years for women, 68 years for men
Languages: English (official), Creole, French, Indian languages
Religions: Hinduism (52 per cent), Christianity (28 per cent), Islam (17 per cent)
Main industries: sugar, tourism, tea, textiles, banking and business outsourcing
VIVE LA "NATION" MAURICIENNE!
John McAreavey, the widower of Michaela McAreavey,
broke down in court as he described the moment he found his new bride
strangled in their hotel room in Mauritius on their honeymoon.
Honeymoon Murder: Fresh Probe Launched
Sky News – 5 hours ago
A judicial inquiry has been launched into the murder of Michaela McAreavey, who was killed while on honeymoon in Mauritius.
Mauritian prime minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has announced a new
team of detectives would look at the case in an attempt to unearth fresh
evidence in the case.
Mr Ramgoolam gave the assurances during a meeting with the Irish ambassador to Mauritius, Brendan McMahon, in Port Louis.
Meanwhile, Ireland's deputy Prime Minister, Eamon Gilmore, thanked the Mauritian authorities for their co-operation.
"I want to thank Prime Minister Ramgoolam for this response and for the
co-operation which we are receiving from the Mauritian authorities," he
said.
"The Irish Government will continue to meet its full consular
responsibilities to Michaela, her husband John and their families, as it
does to all Irish citizens."
Mrs McAreavey, 27, a former beauty queen and school teacher from County
Tyrone, was killed in her room at the Legends Hotel in January 2011.
She had left her new husband John at the hotel's restaurant to fetch some biscuits from her room.
Legends' hotel workers Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon were cleared of the murder by a jury at the Supreme Court in Port Louis last week.
Mr McMahon told the Mauritian foreign minister, Arvin Boolell, the
McAreavey family had been deeply distressed and hurt by the publication
of photographs of her body in a Mauritian newspaper.
Mr Gilmore added: "The Prime Minister advised the Ambassador that the
Government of Mauritius deeply regretted and condemned the leaking and
publication of the photographs which appeared in the Sunday Times of
Mauritius.
"He indicated that there would be a thorough police investigation into
the matter and that anyone found to be involved faced prosecution."
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Two hotel workers found NOT GUILTY of murdering a honeymoon bride in her hotel room in Mauritius
- Jurors took only two hours to reach the unanimous not guilty decisions on Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Moneea
- Members of the McAreavey family walked straight out of court when the verdicts were read out
- Both accused broke down in tears on hearing the result
- Michaela McAreavey had been found dead in bathtub of Mauritius hotel room
- Michaela and husband John had only married twelve days before her death in January 2011
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Phil Vinter and Rob Preece
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The grieving widower of murdered
honeymoon bride Michaela McAreavey was left reeling today after the men
he believed was responsible for her murder were sensationally acquitted.
John McAreavey and other members of the 27-year-old Irish newlywed's family stormed straight out of court when the foreman of the jury declared Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Moneea not guilty after just two hours of deliberations.
The men were hotel workers at the exclusive beachside complex on the paradise island of Mauritius where Mrs McAreavey, from Ballygawley, County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland, was found strangled in a bathtub.
Mr McAreavey had been married to his wife for just 12 days when she was
killed at the Legends hotel in January 2011.
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Devastated: John McAreavey, his sister Claire
and his father Brendan leave the courtroom after the hotel workers were
cleared by a jury
Victim: Mrs McAreavery was murdered on her honeymoon on Mauritius in January last year
The
verdict brought to an end a hideous ordeal for the widower, who had
been told immediately after the attack by police not to worry as he was
young enough to get another wife and then accused by the defence during
the trial of playing sex games with his new bride - theories described
as 'grotesque' by prosecutors.
The couple met in a Belfast pub five years before the tragedy, while they were both students.
Mr McAreavey was a talented Gaelic footballer and the woman who would become his wife for only 12 days was the daughter of Mickey Harte, a high-profile coach in the sport.
At the time Mr McAreavey was taking a course in Business Management at Queen's University and his future bride was studying teaching at St Mary's University College.
They were married at St Malachy's church outside Ballygawley on December 30, 2010.
Mrs McAreavey was buried in her wedding dress the following month, after a funeral service at the same church attended by the Irish president, Mary McAleese.
Mr McAreavey, a 28-year-old accountant, spoke of the couple's love for each other while giving evidence as a prosecution witness at the trial at the Supreme Court in the island’s capital, Port Louis.
He said his own life had effectively ended when his ‘wonderful, wonderful’ wife was killed.
The couple met in a Belfast pub five years before the tragedy, while they were both students.
Mr McAreavey was a talented Gaelic footballer and the woman who would become his wife for only 12 days was the daughter of Mickey Harte, a high-profile coach in the sport.
At the time Mr McAreavey was taking a course in Business Management at Queen's University and his future bride was studying teaching at St Mary's University College.
Acquitted: Sandip Moneea is hugged by his wife
Rekha (left) and Avinash Treebhoowoon shares a joke with his wife Reshma
after the unanimous verdict
Mrs McAreavey was buried in her wedding dress the following month, after a funeral service at the same church attended by the Irish president, Mary McAleese.
Mr McAreavey, a 28-year-old accountant, spoke of the couple's love for each other while giving evidence as a prosecution witness at the trial at the Supreme Court in the island’s capital, Port Louis.
He said his own life had effectively ended when his ‘wonderful, wonderful’ wife was killed.
Contrast: Avinash Treebhoowoon and his wife
Reshma celebrated after the verdict but John McAreavey and his sister
Claire looked distraught
Treebhoowoon's lawyer Sanjeev Teeluckdharry, was
held aloft by the hotel worker's supporters after the jury reached a
unanimous verdict
Overcome: Sandip Moneea was carried from the court to safety by two policemen after he collapsed when the verdict was read out
Mournful: John McAreavey was escorted by armed police as he left the court
And he brought photographs of Mrs McAreavey to show the jury as he described how he missed her.
'Michaela was a wonderful, wonderful person, a really special human,’ he said during his evidence.
‘She completed my whole life.
‘She was loved by her parents – she was their only daughter. She was cherished by her brothers – their only sister.
She had so many special qualities that it would be impossible for me to fully explain how a good a person she was.’
As the two acquitted men walked out of the court, throngs of people cheered 'justice, justice' in Creole as policemen hurried the men through the chaotic scenes. Moments later defence lawyers were carried aloft.
But
the scenes of joy were in stark contrast to the reaction of Mrs
McAreavey's family, who heard upsetting evidence about her final hours
as well as listening to her husband's moving account.
Chief prosecutor Mehdi Manrakhan told the jury that, on the morning of the killing, the couple were happy. Mr McAreavey went for a golf lesson while his wife went for a swim in the hotel pool.
'Michaela was a wonderful, wonderful person, a really special human,’ he said during his evidence.
‘She completed my whole life.
‘She was loved by her parents – she was their only daughter. She was cherished by her brothers – their only sister.
She had so many special qualities that it would be impossible for me to fully explain how a good a person she was.’
As the two acquitted men walked out of the court, throngs of people cheered 'justice, justice' in Creole as policemen hurried the men through the chaotic scenes. Moments later defence lawyers were carried aloft.
Mrs McAreavey, pictured on Irish television
programme The Late Late Show, was the daughter of Gaelic football
manager Mickey Harte
Chief prosecutor Mehdi Manrakhan told the jury that, on the morning of the killing, the couple were happy. Mr McAreavey went for a golf lesson while his wife went for a swim in the hotel pool.
They
later met at the pool for something to eat. Mrs McAreavey went to their
room to fetch some biscuits while her husband waited at the poolside.
She never returned.
She never returned.
Prosecutors alleged that she had caught the two hotel workers stealing, and they had then strangled her, but the jury rejected this theory.
The court even heard false allegations that the couple had been seen arguing shortly before the killing.
The jury was shown CCTV footage which the defence implied showed them having a row in the hotel reception.
Mrs McAreavey, pictured at the Rose of Tralee
festival in 2004 (left) and as a student (right), studied teaching at St
Mary's University College in Belfast
Mr McAreavey revealed in court that he had come under suspicion after the killing, at a time when he was struggling to come to terms with his wife's death.
He said police asked him why he was crying and told him he was young enough to find another wife.
Officers later put him in handcuffs, he added.
Mr McAreavey told the jury that he was taken to a derelict-looking building where he was put in a room and officers took off his shirt and examined him for marks.
‘I could see what was going through their minds,’ he said. ‘They put handcuffs on me and I was sat down on a bench.’ Mr McAreavey said he was then left alone.
‘It was for at least five hours, I’m sure, more – actually it was late into the night.’
He said he was eventually released after making a statement and returned to the hotel where a nurse cared for him through the night.
Happier times: Michaela and John with her father
Mickey Harte, left, Bishop John McAreavey and the groom's father
Brendan McAreavey at their wedding at St Malachy's
The guide was later found to be a free insert from a woman's magazine, and Mr Manrakhan told jurors that the defence had offered 'grotesque theories' about the couple's sex life.
In love: John McAreavey, pictured with Michaela on their wedding
day
‘I am duty-bound to speak about the manner in which fingers have been constantly pointed at John McAreavey in the most unbefitting manner.’
When the verdict was read out in court both the accused broke down in tears in the dock while relatives jumped to their feet cheering wildly.
Outside the courtroom, Treebhoowoon said he was overjoyed. He also expressed sympathy for the McAreaveys.
'I'm so sad about this lady,' he said. 'But I did not kill this lady.'
Moneea wept as he hugged his lawyer Rama Valayden.
'I am so happy to be back with my family,' he said. 'These past 18 months have been so hard.'
During the trial defence lawyers had said that Avinash Treebhoowoon was tortured into confessing to a murder he did not commit by a police force in a hurry to find someone to blame.
The jury's not guilty verdict showed they believed the room cleaner's insistence that a detailed admission statement produced three days after Michaela McAreavey's death, which bore his signature, was a mere fabrication.
Relief at being spared a potential 60-year jail term will be tempered with anger that he has been incarcerated for the last 18 months on what jurors evidently concluded was a tissue of lies invented by detectives.
The 32-year-old will now attempt to restart his life, still on medication for the recurring nightmares he claims he has about the officers who beat him into signing.
Happy together: The tragic couple, pictured at
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (left) and the Giant's Causeway in North
Antrim (right), met in a Belfast pub five years before the killing
It was during that time he met his wife Reshma, who used to be a sales assistant.
The couple married in 2009. She soon became pregnant but would lose the child.
She was present at court throughout the trial, the orange streak through her hair a symbol of love for her husband.
A potential defence witness, for six weeks she maintained a quiet vigil on a bench outside court room five, unable to attend proceedings.
But each morning she would scurry over to the dock to spend a few moments with him before court began.
When her husband's lawyers decided
not to call her to give evidence, she was finally able to sit and listen
to the trial's concluding phases.
John McAreavey arrives at court, escorted by four plain clothes policemen. He gave evidence during the trial
Treebhoowoon grew up in a small village in the north of the island and left school early and without qualifications.
Prior to Legends he worked in another
hotel - the Meridien - and also had spells of employment as a lorry
driver and in one of the country's many textile factories.
During his time in the Meridien he
was suspended for two weeks after an Italian couple claimed 500 euro was
stolen from their room.
Treebhoowoon insisted he was cleared
by a disciplinary committee, which blamed one of his co-workers, and he
went on to work at the hotel for another two years.
Mr McAreavey kissed the coffin of his late wife
as she was laid to rest. The funeral service was held at the church
where the couple had married less than a month earlier
Grief: Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte
(centre), with his wife Marion (second from right) and son-in-law John
(far right), followed his daughter's coffin at the funeral
In that period he says he was offered but turned down a promotion opportunity.
'I was not yet ready for the responsibility,' he told the trial.
At the time of the murder he was one of five room attendants working under the supervision of his co-accused Sandip Moneea.
His day began at 7.15am and he would work to 4pm, cleaning nine or 10 rooms in that period.
One of those he worked with was Raj Theekoy, a man he considered a
friend but one who would go on to implicate him in the murder as the
prosecution's star witness.
Fellow attendant Govinden Samynaden said the two were always laughing together.
'Avinash and Raj were always joking,' he said.
Cleared: Flanked by police officers, Avinash Treebhoowon, 30, (right)
and Sandip Mooneea, 42, arrive at court
Having left school early, Treebhoowoon claims he does not have great command of the English language.
An interpreter had to explain proceedings throughout the trial.
Up until two weeks before the murder,
he and his wife had lived at his parents' house in Amaury, a rural
village in the centre north of the island close to Riviere du Rempart.
There he spoke a language of Indian origin, Bhojpuri.
His father Sooriedeo is a 52-year-old labourer who cannot read or write.
Treebhoowoon claimed he had a fight with him on December 22, 2010 over
his failure to buy gas for the house. The row prompted him to leave.
He stayed for a short period with his wife's mother but then moved into rented accommodation in Plaine de Roches.
It was an episode that prosecutor
Mehdi Manrakhan found hard to explain, asking where Treebhoowoon got the
money to pay for the new pad.
Nightmare in paradise: The couple's room at Legends Hotel in Grand Gaube, Mauritius
Luxury holiday: A view of the swimming pool at the five-star Legends Hotel in Mauritius, where the newlywed couple were staying
'Let us not forget that this is a man
who would fight with his father over buying a gas cylinder and yet find
the money to go rent a house for him and his wife to live in?' he said.
The incident that saw him move out of
the family home assumed great significance in the trial. After he
signed the confession statement, Treebhoowoon met briefly with his
father in a police station.
An officer who witnessed the incident claimed the suspect said: 'Forget about your son now, I have made a mistake.'
But in the witness box both
Treebhoowoon and his father insisted he was talking about the family
fall out and not the murder, instead saying: 'Don't forget about your
son,' before he asked to move home.
In the event he could neither go to Amaury nor settle into his rented apartment.
From the day after the murder his new home was to be the four walls of a prison cell.
Judge Justice Prithviraj Fecknah had told jurors to ignore any ramifications their verdicts may have on the reputation of Mauritius.
Prosecutor Mehdi Manrakhan (left), pictured with
Director of Public Prosecutions Satyajit Boolel said defence lawyers
had offered 'grotesque theories' about the McAreaveys' sex life
John McAreavey leaves the mortuary after
visiting his late wife for the last time in the Princess Margret
Hospital, Port Louis, in January 2011
His
direction followed remarks by lawyers for the defendants claiming the
verdicts would send a signal out to the world about Mauritius.
He
had said to the jury: 'I have to remind you this is not your role and you are not
to allow yourselves to be influenced by such considerations.
'You are not politicians and you cannot allow yourselves to be swayed by political considerations.'
IRISH PRIEST FEARS MURDER WILL TARNISH ISLAND'S REPUTATION
A
95-year-old Irish priest who has lived most of his life in Mauritius
said he fears the murder of Michaela McAreavey will tarnish the holiday
island's hospitable reputation.
The concerns of Father Bernard Farrelly appear to be borne out in part by the latest visitor figures on arrivals from Ireland.
But while 22 per cent fewer Irish are now travelling to the Indian Ocean island in the wake of the crime, overall tourism rates continue to go in the other direction.
For the first time Mauritius is forecast to attract more than one million visitors this year - up 3.1% on 2011.
Fr Farrelly, who retired from active ministry only three years ago, insisted the crime does not reflect the true nature of the country and its people.
'It was a terrible tragedy,' said the cleric, speaking from his little bungalow beside the white stone Catholic church in Sainte Croix near the capital Port Louis.
'They were young, his wife was a little older than him - she was 27 and he was 26 I think.
'Her father (Mickey Harte) was the trainer of the Tyrone team and he was a public figure and very well known, there was great link between her and her father.'
The cleric said locals have prayed for the tragic honeymooner and her widower John since her death at the Legends Hotel.
In 2010, the year before Mrs McAreavey's death, a total of 3,460 Irish citizens visited the island.
The following year the number dipped significantly to 2,717.
There was also sizeable fall off in the number of British passport holders arriving on the island last year compared to the previous. In 2010 around 97,500 visited, while only 88,200 went to Mauritius in 2011.
Wider trends must be factored in, particularly the economic downturn, but in a year that saw overall visitor numbers rise, something was certainly putting the Irish and British off.
The concerns of Father Bernard Farrelly appear to be borne out in part by the latest visitor figures on arrivals from Ireland.
But while 22 per cent fewer Irish are now travelling to the Indian Ocean island in the wake of the crime, overall tourism rates continue to go in the other direction.
For the first time Mauritius is forecast to attract more than one million visitors this year - up 3.1% on 2011.
Fr Farrelly, who retired from active ministry only three years ago, insisted the crime does not reflect the true nature of the country and its people.
'It was a terrible tragedy,' said the cleric, speaking from his little bungalow beside the white stone Catholic church in Sainte Croix near the capital Port Louis.
'They were young, his wife was a little older than him - she was 27 and he was 26 I think.
'Her father (Mickey Harte) was the trainer of the Tyrone team and he was a public figure and very well known, there was great link between her and her father.'
The cleric said locals have prayed for the tragic honeymooner and her widower John since her death at the Legends Hotel.
In 2010, the year before Mrs McAreavey's death, a total of 3,460 Irish citizens visited the island.
The following year the number dipped significantly to 2,717.
There was also sizeable fall off in the number of British passport holders arriving on the island last year compared to the previous. In 2010 around 97,500 visited, while only 88,200 went to Mauritius in 2011.
Wider trends must be factored in, particularly the economic downturn, but in a year that saw overall visitor numbers rise, something was certainly putting the Irish and British off.
The verdict will inevitably prompt serious questions for Mauritian police over their handling of the murder investigation.
While
allegations of police brutality against one of the accused were a
consistent theme through the eight weeks of the trial, many other
aspects of officers' conduct were also put under the spotlight.
None more than the treatment of John
McAreavey in the hours after the crime. The bereaved husband was
arrested, handcuffed and left alone in a police station for five hours.
Defendant
Avinash Treebhoowoon made his first official complaint of ill-treatment
at a court appearance two days after the murder.
He would later allege that a confession statement signed by him the following day was extracted by violent means.
Accusations: Defendant Avinash Treebhoowoon made
his first official complaint of ill-treatment at a court appearance two
days after the murder
His
claims against individual officers were repeated again and again
throughout the case by his lawyer Sanjeev Teeluckdharry and then by the
defendant himself when he went into the witness box.
In
summary he alleged he was subject to numerous beatings, grabbed in the
groin, whipped on the soles of his feet with a pipe, hit on the head
with a plastic bottle and stripped naked and held down on a table while
his head was plunged into a bucket of water.
At one stage he vomited blood, he claimed.
The
torture was not just physical, according to the accused. Detectives
also allegedly threatened to lock up and beat his parents and,
bizarrely, apparently told him they were going to send his wife to
Ireland to live with Mrs McAreavey's widower.
His chief tormentors, the accused claimed, were the officers of the police's major crime investigation team (MCIT).
Defence lawyer Rama Valayden memorably claimed MCIT stood for 'My confession is true'.
Treebhoowoon said much of the alleged violence was meted out in the team's headquarters in Port Louis.
Treebhoowoon said much of the alleged violence was meted out in the team's headquarters in Port Louis.
Each claim was rejected by the MCIT personnel when they gave evidence.
The
head of the MCIT, assistant chief commissioner Yoosoof Soopun, was also
forced to deny claims he threatened to kill the suspect with a revolver
he kept concealed in his sock
Chief
prosecutor Manrakhan challenged Treebhoowoon to explain why doctors who
examined him during this period did not find any external signs of
injury.
Mr Manrakhan put it to the defendant: 'I tell you, you never got beaten, you lied.'
'No, I got beaten,' he replied firmly.
Mr
Teeluckdharry said it would be naive to think police would not know of
torture techniques that would leave no marks or traces.
Claims: Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon
are escorted by police to Court Five during the trial. The pair say
officers beat confessions out of them
Mr Valayden, who represented
Moneea, shocked the jury as he attempted to demonstrate how hard it was
to leave a lasting mark with a slap by striking himself hard on both
cheeks.
The nine jurors looked taken aback, especially when the lawyer urged them to do the same.
In
a startling revelation during his opening address, Mr Valayden then
claimed he had got one of his legal team to subject him to another form
of brutality alleged by Treebhoowoon - whipping on the feet with a
plastic pipe.
'I asked
the big guy to do it on me,' he said pointing at a rather well-set
junior counsel sitting behind him. 'But you can try it too.'
Mr Soopun also had to explain the conduct of officers when Mr McAreavey outlined how he was apparently treated by police.
He
said the decision to detain the widower was a wrong one, but he blamed
the Legends hotel, insisting that staff withheld room entry records that
would have immediately eliminated him from inquiries.
WHY WAS DEFENCE LAWYER WHO QUIT THE CASE NOT CALLED AS WITNESS?
Defence barrister Ravi Rutnah drew inspiration from Hollywood when he dramatically quit the trial in its second week.
'I'll be back,' the colourful lawyer declared. 'In Arnold Schwarzenegger style.'
The London-based counsel was referring to his intention to appear as a witness for the defence.
The defence's decision not to call him to the stand left one of the case's most unusual lingering questions unanswered.
Did he or did he not eat the fried rice?
But unlike Schwarzenegger's Terminator, Mr Rutnah was not to return for another scene.
A police witness's claim that the lawyer asked to share his portion of takeaway food the evening his client - Avinash Treebhoowoon - allegedly admitted Michaela McAreavey's murder prompted his withdrawal from the case.
'It was a cordial, friendly atmosphere because we even shared our food with Mr Rutnah,' Inspector Luciano Gerard told court.
'I still remember there was fried rice and I'm not fond of fried rice and I gave him my portion - it was takeaway.'
An incensed Mr Rutnah said the accusation, along with claims he turned up to the meeting at the offices of the police's major crime investigation team (MCIT) more than an hour late, amounted to an attack on his professional integrity.
'As a direct consequence of that, I have decided to withdraw representing accused number one, Avinash Treebhoowoon,' he said.
At that he grabbed three legal textbooks between his hands, tapped them loudly on the bench, turned on his heels and strode out of a shocked court room.
If some observers found the theatrical exit hard to digest, the fried rice simply refused to leave the menu.
Time and again lawyers returned to the topic.
But they were not indulging in frivolity, for the fast food portion became a touchstone for the competing claims of the defence and prosecution.
If Mr Rutnah had shared rice with police officers in a convivial atmosphere it would have undermined his claim that both he and his client were threatened before Treebhoowoon was forced to sign a fabricated confession statement.
If the episode was a figment of the police's imagination it was further proof, defence counsel maintained, that they were prepared to stop at nothing to cover up the fact that they had used violence to compel the suspect to make an admission.
With Mr Rutnah departed stage left, Treebhoowoon's senior counsel Sanjeev Teeluckdharry set about getting to the bottom of the affair.
'You gave your fried rice to Mr Rutnah?' he challenged Mr Gerard under cross-examination.
The policeman replied: 'Yes, I am adamant about that.'
The tenacious lawyer then produced a statement from Mr Gerard's superior, Assistant Police Commissioner Yoosoof Soopun, in which he claimed it was actually him who donated rice to a hungry Mr Rutnah.
'Mr Soopun said he gave fried rice to Mr Ravi Rutnah, and not on the 12th but on 13th January.'
Mr Gerard did not think twice before contradicting his boss.
'If Mr Soopun had given a statement that it was on the 13th I will say that Mr Soopun has made an error. I am totally sure about that.'
The lawyer hit back: 'My instructions are, neither your version or the version of Mr Soopun are correct.'
Mr Gerard stood by his story: 'I would say my version was correct because it was my takeaway. And I gave it to Mr Rutnah.'
Mr Teeluckdharry insisted the whole thing had been made up in an attempt to force his colleague to step aside.
'These are allegations and a below-the-belt attack on a legal representative,' he said
Chief prosecution Mehdi Manrakhan reacted with incredulity to this assertion.
'What allegations?' he asked.
'Giving someone your fried rice is not an allegation? Below the belt?'
Days later a key prosecution witness unwittingly got embroiled in the matter.
Raj Theekoy, who was originally arrested in the wake of the honeymooner's murder, was asked by Mr Teeluckdharry if he had been served food when in custody.
'Yes, fried rice,' the hotel cleaner replied, wondering why his answer had been met with stifled giggles in the public gallery.
Soon it was the turn of Mr Soopun to give his version of the by then infamous meal in the MCIT building in Port Louis two days after Mrs McAreavey's murder.
'We normally had a special dinner when we worked late and we worked until late on the 12th (January 2011),' he explained to Mr Manrakhan.
Mr Soopun, the head of the MCIT, claimed that after a five-minute meeting with his client about his intention to make a full confession statement the next day Mr Rutnah and Treebhoowoon emerged.
'Then we invited them to share our meal,' he said. 'They said they would be delighted and accepted our invitation.
'Our meal was fried rice, my Lord. Mr Gerard doesn't like to eat fried rice. Mr Rutnah made a request if he can be given the share of Mr Gerard's fried rice and he was happy with it.'
It was an account Mr Rutnah never got the opportunity to challenge in court.
He did not come back as promised in his movie-style farewell.
But if he failed to follow the lead of Schwarzenegger's most famous film character, he still fully intends to replicate the Austrian-born actor's real-life career change.
The lawyer has made no secret of his desire to get into politics and one day become the prime minister of Mauritius.
The bricks and mortar of the four walls still stand, but the number has changed.
The bath where Michaela McAreavey was found dead is no longer inside; the bed she shared with her husband John for two nights has also been replaced.
But memories of the day the Co Tyrone honeymooner was murdered inside the luxury gated resort are harder to erase.
The complex is located in the far north of Mauritius, more than an hour and a half's drive from the international airport in the south-west corner.
The route cuts through large swathes of sugar cane plantations, the tall crops moving in unison in the wind like rolling oceans.
On the verges, fruit sellers sit by abundantly stocked stalls, while vendors with more permanent businesses stand outside their shop fronts - each more colourfully painted than the last.
Sparsely grassed football pitches are a common sight. Competing teams are overloaded with eager young Mauritians, most sporting the familiar strips of English Premier League sides.
John and Michaela McAreavey made the trip on Saturday January 8 2011 - two days before the murder.
The security guard on duty at the imposing wooden front gate would have waved them on through to the arrow-straight, palm tree-lined driveway that leads to the main car park.
On the left side is a small golf course - where Mr McAreavey took a lesson on the morning of the fateful day.
Koi carp swim around an ornamental pond at the front entrance. Close by, fresh flowers float in huge terracotta pots full of water.
The distant thwack of racquet and ball can just be made out over the flowing water features as holidaying couples take in a bit of exercise on the tennis courts.
The ancient feng shui theory of creating positive energy in design features is clearly an influence.
Yin and yang symbols are engraved on glass doors and windows throughout the complex.
The reception area is still monitored by the security camera that became such a key issue during the trial.
On the Sunday of their stay, the McAreaveys attended a briefing on what activities they could indulge in on their planned seven-day stay.
The white sand beach that greets visitors emerging from the wooden-beamed high ceilings of the reception is the base for many of them.
A high-powered speed boat bobs in the shallow turquoise waters of the circular inlet, while the occasional gust catches the sails of the catamarans pulled up on shore ready for use.
Among them is a microlight sea plane that would not look out of place in an old James Bond movie.
Guests in the sheltered bay laugh and joke as they narrowly avoid colliding with each other in cycle pedalos.
Those wanting to take things a bit easier lie on sun loungers beneath the shade of thatched grass parasols or in the large hammocks designed for two.
Looking down on the waterfront is an open-air half-moon-shaped restaurant, its tiled wall and table mosaics depict fish, hinting at the local specialities on offer.
This is not where the McAreaveys enjoyed lunch together shortly before she died.
The Banyon restaurant is at the other end of the complex, almost in a mini resort of its own.
The walk between the two weaves through numerous two-storey accommodation blocks.
The last one before the Banyon is a deluxe building - where the room once numbered 1025 is housed.
It is about 100 to 150 metres from the poolside cafe where John and Michaela lunched on chicken curry - a one to two-minute walk at most.
Jurors retraced that journey when they spent a morning at the hotel during the trial to gain a sense of the locations discussed in court.
Mauritius is a volcanic island and the stack of huge black boulders blocking the eyeline from the rooms to the pool look like they have come straight from the centre of the Earth.
The Banyon is more like a picnic area than a restaurant.
It is tucked away among twisted tree trunks, whose hanging branches and vines provide cover from the sun.
The rustic wooden tables and stools sit in a bed of fine gravel only yards from the figure-eight pool where the honeymooners swam for an hour before a waiter brought them menus.
Beyond the pool the ground falls away to another beach, smaller and noticeably quieter than the main waterfront.
The sliding double doors of Room 1025 were a stone's throw from the water's edge.
A long way out to sea a constant wave breaks over a reef. Further on still an odd-shaped rock rises out of the water like a huge whale taking in air.
The view is idyllic and it was one of the last the McAreaveys shared together before Michaela left to walk back to Room 1025 to get a dark chocolate Kit Kat to enjoy with her tea.
She would never return.
Legends may have been re-christened but one name in this area of Mauritius has endured for much longer.
It is attached to the seafarers' landmark just round the coast from the complex.
No return: Defence lawyer Ravi Rutnah
dramatically quit the trial in the second week, but despite saying he
would take the witness stand he never gave evidence (???????)
The London-based counsel was referring to his intention to appear as a witness for the defence.
The defence's decision not to call him to the stand left one of the case's most unusual lingering questions unanswered.
Did he or did he not eat the fried rice?
But unlike Schwarzenegger's Terminator, Mr Rutnah was not to return for another scene.
A police witness's claim that the lawyer asked to share his portion of takeaway food the evening his client - Avinash Treebhoowoon - allegedly admitted Michaela McAreavey's murder prompted his withdrawal from the case.
'It was a cordial, friendly atmosphere because we even shared our food with Mr Rutnah,' Inspector Luciano Gerard told court.
'I still remember there was fried rice and I'm not fond of fried rice and I gave him my portion - it was takeaway.'
An incensed Mr Rutnah said the accusation, along with claims he turned up to the meeting at the offices of the police's major crime investigation team (MCIT) more than an hour late, amounted to an attack on his professional integrity.
'As a direct consequence of that, I have decided to withdraw representing accused number one, Avinash Treebhoowoon,' he said.
At that he grabbed three legal textbooks between his hands, tapped them loudly on the bench, turned on his heels and strode out of a shocked court room.
If some observers found the theatrical exit hard to digest, the fried rice simply refused to leave the menu.
Time and again lawyers returned to the topic.
But they were not indulging in frivolity, for the fast food portion became a touchstone for the competing claims of the defence and prosecution.
If Mr Rutnah had shared rice with police officers in a convivial atmosphere it would have undermined his claim that both he and his client were threatened before Treebhoowoon was forced to sign a fabricated confession statement.
If the episode was a figment of the police's imagination it was further proof, defence counsel maintained, that they were prepared to stop at nothing to cover up the fact that they had used violence to compel the suspect to make an admission.
With Mr Rutnah departed stage left, Treebhoowoon's senior counsel Sanjeev Teeluckdharry set about getting to the bottom of the affair.
'You gave your fried rice to Mr Rutnah?' he challenged Mr Gerard under cross-examination.
The policeman replied: 'Yes, I am adamant about that.'
The tenacious lawyer then produced a statement from Mr Gerard's superior, Assistant Police Commissioner Yoosoof Soopun, in which he claimed it was actually him who donated rice to a hungry Mr Rutnah.
'Mr Soopun said he gave fried rice to Mr Ravi Rutnah, and not on the 12th but on 13th January.'
Mr Gerard did not think twice before contradicting his boss.
'If Mr Soopun had given a statement that it was on the 13th I will say that Mr Soopun has made an error. I am totally sure about that.'
The lawyer hit back: 'My instructions are, neither your version or the version of Mr Soopun are correct.'
Mr Gerard stood by his story: 'I would say my version was correct because it was my takeaway. And I gave it to Mr Rutnah.'
On trial: A sobbing Treebhoowoon pictured arriving at court earlier in the trial
Mr Teeluckdharry insisted the whole thing had been made up in an attempt to force his colleague to step aside.
'These are allegations and a below-the-belt attack on a legal representative,' he said
Chief prosecution Mehdi Manrakhan reacted with incredulity to this assertion.
'What allegations?' he asked.
'Giving someone your fried rice is not an allegation? Below the belt?'
Days later a key prosecution witness unwittingly got embroiled in the matter.
Raj Theekoy, who was originally arrested in the wake of the honeymooner's murder, was asked by Mr Teeluckdharry if he had been served food when in custody.
'Yes, fried rice,' the hotel cleaner replied, wondering why his answer had been met with stifled giggles in the public gallery.
Soon it was the turn of Mr Soopun to give his version of the by then infamous meal in the MCIT building in Port Louis two days after Mrs McAreavey's murder.
'We normally had a special dinner when we worked late and we worked until late on the 12th (January 2011),' he explained to Mr Manrakhan.
Mr Soopun, the head of the MCIT, claimed that after a five-minute meeting with his client about his intention to make a full confession statement the next day Mr Rutnah and Treebhoowoon emerged.
'Then we invited them to share our meal,' he said. 'They said they would be delighted and accepted our invitation.
'Our meal was fried rice, my Lord. Mr Gerard doesn't like to eat fried rice. Mr Rutnah made a request if he can be given the share of Mr Gerard's fried rice and he was happy with it.'
It was an account Mr Rutnah never got the opportunity to challenge in court.
He did not come back as promised in his movie-style farewell.
But if he failed to follow the lead of Schwarzenegger's most famous film character, he still fully intends to replicate the Austrian-born actor's real-life career change.
The lawyer has made no secret of his desire to get into politics and one day become the prime minister of Mauritius.
THE IDYLLIC HONEYMOON IN PARADISE THAT BECAME A NIGHTMARE
There is no Room 1025 at the Legends Hotel any more.The bricks and mortar of the four walls still stand, but the number has changed.
The bath where Michaela McAreavey was found dead is no longer inside; the bed she shared with her husband John for two nights has also been replaced.
Even the hotel has a new name - Lux.
Impact: The Legends Hotel, pictured, in
Mauritius may have changed its name, but the repercussions from the
murder of Michaela Harte have been significant
But memories of the day the Co Tyrone honeymooner was murdered inside the luxury gated resort are harder to erase.
The complex is located in the far north of Mauritius, more than an hour and a half's drive from the international airport in the south-west corner.
The route cuts through large swathes of sugar cane plantations, the tall crops moving in unison in the wind like rolling oceans.
On the verges, fruit sellers sit by abundantly stocked stalls, while vendors with more permanent businesses stand outside their shop fronts - each more colourfully painted than the last.
Sparsely grassed football pitches are a common sight. Competing teams are overloaded with eager young Mauritians, most sporting the familiar strips of English Premier League sides.
John and Michaela McAreavey made the trip on Saturday January 8 2011 - two days before the murder.
The security guard on duty at the imposing wooden front gate would have waved them on through to the arrow-straight, palm tree-lined driveway that leads to the main car park.
On the left side is a small golf course - where Mr McAreavey took a lesson on the morning of the fateful day.
Trouble in paradise: Police stand guard during a
re-construction of the murder scene at the Legends Hotel, in Grande
Gaube, Mauritius
Koi carp swim around an ornamental pond at the front entrance. Close by, fresh flowers float in huge terracotta pots full of water.
The distant thwack of racquet and ball can just be made out over the flowing water features as holidaying couples take in a bit of exercise on the tennis courts.
The ancient feng shui theory of creating positive energy in design features is clearly an influence.
Yin and yang symbols are engraved on glass doors and windows throughout the complex.
The reception area is still monitored by the security camera that became such a key issue during the trial.
On the Sunday of their stay, the McAreaveys attended a briefing on what activities they could indulge in on their planned seven-day stay.
The white sand beach that greets visitors emerging from the wooden-beamed high ceilings of the reception is the base for many of them.
A high-powered speed boat bobs in the shallow turquoise waters of the circular inlet, while the occasional gust catches the sails of the catamarans pulled up on shore ready for use.
Among them is a microlight sea plane that would not look out of place in an old James Bond movie.
Guests in the sheltered bay laugh and joke as they narrowly avoid colliding with each other in cycle pedalos.
Sealed off: The front entrance to the room where
Michaela and John stayed on their honeymoon at the Legends hotel was
sealed off by police following Michaela's death
Those wanting to take things a bit easier lie on sun loungers beneath the shade of thatched grass parasols or in the large hammocks designed for two.
Looking down on the waterfront is an open-air half-moon-shaped restaurant, its tiled wall and table mosaics depict fish, hinting at the local specialities on offer.
This is not where the McAreaveys enjoyed lunch together shortly before she died.
The Banyon restaurant is at the other end of the complex, almost in a mini resort of its own.
The walk between the two weaves through numerous two-storey accommodation blocks.
The last one before the Banyon is a deluxe building - where the room once numbered 1025 is housed.
It is about 100 to 150 metres from the poolside cafe where John and Michaela lunched on chicken curry - a one to two-minute walk at most.
Jurors retraced that journey when they spent a morning at the hotel during the trial to gain a sense of the locations discussed in court.
Mauritius is a volcanic island and the stack of huge black boulders blocking the eyeline from the rooms to the pool look like they have come straight from the centre of the Earth.
The Banyon is more like a picnic area than a restaurant.
It is tucked away among twisted tree trunks, whose hanging branches and vines provide cover from the sun.
The rustic wooden tables and stools sit in a bed of fine gravel only yards from the figure-eight pool where the honeymooners swam for an hour before a waiter brought them menus.
Beyond the pool the ground falls away to another beach, smaller and noticeably quieter than the main waterfront.
The sliding double doors of Room 1025 were a stone's throw from the water's edge.
A long way out to sea a constant wave breaks over a reef. Further on still an odd-shaped rock rises out of the water like a huge whale taking in air.
The view is idyllic and it was one of the last the McAreaveys shared together before Michaela left to walk back to Room 1025 to get a dark chocolate Kit Kat to enjoy with her tea.
She would never return.
Legends may have been re-christened but one name in this area of Mauritius has endured for much longer.
It is attached to the seafarers' landmark just round the coast from the complex.
VIDEO: See Treebhoowoon & Moneea enter and leave court on the idyllic island...
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Michaela trial: Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Mooneea found NOT GUILTY
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Two hotel workers have been cleared of murdering
honeymoon bride Michaela McAreavey in her luxury hotel suite on the
paradise island of Mauritius.
• Jurors took only two hours to reach the unanimous not guilty decisions on Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Mooneea
• Members of the McAreavey family walked straight out of court when the verdicts were read out
• Both accused broke down in tears on hearing the result
• Irish priest fears murder will tarnish island's reputation
Jurors took just two hours to reach the unanimous not guilty decisions for Avinash Treebhoowoon and Sandip Mooneea who had both been charged with the murder of 27-year-old Michaela after she returned to the couple’s room at the exclusive beachside complex and caught them stealing.
As the two acquitted men walked out of the Supreme Court in Port Louis throngs of people cheered 'justice, justice' in Creole (in Mauritian, you, idiot! BAFS) as policemen hurried the men through the chaotic scenes. Moments later defence lawyers were carried aloft.
Members of the McAreavey family walked straight out of court when the foreman of the jury made the verdicts known.
Outside the courthouse Treebhoowoon said he was overjoyed. He also expressed sympathy for the McAreaveys.
'I'm so sad about this lady,' he said. 'But I did not kill this lady.'
Mooneea wept as he hugged his lawyer Rama Valayden.
'I am so happy to be back with my family,' he said. 'These past 18 months have been so hard.'
John McAreavey had been married to Michaela for just 12 days when she was found strangled in the bathtub of the Legends hotel on the island.
When the verdict was read out in court both the accused broke down in tears in the dock while relatives jumped to their feet cheering wildly.
During the trial defence lawyers had said that Avinash Treebhoowoon was tortured into confessing to a murder he did not commit by a police force in a hurry to find someone to blame.
The jury's not guilty verdict showed they believed the room cleaner's insistence that a detailed admission statement produced three days after Michaela McAreavey's death, which bore his signature, was a mere fabrication.
Relief at being spared a potential 60-year jail term will be tempered with anger that he has been incarcerated for the last 18 months on what jurors evidently concluded was a tissue of lies invented by detectives.
The 32-year-old will now attempt to restart his life, still on medication for the recurring nightmares he claims he has about the officers who beat him into signing.
Treebhoowoon had been working at Legends hotel for almost five years when Mrs McAreavey was murdered last January.
As a room attendant he was paid 7800 Mauritian rupees a month - about 200 euros.
It was during that time he met his wife Reshma, who used to be a sales assistant.
The couple married in 2009. She soon became pregnant but would lose the child.
She was present at court throughout the trial, the orange streak through her hair a symbol of love for her husband.
A potential defence witness, for six weeks she maintained a quiet vigil on a bench outside court room five, unable to attend proceedings.
But each morning she would scurry over to the dock to spend a few moments with him before court began.
When her husband's lawyers decided not to call her to give evidence, she was finally able to sit and listen to the trial's concluding phases.
Treebhoowoon grew up in a small village in the north of the island and left school early and without qualifications.
Prior to Legends he worked in another hotel - the Meridien - and also had spells of employment as a lorry driver and in one of the country's many textile factories.
During his time in the Meridien he was suspended for two weeks after an Italian couple claimed 500 euros was stolen from their room.
Treebhoowoon insisted he was cleared by a disciplinary committee, which blamed one of his co-workers, and he went on to work at the hotel for another two years.
In that period he says he was offered but turned down a promotion opportunity.
'I was not yet ready for the responsibility,' he told the trial.
At the time of the murder he was one of five room attendants working under the supervision of his co-accused Sandip Mooneea.
His day began at 7.15am and he would work to 4pm, cleaning nine or 10 rooms in that period.
One of those he worked with was Raj Theekoy, a man he considered a friend but one who would go on to implicate him in the murder as the prosecution's star witness.
Fellow attendant Govinden Samynaden said the two were always laughing together.
'Avinash and Raj were always joking,' he said.
Having left school early, Treebhoowoon claims he does not have great command of the English language.
An interpreter had to explain proceedings throughout the trial.
Up until two weeks before the murder, he and his wife had lived at his parents' house in Amaury, a rural village in the centre north of the island close to Riviere du Rempart.
There he spoke a language of Indian origin, Bhojpuri.
His father Sooriedeo is a 52-year-old labourer who cannot read or write.
Treebhoowoon claimed he had a fight with him on December 22, 2010 over his failure to buy gas for the house. The row prompted him to leave.
He stayed for a short period with his wife's mother but then moved into rented accommodation in Plaine de Roches.
It was an episode that prosecutor Mehdi Manrakhan found hard to explain, asking where Treebhoowoon got the money to pay for the new pad.
'Let us not forget that this is a man who would fight with his father over buying a gas cylinder and yet find the money to go rent a house for him and his wife to live in?' he said.
The incident that saw him move out of the family home assumed great significance in the trial. After he signed the confession statement, Treebhoowoon met briefly with his father in a police station.
An officer who witnessed the incident claimed the suspect said: 'Forget about your son now, I have made a mistake.'
But in the witness box both Treebhoowoon and his father insisted he was talking about the family fall out and not the murder, instead saying: 'Don't forget about your son,' before he asked to move home.
In the event he could neither go to Amaury nor settle into his rented apartment.
From the day after the murder his new home was to be the four walls of a prison cell.
It was a traumatic trial for Michaela's widower John McAreavey who at one point during the prosecution’s 90-minute closing speech appeared to discreetly wipe away tears.
During the trial prosecutor Mr Manrakhan had told the court: ‘The person who has suffered the most in all of this, as if he hasn’t suffered enough after the death of the love of his life, Michaela, is John McAreavey.'
‘I am duty-bound to speak about the manner in which fingers have been constantly pointed at John McAreavey in the most unbefitting manner.’
Judge Justice Prithviraj Fecknah had told jurors to ignore any ramifications their verdicts may have on the reputation of Mauritius.
His direction followed remarks by lawyers for the defendants claiming the verdicts would send a signal out to the world about Mauritius.
He had said to the jury: 'I have to remind you this is not your role and you are not to allow yourselves to be influenced by such considerations.
'You are not politicians and you cannot allow yourselves to be swayed by political considerations.'
The prosecution had said the defendants attacked the 27-year-old teacher when she interrupted them stealing in the room, having momentarily left her husband John at a poolside restaurant to fetch biscuits.
During the trial the jury had been shown CCTV footage which the defence implied showed John and Michaela arguing at the hotel reception shortly before the killing.
However, police later came to court with proof the couple in the video were German holidaymakers.
In his closing speech Mr Manrakhan had said all the defence theories were ‘short-lived’ and had been abandoned ‘one after the other’ when it became clear they were unfounded.
The verdict in the Michaela McAreavey case will inevitably prompt serious questions for Mauritian police over their handling of the murder investigation.
While allegations of police brutality against one of the accused were a consistent theme through the eight weeks of the trial, many other aspects of officers' conduct were also put under the spotlight.
None more than the treatment of John McAreavey in the hours after the crime. The bereaved husband was arrested, handcuffed and left alone in a police station for five hours.
Defendant Avinash Treebhoowoon made his first official complaint of ill-treatment at a court appearance two days after the murder.
He would later allege that a confession statement signed by him the following day was extracted by violent means.
His claims against individual officers were repeated again and again throughout the case by his lawyer Sanjeev Teeluckdharry and then by the defendant himself when he went into the witness box.
In summary he alleged he was subject to numerous beatings, grabbed in the groin, whipped on the soles of his feet with a pipe, hit on the head with a plastic bottle and stripped naked and held down on a table while his head was plunged into a bucket of water.
At one stage he vomited blood, he claimed.
The torture was not just physical, according to the accused. Detectives also allegedly threatened to lock up and beat his parents and, bizarrely, apparently told him they were going to send his wife to Ireland to live with Mrs McAreavey's widower.
His chief tormentors, the accused claimed, were the officers of the police's major crime investigation team (MCIT).
Defence lawyer Rama Valayden memorably claimed MCIT stood for 'My confession is true'.
Treebhoowoon said much of the alleged violence was meted out in the team's headquarters in Port Louis.
Each claim was rejected by the MCIT personnel when they gave evidence.
The head of the MCIT, assistant chief commissioner Yoosoof Soopun, was also forced to deny claims he threatened to kill the suspect with a revolver he kept concealed in his sock.
Chief prosecutor Manrakhan challenged Treebhoowoon to explain why doctors who examined him during this period did not find any external signs of injury.
Mr Manrakhan put it to the defendant: 'I tell you, you never got beaten, you lied.'
'No, I got beaten,' he replied firmly.
Mr Teeluckdharry said it would be naive to think police would not know of torture techniques that would leave no marks or traces.
Mr Valayden, who represented Mooneea, shocked the jury as he attempted to demonstrate how hard it was to leave a lasting mark with a slap by striking himself hard on both cheeks.
The nine jurors looked taken aback, especially when the lawyer urged them to do the same.
In a startling revelation during his opening address, Mr Valayden then claimed he had got one of his legal team to subject him to another form of brutality alleged by Treebhoowoon - whipping on the feet with a plastic pipe.
'I asked the big guy to do it on me,' he said pointing at a rather well-set junior counsel sitting behind him. 'But you can try it too.'
Mr Soopun also had to explain the conduct of officers when Mr McAreavey outlined how he was apparently treated by police.
He said the decision to detain the widower was a wrong one, but he blamed the Legends hotel, insisting that staff withheld room entry records that would have immediately eliminated him from inquiries.
WHY WAS DEFENCE LAWYER WHO QUIT THE CASE NOT CALLED AS WITNESS?
No return: Defence lawyer Ravi Rutnah dramatically quit the trial in the second week, but despite saying he would take the witness stand, he never gave evidence.
'I'll be back,' the colourful lawyer declared. 'In Arnold Schwarzenegger style.'
The London-based counsel was referring to his intention to appear as a witness for the defence.
The defence's decision not to call him to the stand left one of the case's most unusual lingering questions unanswered.
Did he or did he not eat the fried rice?
But unlike Schwarzenegger's Terminator, Mr Rutnah was not to return for another scene.
A police witness's claim that the lawyer asked to share his portion of takeaway food the evening his client - Avinash Treebhoowoon - allegedly admitted Michaela McAreavey's murder prompted his withdrawal from the case.
'It was a cordial, friendly atmosphere because we even shared our food with Mr Rutnah,' Inspector Luciano Gerard told court.
'I still remember there was fried rice and I'm not fond of fried rice and I gave him my portion - it was takeaway.'
An incensed Mr Rutnah said the accusation, along with claims he turned up to the meeting at the offices of the police's major crime investigation team (MCIT) more than an hour late, amounted to an attack on his professional integrity.
'As a direct consequence of that, I have decided to withdraw representing accused number one, Avinash Treebhoowoon,' he said.
At that he grabbed three legal textbooks between his hands, tapped them loudly on the bench, turned on his heels and strode out of a shocked court room.
If some observers found the theatrical exit hard to digest, the fried rice simply refused to leave the menu.
Time and again lawyers returned to the topic.
But they were not indulging in frivolity, for the fast food portion became a touchstone for the competing claims of the defence and prosecution.
If Mr Rutnah had shared rice with police officers in a convivial atmosphere it would have undermined his claim that both he and his client were threatened before Treebhoowoon was forced to sign a fabricated confession statement.
If the episode was a figment of the police's imagination it was further proof, defence counsel maintained, that they were prepared to stop at nothing to cover up the fact that they had used violence to compel the suspect to make an admission.
With Mr Rutnah departed stage left, Treebhoowoon's senior counsel Sanjeev Teeluckdharry set about getting to the bottom of the affair.
'You gave your fried rice to Mr Rutnah?' he challenged Mr Gerard under cross-examination.
The policeman replied: 'Yes, I am adamant about that.'
The tenacious lawyer then produced a statement from Mr Gerard's superior, Assistant Police Commissioner Yoosoof Soopun, in which he claimed it was actually him who donated rice to a hungry Mr Rutnah.
'Mr Soopun said he gave fried rice to Mr Ravi Rutnah, and not on the 12th but on 13th January.'
Mr Gerard did not think twice before contradicting his boss.
'If Mr Soopun had given a statement that it was on the 13th I will say that Mr Soopun has made an error. I am totally sure about that.'
The lawyer hit back: 'My instructions are, neither your version or the version of Mr Soopun are correct.'
Mr Gerard stood by his story: 'I would say my version was correct because it was my takeaway. And I gave it to Mr Rutnah.'
Mr Teeluckdharry insisted the whole thing had been made up in an attempt to force his colleague to step aside.
'These are allegations and a below-the-belt attack on a legal representative,' he said.
Chief prosecution Mehdi Manrakhan reacted with incredulity to this assertion.
'What allegations?' he asked.
'Giving someone your fried rice is not an allegation? Below the belt?'
Days later a key prosecution witness unwittingly got embroiled in the matter.
Raj Theekoy, who was originally arrested in the wake of the honeymooner's murder, was asked by Mr Teeluckdharry if he had been served food when in custody.
'Yes, fried rice,' the hotel cleaner replied, wondering why his answer had been met with stifled giggles in the public gallery.
Soon it was the turn of Mr Soopun to give his version of the by then infamous meal in the MCIT building in Port Louis two days after Mrs McAreavey's murder.
'We normally had a special dinner when we worked late and we worked until late on the 12th (January 2011),' he explained to Mr Manrakhan.
Mr Soopun, the head of the MCIT, claimed that after a five-minute meeting with his client about his intention to make a full confession statement the next day Mr Rutnah and Treebhoowoon emerged.
'Then we invited them to share our meal,' he said. 'They said they would be delighted and accepted our invitation.
'Our meal was fried rice, my Lord. Mr Gerard doesn't like to eat fried rice. Mr Rutnah made a request if he can be given the share of Mr Gerard's fried rice and he was happy with it.'
It was an account Mr Rutnah never got the opportunity to challenge in court.
He did not come back as promised in his movie-style farewell.
But if he failed to follow the lead of Schwarzenegger's most famous film character, he still fully intends to replicate the Austrian-born actor's real-life career change.
The lawyer has made no secret of his desire to get into politics and one day become the prime minister of Mauritius.
THE IDYLLIC HONEYMOON IN PARADISE THAT BECAME A NIGHTMARE
There is no Room 1025 at the Legends Hotel any more.
The bricks and mortar of the four walls still stand, but the number has changed.
The bath where Michaela McAreavey was found dead is no longer inside; the bed she shared with her husband John for two nights has also been replaced.
Even the hotel has a new name - Lux.
But memories of the day the Co Tyrone honeymooner was murdered inside the luxury gated resort are harder to erase.
The complex is located in the far north of Mauritius, more than an hour and a half's drive from the international airport in the south-west corner.
The route cuts through large swathes of sugar cane plantations, the tall crops moving in unison in the wind like rolling oceans.
On the verges, fruit sellers sit by abundantly stocked stalls, while vendors with more permanent businesses stand outside their shop fronts - each more colourfully painted than the last.
Sparsely grassed football pitches are a common sight. Competing teams are overloaded with eager young Mauritians, most sporting the familiar strips of English Premier League sides.
John and Michaela McAreavey made the trip on Saturday January 8 2011 - two days before the murder.
The security guard on duty at the imposing wooden front gate would have waved them on through to the arrow-straight, palm tree-lined driveway that leads to the main car park.
On the left side is a small golf course - where Mr McAreavey took a lesson on the morning of the fateful day.
Koi carp swim around an ornamental pond at the front entrance. Close by, fresh flowers float in huge terracotta pots full of water.
The distant thwack of racquet and ball can just be made out over the flowing water features as holidaying couples take in a bit of exercise on the tennis courts.
The ancient feng shui theory of creating positive energy in design features is clearly an influence.
Yin and yang symbols are engraved on glass doors and windows throughout the complex.
The reception area is still monitored by the security camera that became such a key issue during the trial.
On the Sunday of their stay, the McAreaveys attended a briefing on what activities they could indulge in on their planned seven-day stay.
The white sand beach that greets visitors emerging from the wooden-beamed high ceilings of the reception is the base for many of them.
A high-powered speed boat bobs in the shallow turquoise waters of the circular inlet, while the occasional gust catches the sails of the catamarans pulled up on shore ready for use.
Among them is a microlight sea plane that would not look out of place in an old James Bond movie.
Guests in the sheltered bay laugh and joke as they narrowly avoid colliding with each other in cycle pedalos.
Those wanting to take things a bit easier lie on sun loungers beneath the shade of thatched grass parasols or in the large hammocks designed for two.
Looking down on the waterfront is an open-air half-moon-shaped restaurant, its tiled wall and table mosaics depict fish, hinting at the local specialities on offer.
This is not where the McAreaveys enjoyed lunch together shortly before she died.
The Banyon restaurant is at the other end of the complex, almost in a mini resort of its own.
The walk between the two weaves through numerous two-storey accommodation blocks.
The last one before the Banyon is a deluxe building - where the room once numbered 1025 is housed.
It is about 100 to 150 metres from the poolside cafe where John and Michaela lunched on chicken curry - a one to two-minute walk at most.
Jurors retraced that journey when they spent a morning at the hotel during the trial to gain a sense of the locations discussed in court.
Mauritius is a volcanic island and the stack of huge black boulders blocking the eyeline from the rooms to the pool look like they have come straight from the centre of the Earth.
The Banyon is more like a picnic area than a restaurant.
It is tucked away among twisted tree trunks, whose hanging branches and vines provide cover from the sun.
The rustic wooden tables and stools sit in a bed of fine gravel only yards from the figure-eight pool where the honeymooners swam for an hour before a waiter brought them menus.
Beyond the pool the ground falls away to another beach, smaller and noticeably quieter than the main waterfront.
The sliding double doors of Room 1025 were a stone's throw from the water's edge.
A long way out to sea a constant wave breaks over a reef. Further on still an odd-shaped rock rises out of the water like a huge whale taking in air.
The view is idyllic and it was one of the last the McAreaveys shared together before Michaela left to walk back to Room 1025 to get a dark chocolate Kit Kat to enjoy with her tea.
She would never return.
Legends may have been re-christened but one name in this area of Mauritius has endured for much longer.
It is attached to the seafarers' landmark just round the coast from the complex.
IRISH PRIEST FEARS MURDER WILL TARNISH ISLAND'S REPUTATION
A 95-year-old Irish priest who has lived most of his life in Mauritius said he fears the murder of Michaela McAreavey will tarnish the holiday island's hospitable reputation.
The concerns of Father Bernard Farrelly appear to be borne out in part by the latest visitor figures on arrivals from Ireland.
But while 22 per cent fewer Irish are now travelling to the Indian Ocean island in the wake of the crime, overall tourism rates continue to go in the other direction.
For the first time Mauritius is forecast to attract more than one million visitors this year - up 3.1% on 2011.
Fr Farrelly, who retired from active ministry only three years ago, insisted the crime does not reflect the true nature of the country and its people.
'It was a terrible tragedy,' said the cleric, speaking from his little bungalow beside the white stone Catholic church in Sainte Croix near the capital Port Louis.
'They were young, his wife was a little older than him - she was 27 and he was 26 I think.
'Her father (Mickey Harte) was the trainer of the Tyrone team and he was a public figure and very well known, there was great link between her and her father.'
The cleric said locals have prayed for the tragic honeymooner and her widower John since her death at the Legends Hotel.
In 2010, the year before Mrs McAreavey's death, a total of 3,460 Irish citizens visited the island.
The following year the number dipped significantly to 2,717.
There was also sizeable fall off in the number of British passport holders arriving on the island last year compared to the previous. In 2010 around 97,500 visited, while only 88,200 went to Mauritius in 2011.
Wider trends must be factored in, particularly the economic downturn, but in a year that saw overall visitor numbers rise, something was certainly putting the Irish and British off.
Avinash Treebhowon et Sandeep Mooneea innocents
Le verdict est tombé en cour d’assises jeudi soir.
Les neuf membres du jury ont prononcé à l’unanimité l’acquittement
d’Avinash Treebhowon et de Sandeep Mooneea. Les deux employés de l’hôtel
Legends inculpés du meurtre de l’Irlandaise Michaela Harte sont,
désormais, des hommes libres.
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Liberté retrouvée
L’émotion était à son comble dans la salle d’audience en cour d’assises jeudi. Après l’énoncé du verdict des jurés qui ont délibéré pendant deux heures, toute la salle était en ébullition. C’est sous un tonnerre d’applaudissements et des cris de joie que les accusés Avinash Treebhowon et Sandeep Mooneea, ainsi que les membres de leurs familles ont accueilli le verdict aux alentours de 18h20. Aussitôt que le porte-parole du jury s’est prononcé, toute la salle s’est mise à crier à tue-tête et a exprimé sa joie. Il a fallu l’intervention des policiers pour calmer les esprits.
Immédiatement après l’annonce du jugement, John Mc Areavey, sa sœur Claire, son père et le frère de la victime, Marc Harte, ont pris la porte de sortie sans faire de commentaire. Le juge Pritviraj Fekna a alors pris la parole et a avancé que “no stone was left unturned in this case”. Il a remercié les hommes de loi des deux parties. Me Medhi Manrakhan a déclaré qu’il a fait de son mieux pour mener ce cas.
Les membres de la famille de Sandeep Mooneea et ceux d’Avinash Treebhowon n’ont pas perdu de temps pour les serrer dans leurs bras et exprimer leur joie. Après huit semaines de travaux, ce procès qui est qualifié de plus long que la cour d’assises ait jamais connu, a pris fin avec l’acquittement des deux accusés.
Auparavant, lors de la
séance, le juge Pritviraj Fekna a fait un résumé à l’adresse des membres
du jury. Dans son résumé, le juge a parlé des versions de la poursuite
et de la défense. Il a indiqué aux membres du jury quels sont les
éléments qu’ils doivent prendre en considération. Il a également évoqué
les empreintes, les taches de sang, les témoignages des différents
témoins qui sont venus déposer. Le juge n’a pas manqué de se prononcer
sur le témoin Rajiv Bhujun, l’ex bagagiste qui demeure injoignable.
Aussitôt terminé, les neuf membres du jury se sont retirés pour
délibérer. C’était aux alentours de 16 heures.
C’est dans une atmosphère remplie d’émotion, de larmes, de cris et de joie que Sandeep Mooneea et Avinash Treebhowon ont été accueillis, après l’annonce du verdict. Ils avaient passé 18 mois en détention préventive. Ils se sont jetés dans les bras de leurs parents et de leur épouse respective. La présence du député Cehl Meeah et des avocats Mes Ravi Rutnah et Jean Claude Bibi dans la foule n’est pas passée inaperçue.
Avinash Treebhowon : “J’ai souffert pendant 18 mois. J’ai été battu. La police m’a battu. Je remercie mes avocats”.
Sandeep Mooneea : “I’m a free man. La vérité a triomphé. Mon avocat, Rama Valayden, m’a tiré d’affaire. J’ai passé des moments difficiles durant ce procès. Je veux rentrer à la maison”.
Rekha, l’épouse de Sandeep Mooneea : “Vive la justice mauricienne ! La police doit faire son travail comme il faut. Ils m’ont séparé de mon mari après 37 jours de mariage. Ce n’est pas bien ce qu’ils ont fait. Je remercie les avocats qui ont fait un travail formidable”.
Reshma, la femme d’Avinash Treebhowon : “Je suis contente que la vérité a triomphé. Je suis soulagée. A plusieurs reprises j’avais dit que mon mari est innocent, mais personne ne m’écoutait”.
Le directeur des Poursuites publiques a déclaré sur les ondes d’une radio que “personnellement, je suis satisfait du travail et du professionnalisme des avocats de la poursuite. Nous n’allons pas en cour pour obtenir une condamnation. Une condamnation n’est pas une victoire et un acquittement n’est pas une défaite. Nous avons des leçons à tirer. Le moment est venu pour que la police enregistre les aveux obtenus par les suspects. Puis, les rapports scientifiques doivent nous aider à résoudre les crimes. Ce n’est pas le moment de pointer du doigt qui que ce soit. Je souhaite que justice soit faite pour la famille Harte”.
C’est dans une atmosphère remplie d’émotion, de larmes, de cris et de joie que Sandeep Mooneea et Avinash Treebhowon ont été accueillis, après l’annonce du verdict. Ils avaient passé 18 mois en détention préventive. Ils se sont jetés dans les bras de leurs parents et de leur épouse respective. La présence du député Cehl Meeah et des avocats Mes Ravi Rutnah et Jean Claude Bibi dans la foule n’est pas passée inaperçue.
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Avinash Treebhowon : “J’ai souffert pendant 18 mois. J’ai été battu. La police m’a battu. Je remercie mes avocats”.
Sandeep Mooneea : “I’m a free man. La vérité a triomphé. Mon avocat, Rama Valayden, m’a tiré d’affaire. J’ai passé des moments difficiles durant ce procès. Je veux rentrer à la maison”.
Rekha, l’épouse de Sandeep Mooneea : “Vive la justice mauricienne ! La police doit faire son travail comme il faut. Ils m’ont séparé de mon mari après 37 jours de mariage. Ce n’est pas bien ce qu’ils ont fait. Je remercie les avocats qui ont fait un travail formidable”.
Reshma, la femme d’Avinash Treebhowon : “Je suis contente que la vérité a triomphé. Je suis soulagée. A plusieurs reprises j’avais dit que mon mari est innocent, mais personne ne m’écoutait”.
Le directeur des Poursuites publiques a déclaré sur les ondes d’une radio que “personnellement, je suis satisfait du travail et du professionnalisme des avocats de la poursuite. Nous n’allons pas en cour pour obtenir une condamnation. Une condamnation n’est pas une victoire et un acquittement n’est pas une défaite. Nous avons des leçons à tirer. Le moment est venu pour que la police enregistre les aveux obtenus par les suspects. Puis, les rapports scientifiques doivent nous aider à résoudre les crimes. Ce n’est pas le moment de pointer du doigt qui que ce soit. Je souhaite que justice soit faite pour la famille Harte”.
Me Rama Valayden :
“Je suis satisfait de la décision des jurés, mais j’ai aussi une
tristesse dans le cœur pour la famille Harte. Ce verdict apportera un
signal fort contre le mode opératoire de la MCIT. C’est tout le travail
fait conjointement qui a été récompensé. Il faut arrêter la brutalité
policière”.
Me Sanjeev Teeluckdharry : “Très content que mon client a été tiré d’affaire. La voix du peuple a tranché”.
DI Ranjit Jokhoo de la MCIT : “On a fait l’enquête comme il le faut. On respecte le verdict des membres du jury. Il n’y a pas de défaite ni de victoire”.
Me Sanjeev Teeluckdharry : “Très content que mon client a été tiré d’affaire. La voix du peuple a tranché”.
DI Ranjit Jokhoo de la MCIT : “On a fait l’enquête comme il le faut. On respecte le verdict des membres du jury. Il n’y a pas de défaite ni de victoire”.
Avinash Treebhowon and Sandeep Mooneea found to have been FALSELY, WRONGLY accused! God bless them both and their loved ones!
THE POLICE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AND THE GUILTY ONES PUNISHED! The DPP should resign! Or, is this just another political farce?
Is the Mauritian Poolice not trained in Israel?
Ghyslaine
THE POLICE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AND THE GUILTY ONES PUNISHED! The DPP should resign! Or, is this just another political farce?
Is the Mauritian Poolice not trained in Israel?
Ghyslaine
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• Breaking news: Sunday Times issues apology
Mrs McAreavey, 27, from County Tyrone, was killed in her room at the Legends hotel in Mauritius in January 2011.
The photographs were taken at the crime scene in her hotel room.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the actions of the Mauritian Sunday Times in publishing the photographs were "callous and unjustifiable".
Mr McGuinness said the pictures of the crime scene compounded the grief of the McAreavey and Harte families.
Mauritian police have raided the offices of the Sunday Times newspaper in Port Louis in search of crime scene photos of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey.
A police spokesman said no photographs were found and no one has been arrested.
Mr Robinson said: "Have the McAreavey and Harte families not already suffered enough? This paper by their actions has inflicted more pain and suffering on them and the decision to print these images is utterly contemptible.
"We will be writing to the government in Mauritius to seek an explanation on why this was allowed to happen and to ascertain what actions they will be taking as a consequence. The actions of this newspaper cannot go unchallenged."
Mr McGuinness said: "There is a deep sense of anger and horror at this development. To date justice has been denied to the McAreavey and Harte families and the publication of these photographs at the end of what has been a very difficult week for them has compounded their grief.
"We are dismayed and astonished at this blatant invasion of privacy. I plan to travel to London on Thursday to discuss the situation with the Mauritian High Commissioner.
"We are also writing to our Attorney General to seek legal opinion on whether any future trial has been in any way prejudiced or compromised by the actions of this newspaper."
The Irish ambassador to Mauritius is to make a "strong protest" over the publication of the photos.
The ambassador will also press for an urgent examination of the murder case.
"The ambassador will in the first instance convey a strong protest to the Mauritian authorities at what appears to be the leaking of evidential material to the local media there," said Irish deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore.
"He will also enquire as to what further actions will be undertaken by the authorities there to investigate the murder."
Mr Gilmore said he had not seen the photographs, which included a full-length image of Mrs McAreavey's body in her hotel room and close-ups of injuries on her neck.
"I would consider looking at those photos to be an invasion of Michaela's privacy and the privacy of her family," he said.
He said he had spoken to John McAreavey, and that he was very concerned that "an urgent examination of the case be undertaken to ensure that justice will be seen to be done for Michaela, John and their families".
"I believe the Mauritian authorities have a responsibility to ensure that evidence did not come into the hands of the media," said Mr Gilmore.
"I'm very concerned that did happen."
Mr McAreavey and other family members returned home from Mauritius at the weekend, after a gruelling eight-week trial.
Legends hotel workers Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon were cleared of Mrs McAreavey's killing by a jury at the Supreme Court in Port Louis last Thursday, 12 July.
The Sunday Times newspaper has issued an apology to the Harte and McAreavey families for publishing crime scene photographs. Sunday Times Director General Imran Hosany issued a statement this morning. It said: "The aim was not to make sensationalism but to recall that such a heinous crime remained unpunished."
Source: BBC & UTV
KILL YOUR BABIES IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BRING THEM UP!
Michaela photos: McGuinness to meet Mauritian High Commissioner (VIDEO)
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin
McGuinness is to travel to London on Thursday to meet the Mauritian
High Commissioner. They will discuss the publication of pictures of Michaela McAreavey's body in a newspaper on the island.
• Breaking news: Sunday Times issues apology
Mrs McAreavey, 27, from County Tyrone, was killed in her room at the Legends hotel in Mauritius in January 2011.
The photographs were taken at the crime scene in her hotel room.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the actions of the Mauritian Sunday Times in publishing the photographs were "callous and unjustifiable".
Mr McGuinness said the pictures of the crime scene compounded the grief of the McAreavey and Harte families.
Mauritian police have raided the offices of the Sunday Times newspaper in Port Louis in search of crime scene photos of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey.
A police spokesman said no photographs were found and no one has been arrested.
Mr Robinson said: "Have the McAreavey and Harte families not already suffered enough? This paper by their actions has inflicted more pain and suffering on them and the decision to print these images is utterly contemptible.
'Anger and horror'
"We will be writing to the government in Mauritius to seek an explanation on why this was allowed to happen and to ascertain what actions they will be taking as a consequence. The actions of this newspaper cannot go unchallenged."
Mr McGuinness said: "There is a deep sense of anger and horror at this development. To date justice has been denied to the McAreavey and Harte families and the publication of these photographs at the end of what has been a very difficult week for them has compounded their grief.
"We are dismayed and astonished at this blatant invasion of privacy. I plan to travel to London on Thursday to discuss the situation with the Mauritian High Commissioner.
"We are also writing to our Attorney General to seek legal opinion on whether any future trial has been in any way prejudiced or compromised by the actions of this newspaper."
The Irish ambassador to Mauritius is to make a "strong protest" over the publication of the photos.
The ambassador will also press for an urgent examination of the murder case.
'Invasion of privacy'
"The ambassador will in the first instance convey a strong protest to the Mauritian authorities at what appears to be the leaking of evidential material to the local media there," said Irish deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore.
"He will also enquire as to what further actions will be undertaken by the authorities there to investigate the murder."
Mr Gilmore said he had not seen the photographs, which included a full-length image of Mrs McAreavey's body in her hotel room and close-ups of injuries on her neck.
"I would consider looking at those photos to be an invasion of Michaela's privacy and the privacy of her family," he said.
He said he had spoken to John McAreavey, and that he was very concerned that "an urgent examination of the case be undertaken to ensure that justice will be seen to be done for Michaela, John and their families".
"I believe the Mauritian authorities have a responsibility to ensure that evidence did not come into the hands of the media," said Mr Gilmore.
"I'm very concerned that did happen."
Mr McAreavey and other family members returned home from Mauritius at the weekend, after a gruelling eight-week trial.
Legends hotel workers Sandip Moneea and Avinash Treebhoowoon were cleared of Mrs McAreavey's killing by a jury at the Supreme Court in Port Louis last Thursday, 12 July.
Apology
The Sunday Times newspaper has issued an apology to the Harte and McAreavey families for publishing crime scene photographs. Sunday Times Director General Imran Hosany issued a statement this morning. It said: "The aim was not to make sensationalism but to recall that such a heinous crime remained unpunished."
KILL YOUR BABIES IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BRING THEM UP!
Dear Prime Minister
We wish to express our unflinching support for your courageous initiative to amend the 1838 Anti Abortion Law.
We wish to express our unflinching support for your courageous initiative to amend the 1838 Anti Abortion Law.
We also note your intelligent and
non-partisan approach respecting all the religious and secular powers that have
in one way or other pushed to have the subject opened up for public scrutiny.
The approval or disapproval of the amendments will no doubt depend on the
various interests espoused by various sectors but the middle path you navigated
will no doubt steer the nation out of controversial waters.
The fact that you have understood the agony of women in general who face difficult personal choices and who are now free to have their respective cases examined on a case to case basis will undoubtedly bring great relief and will safeguard human rights enshrined in our constitution.
Abortion revolves around personal choices and individual circumstances which are inviolable and sacred. We are dealing here with the inalienable rights of the individual which is today no longer a matter of religious dogma nor a matter of dialectics. It is a matter of destiny. We are glad that you have so firmly held the reins despite all the pressures.
Thank you for the prompt realisation and the courageous stand taken by your government to bell the cat.
THE NAMES OF THE ZIONIST MURDER PREACHING GURUS, THE CALLERS FOR
MURDER: MOSTLY HINDU AND ONE CHRISTIAN CHINESE SOUNDING NAMES!
Lady
Padma Ghurburrun
Lindsey Collen
Parti Lalit
Vidula
Nababsingh
Associate Professor
Vidya
Charan
Executive Director,
Family Planning Association
Touria
Prayag
Journalist
Vimla
Hanoomanjee
Consultant in
Economics
Vimla
Jadunundan
Research Assistant
Satinder
Ragobur
Associate Professor
Kokila
Deepchand
Social Worker-Head of
Jagriti Women’s Association
Ranjita
Bunwaree
Alliance of Women
Marie
Lourdes Lam Hung
Barrister-at-Law
Shakuntala
Hawoldar
Consultant in
Education and Media
VIVE
LA "NATION" MAURICIENNE!
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Anne-Catherine Powers et Shakti Ramsurrun.
Shakti Ramsurrun, un Mauricien résidant
au Canada, est accusé d’un triple-meurtre au Québec. Il est suspecté d’avoir
poignardé sa femme, sa belle-mère ainsi que le compagnon de celle-ci.
Shakti Ramsurrun, un Mauricien âgé de 28 ans
est poursuivi par la justice canadienne pour trois meurtres. Il est soupçonné
d’avoir mortellement poignardé sa femme âgée de 21 ans Anne-Katherine Powers,
ainsi que la mère et le beau-père de celle-ci, Louise Leboeuf âgée de 63 ans et
Claude Lévesque âgé de 58 ans.
Les faits se sont déroulés jeudi 24 mai à Aylmer, dans la région de Gatineau au Québec. La relation entre Shakti Ramsurrun et sa femme battait de l’aile et elle avait décidé de le quitter. C’est ce qui aurait provoqué ce coup de folie du Mauricien, selon les médias locaux.
Le couple s’était rencontré en 2009 sur un bateau de croisière. Le jeune homme était serveur sur le paquebot alors que la jeune femme était en vacances avec ses parents. Le couple s’est marié l’année suivant leur rencontre à l’île Maurice avant de s’installer au Québec.
L’idylle commençait à tourner au
cauchemar quand Anne-Katherine Powers a commencé à en avoir marre du penchant
pour la fête et l’alcool de son mari. Shakti Ramsurrun devenait violent par
moment quand il avait bu un verre de trop. Il est allé jusqu’à menacer sa
belle-mère avec un couteau quand elle était venue rendre visite au couple à
Maurice.
Le Mauricien a été interpellé sur son lieu de travail au club de golf Rivermead avec son fils de 15 mois. Shakti Ramsurrun a comparu devant la justice hier. Il a été mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire.
Source: Linfo.re
VIVE LA "NATION"
MAURICIENNE!
LE DÉFI MEDIA GROUP
Monday, 21 May 2012 10:48
Case for and against Abortion in Pleasure Island Mauritius
(15
votes)
What is
modern about getting rid of a foetus or of a few weeks old baby from within the
mother’s womb, which entails crushing the foetus or the baby into bits and
removing the pieces before chucking them in the bin, not to mention the mental
trauma the mother is most likely to suffer from for the rest of her life?
Regarded as a necessarily evil in very extreme cases, the excuse of the future
physical or mental health of the woman is clearly a loophole for outright
abortion. The very same doctors carrying out back-street (illegal) abortions
will, after their legalisation, provide justification for carrying out those
abortions. The sex trade will soon evolve into the trade of foetuses.
Bearing in mind that social ills have a high degree
of positive correlation with economic problems, rather than coming up with
modern financial solutions to resolve the economic woes Mauritius is suffering
from, Finance Minister Xavier-Luc Duval sees the proposed legalisation of abortion in « specific cases
» as « modern ». What is modern about getting rid of a foetus or of a few weeks
old baby from within the mother’s womb, which entails crushing the foetus or
the baby into bits and removing the pieces before chucking them in the bin, not
to mention the mental trauma the mother is most likely to suffer from for the
rest of her life?
Vices in a Pleasure Island
Mauritius hosts every year a number of tourists nearly equal to its
population of around 1.2 million people and under which the sex trade has flourished.
Particularly men, with their oversexed drive, are in quest of sexual
gratifications, especially older men desiring younger girls (and boys). Virgins
fetch a prized bonus. Even many parents put up their young girls for sale. If
abortion is legalised in the way the government is proposing, then this trade
will undoubtedly flourish since there is a
direct positive correlation between the tourist industry and the sex trade, which is a function of the legality of abortion. Clearly,
legalisation of abortion will not resolve this social epidemic. On the
contrary, it will encourage it as the girl selling her body will do so without
fear, just like the Indian hemp smoker will, should the drug be legalised.
Wise Monique Dinan
Unscrupulous lobbies, such as the « Lalit
Party » wrongly believe that women have the « inalienable rights » to do
whatever they like with their bodies and that anything or anyone who tries to
interfere with their ‘rights’ to get rid of ‘their’ babies (ignoring how they
got there) amounts to « religious dogma », but at the same time they
contradictorily say « it is a matter of destiny ». [Ref. «The abortion issue:
Open letter to the PM », Matinal 18th May 2012]. What about « secular dogma »?
In contrast, in her « LETTRE OUVERTE AU PM, AU LEADER DE L'OPPOSITION ET À TOUS LES DÉPUTÉS: L’avortement, l’adoption et
la loi ! », published in Le Mauricien of 17th May 2012, Monique Dinan makes the
following very valid points :
1)
« l'absence d'un comité d'étude de toute la question de la légalisation
de l'avortement avec des professionnels et praticiens médicaux, des
travailleurs sociaux et des psychologues ».
2) « A quand la réforme de la loi sur l'adoption plutôt que
celle de l'avortement ? »
3) « l'actuel projet de légalisation de l'avortement sous
certaines conditions, pas suffisamment travaillé, vient diviser les Mauriciens
en deux camps sur un sujet aussi vital que la vie humaine. »
4) « L'argent public sera dorénavant destiné à tuer des vies
innocentes en plein développement vers la naissance »
5) « Combien d'enfants, acceptés à contrecœur au départ, sont
venus guérir les cœurs meurtris des mamans pour qui la grossesse qui
s'annonçait ne représentait au départ qu'angoisses et problèmes ? »
Since abortion goes to the very source of
life, Eric Guimbeau is right in saying that there should be a referendum on
the issue of abortion because it is a matter of national interest (Défi 17th
May 2012 - « Avortement : Eric Guimbeau réclame
un référendum sur le sujet »). Also, he said in no uncertain
terms : « Qui
suis-je pour décider de la vie d’un innocent ? ».
Morality and pragmatism
Many people make the mistake of considering morality and pragmatism as mutually
exclusive. A moral decision may very well be a pragmatic decision. For example,
aborting a several weeks old unborn baby to save the mother’s life is both
moral and pragmatic. But if, with modern advances in science, an unborn baby is
diagnosed with a deformity, or diagnosed as conjoined twins, is it justified to
abort the baby even if the mother’s life is not at risk? Does a pregnant
woman have the right to abort her baby if it is diagnosed with a deformity?
Does this not amount to discrimination against the handicapped? The Fédération
des associations des personnes handicapées à Maurice (FAPHM) is therefore
justified in denouncing the government proposal to « kill » such foetus if the
bearer so wishes.
In principle, all major religions are against abortion since no one has the
right to take away any human life. A foetus, therefore, is regarded as human
life, albeit it is in a helpless state and at the mercy of abortionists and
pro-death campaigners. The arguments for the preservation of human life are
very strong indeed, something which no one can deny. But under what circumstances
can an unborn baby be aborted or ‘murdered’, as some prefer to call it?
The Mauritian government has come up with the following « specific cases » in
which abortion can be carried out if voted into law :
1) Where the pregnancy likely
to endanger the mother’s life.
2) In order to prevent serious consequences on the physical
or mental health of the person (meaning the pregnant woman or adolescent).
3) Where there are high risks of severe malformation of the
foetus.
4) In cases of rape, incest or sexual relations with a minor.
In the above cases, the woman or the child less than 16 years old will have the
right to elect for termination.
Although abortion may be seen as a necessary evil in certain very extreme
cases, the excuse of the future physical or mental health of the pregnant
person is clearly a loophole for outright abortion and need to be removed or
redrafted. The very same doctors carrying out back-street (illegal) abortions
will, after their legalisation, provide justification for carrying out those
same abortions. In India,
under sex-selective abortions, pregnant women use all sort of excuses to abort
their unborn babies because they are girls. Around 7000 unborn girls die from sex-selection abortion daily in India. They are also referred to as « India’s lost daughters ». Yatin
Varma’s contention that « c’est à la femme de
décider ce qu’elle doit faire de son corps »
is an extremely irresponsible statement. («
Avortement – Zoom sur l’aspect légal », Défi
12 May 2012). Rather, he should be telling people how many unwanted pregnancies
are related to the tourist industry.
If mental problems of the mother in cases of rape, for example, are used to
justify abortion, how about the mental problems of women who have been victims
of burglary, attacks, and beatings by their husbands? Who should be aborted?
What about the mental problems of the woman who had gone through abortion,
especially given that such action is irreversible. What safety mechanisms have
the government put in place? Dominique Dinan wisely points out that the government has not worked it
through properly. There is also a lack of empirical data on abortions carried
out and the types of people choosing to have abortions. On what premise is the
government therefore pushing through the abortion laws? The government
has also failed in taking responsibility for those ‘unwanted’ babies and in
finding adoptive homes for them, but rather leaves them at the mercy of rape
victims, for example.
Conclusion
Views are diametrically opposed. It would be
wrong for the government to impose the pro-abortion law on the people, albeit
in specific cases with clear loopholes to allow outright abortion and in the
absence of a transparent safety mechanism to ensure that the legalisation is
not abused. For an island like Mauritius,
which has been turned into a Pleasure Island through savage tourism, what the government is not saying
is that it will be easier for young girls to sell their bodies to tourists as
their pregnancies would be able to be aborted lawfully in a permissive society.
The sex trade will soon evolve into the trade
of foetuses. The Daily Mail of the 19th May
2012 reports the following « A British citizen (Hok Kuen Chow, 28, a Briton
born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents) has been arrested in Bangkok after six foetuses were found stuffed
into travel bags. »
If abortion should be legalised simply because they want to make legal what is
known to be illegally practised, then so should smoking cannabis, Indian hemp,
gandia, weed, etc. The same argument was used for the legalisation of sodomy
amongst males in certain countries when the underground illegal movement
surfaced as « gay pride ». In Holland, there was even a political party formed
by paedophiles in favour of the legalisation or paedophilia, a practice which,
like in the case of abortion in Mauritius, is still underground, until the
practice is legalised, in ‘specific cases’, of course. There are also
indications that the government has come up with the bill to legalise abortion
to deviate attention from its failure in promoting a healthy society and to
deal with the root causes of unwanted pregnancies, which has become a permanent
feature in the Pleasure Island which is bringing in foreign currency. The easy way out is
clearly abortion, which should pave the way for other similar laws as many
Mauritian politicians are so fond of the permissive and decadent European
societies they tend to emulate. Lawmakers, many of whom are parents themselves,
will have to vote with their own conscience and not succumb to the propaganda
of pleasure-seekers.
A Physician Tells
Why Abortion Is Murder
Note by
Pastor E. L. Bynum: This article is, in my opinion, one of the best
on the subject of abortion. It is written by a practicing physician who daily
seeks to preserve life. The forceful straightforward style of writing gets your
attention and emphasizes the tragedy going on in every state in our union with
the blessings of federal law and U.S. Supreme Court sanction.
I am a physician. I have been trained to protect
and preserve life. Since medical school, I have delivered many babies, though
the bulk of my training and practice is in pediatrics - the care of babies and
children. As one who loves children (my wife and I have six), I speak today on
behalf of children - children of all ages: Toddlers, babies and especially
those little pre-born humans who today reside inside their mothers or who later
will be received and delivered (or murdered).
During the months leading to the Emancipation Proclamation, President
Lincoln repeatedly discussed the matter with his cabinet. During one difficult
discussion, he asked: "Gentlemen, how many legs
does a sheep have?" Each man answered correctly, "Four, Mr.
President." He proceeded, "Let's call his tail a leg. Now how many
legs?" Each man replied, "Five, Mr. President." Mr. Lincoln
retorted, "Nope, still only four. Just because we call it a leg doesn't
make it one."
Mr. Lincoln's wit and wisdom speak to our present day confusion
about abortion. Let me explain.
Abortion is murder. Each abortion snuffs out an innocent human life. Tragically, doctors have deceived the American public. Referring to unborn babies as "fetus," "embryo," or "zygote," may be scientifically correct, but does not change the fact: These little ones are little human beings. Though called "parasite," "blob," or "tissue," give each wee creature about 266 days after conception and see what emerges from his mother's womb. It will be a human baby, not a zebra, a trout, frog or an orangutan.
Remember Mr. Lincoln. Don't be deceived by folks (even doctors) who call a tail a leg - or humans anything but humans. When a human egg and a human sperm unite, the resulting individual is simply human. Given time, nutrition and protection, he or she will grow to maturity. Calling abortion a "termination" or "evacuating the uterus" doesn't change its reality as murder-slaughtering a human being with premeditated malice.
Some Comments Comical
Were it not tragic, some abortion comments could be comical. A
previous guest writer on this page, Dr. Harrison, said the unborn baby is "a parasite without feeling, thought, or
experience... the fetus simply does not have the things required to feel
pain..."
But nerves are in place by six to eight weeks after conception. The chemicals necessary to send messages over nerve pathways to the brain are present by 12 weeks. Ask yourself - if you were stuck, pinched, grabbed, cut or crushed, how would you react? You likely would squirm, thrash, try to escape or fight. Your blood pressure would go up; your pulse would speed up.
That's how pre-born babies respond. Before being cut to
pieces, sucked apart, chemically killed, or otherwise abused (to death), these
little humans struggle, seeking to escape the destruction. In my opinion,
abortionists have forfeited the privilege to be called "physicians",
for they have abandoned the responsibility of acting like physicians.
What about rape? What about incest? These horrors defy descriptive condemnation. They represent the least human and most selfish acts imaginable - along with murder - and they deserve swift and severe punishment. A woman or girl abused by rape or incest should be seen promptly, evaluated with compassion and treated appropriately to prevent conception. Should pregnancy occur, the tragedy should not be compounded by another crime: Murdering the baby.
Rape and incest deserve one further note: They (thank God) represent a relatively uncommon cause of pregnancy - and figure in less than 2 percent of abortions. The other 98 percent are done for the sake of convenience (not that of the baby). Abortion represents the most common surgical procedure performed in America today. Enough human lives are snuffed out each day to populate Mena, De Queen, or Fordyce. Each week, abortionists slaughter a group of babies equal in number to the population of Springdale or El Dorado.
One more tragedy - often delayed and overlooked - concerns the
mother of the aborted baby. I have cared for and counseled such women - women
who find it difficult to live with an awakened conscience. Though duped,
squelched or ignored, a conscience awakened to reality may produce guilt, grief
and pain. Even with the reality of forgiveness, the scars may produce
long-standing consequences.
One last 'leg-tail' deserves comment. Can you remember folks
saying, "Don't
push your morality on me!" when foes of abortion challenge its
practise? Most
folk appreciate our society's restrictions on rape, robbery, assault and murder
- and those restrictions are based on morality, as is every aspect of our
lives, whether collectively or individually.
As a believer in
Jesus Christ, I'm convinced that moral absolutes exist. My convictions as a Christian
and as a physician include the sanctity of human life. If each individual human
(including unborn babies) does not have worth, if we do not acknowledge our
responsibility to care for the unwanted and the defenseless, we will find our
collective path ending at “the ovens of Auschwitz”, the
Gulags of Siberia, or the Abortion Chambers of America.
Abortion is Murder!
Doctors suspended in the furore over abortion by gender
By Tamara Cohen and James TozerTwo doctors have been suspended after being filmed granting women illegal abortions based on the gender of their baby.
An undercover investigation found consultants apparently agreed to terminate a pregnancy based only on the baby’s sex, with ‘no questions asked’.
Some were recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the abortions, it is claimed.
Suspended: Consultant Prabha Sivaraman booked a patient in for an abortion under instructions that 'no questions were asked'
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said he was ‘extremely concerned’ about the allegations and that the abortion clinics have been referred to police to investigate whether an offence has been committed.
One of the consultants, Prabha Sivaraman, who works for private clinics and NHS hospitals in Manchester, told a young woman who wanted to abort a female foetus: ‘I don’t ask questions. If you want a termination, you want a termination.’
The woman claimed to have had a blood test in France which had left her ‘pretty certain’ she was having a girl.
She said: ‘That’s not really appropriate for us right now, we were hoping for a boy. It’s the wrong gender – that’s how it is. I’m positive that’s what I want.’
Miss Sivaraman, a registered obstetrician and gynaecologist who works at Pall Mall Medical in Manchester, told the woman that she could have the procedure as a private patient for £200 to £300 on top of the £500 she paid for the consultation.
'Extremely concerned': Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has promised a full investigation into the latest abortion scandal
A spokesman for Pall Mall Medical said it had ‘suspended clinical contact’ with Miss Sivaraman. ‘The clinic does not condone in any way the referral for termination on the grounds of gender,’ he added.
The Pennine General Hospitals Trust, which runs North Manchester General Hospital, said that it was investigating the allegations but would not confirm if it had suspended Miss Sivaraman.
As part of an investigation, reporters accompanied pregnant women to nine clinics across the country, of which three said they were prepared to abort the baby because of its gender.
The women, who were from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, said they had either taken a blood test to determine the sex of the baby or had had a scan.
Mr Lansley said yesterday following the revelations in the Daily Telegraph: ‘Sex selection is illegal and is morally wrong. I’ve asked my officials to investigate this as a matter of urgency.’
A second doctor, Claudine Domoney, a private consultant for a clinic in west London, is also alleged to have agreed to let a woman who was 18 weeks pregnant abort a boy because her husband had a son from his first marriage.
Miss Domoney, who saw the woman at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, said she was going away but would ask a colleague to carry out the procedure.
She said after making a phone call: ‘He’s okay for Tuesday.’ She later revealed she had referred the case to a colleague because she was ‘uncomfortable with the situation’.
'Criminal offences may have been committed and we will take urgent action'
Department of Health spokesman
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said
Miss Domoney had been suspended pending an investigation. A spokesman
added: ‘We take extremely seriously the allegations made against one of
its consultants, Claudine Domoney.Department of Health spokesman
‘The practice of “family balancing” through abortion is illegal. The Trust observes this law and does not offer termination of pregnancy on the basis of gender. We are investigating these very serious allegations as a matter of urgency.’ A man believed to be Miss Domoney’s partner refused to comment last night at their home in Tooting, south-west London.
Indian-trained Miss Sivaraman was at her £500,000 home in the upmarket Dore area of Sheffield but also refused to comment.
Her husband, understood to be Manu Mathew, a consultant in ophthalmology at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Derbyshire, said: ‘We’ve both been advised not to comment.’
Other clinics were said to have told the women terminations on the basis of gender were illegal and that they were unable to help.
A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘We will be speaking to the police. Criminal offences may have been committed and we will take urgent action.’
The General Medical Council and the Care Quality Commission, which monitors these clinics, has been asked to investigate.
In 2010, 189,574 abortions were carried out in England and Wales, an 8 per cent increase in a decade.
L’AVORTEMENT - Pourquoi pas de débats religieux et séculiers
dans l’intérêt de la nation ?
En refusant tout débat
religieux sur la question, le Procureur Général Me Yatin Varma n’est-il pas en
train d’insinuer que le religieux ne compte plus et ne doit pas avoir voix au
chapitre concernant un projet qui risque d’ébranler l’édifice même des
religions concernées qui ont pour fondement la valeur de la vie
humaine ? Ne pose-t-il pas le
séculier en maître absolu à bord de l’appareil d’état ? Ne poursuit-il pas son propre agenda, et celui
d’un gouvernement archi corrompu et incompétent qui se sert de ce projet
abominable, aux yeux du religieux, qu’est la légalisation du meurtre de
l’indésirable, sous le couvert de termes savants comme avortement ou
interruption de grossesse ou encore de cas soi-disant spécifiques, avec des
lacunes et ambiguïtés pour favoriser l’avortement tout court, et dévier
l’attention d’une société moribonde en raison d’une gouvernance acariâtre qui
se laisse mener par le bout du nez par des idéologies athées fascistes et
fascisantes ?
Avortement dans des cas spécifiques – Légalisation de la
mort avec ‘fierté’ !
<< Être député, a-t-il fait
ressortir, c’est accepter que l’intérêt général prime sur les convictions
personnelles >>, dit Raj Meetarbhan concernant les propos du député
Shakeel Mohamed (« Débat éclairé », l’Express 5 juin 2012). Le député ajouta : « My role as a Parliamentarian here is not to
impose my personal view on my Constituency. My role as a Parliamentarian, Mr
Speaker, Sir, is not to impose my views on the people of Mauritius ». L'avortement dans des cas spécifiques d’ordre médical ne concerne que les
cas spécifiques (et donc minoritaires), mais par quel miracle le député Shakeel
Mohamed a-t-il pu évaluer l'intérêt général' dans ce cas ? Pourquoi ne pas nous renseigner d’abord sur la
volonté de ses électeurs ou de sa circonscription concertant le projet de légalisation
de l’avortement dans des cas spécifiques comme proposés ?
Un coq enroué !
Nous avons déjà établi les faits incontestables que les dispositions de
cette nouvelle loi sont très mal rédigées, et qu’elles sont ambiguës et truffées
de lacunes. Il serait bon de rappeler que même les Law Lords du Privy Council
ont souvent critiqué la manière dont certaines dispositions de certaines lois sont
rédigées à Maurice, en raison d’un manque de maitrise de la langue anglaise. Le vaniteux Yatin Varma, se disant « fier »
comme un coq d’avoir « piloté » un projet de loi pour légaliser la tuerie des
fœtus et des bébés en voie de naître, ne se rend pas compte de son abominable
bêtise ! Rien n’empêche les séculiers (d’ailleurs, combien
sont-ils ?) de débattre de leur côté et les religieux de leur côté, et
ensuite d’ouvrir un débat public entre tous les partis concernés sans exclure
l’autre. Mais, le séculier (encore mal
défini) se montre intolérant et ne cherche qu’à voir imposer sur toute la
nation un système politique pervers et sans moralité aucune. À croire que les religieux, ne forment plus parti
intégrante de la nation mauricienne !
Pourquoi pas un référendum pour définir cet intérêt général au lieu de
palabres d’hommes ou de femmes politiques?
C’est déjà une proposition obscène de la part d’une femme qui se
respecte que de prétendre que la femme peut disposer de son corps comme bon lui
semble car cela ne peut qu’ouvrir la porte à toutes les dérives possibles. Et, que l’homme y met son grain de sel, l’on
est en droit de se poser la question : Cui bono ? C’est toujours le même problème avec des gens
qui ont abandonné leurs religions (renégats et autres) ou les valeurs que leurs
parents leur ont léguées ! De
refuser tout débat religieux, Yatin Varma ne fait que démontrer son intolérance
et incompétence en ce qui concerne le respect des sensibilités de la nation
mauricienne. Ne poursuit-il pas son
propre agenda, et celui d’un gouvernement archi corrompu et incompétent qui se
sert de ce projet abominable, aux yeux du religieux, qu’est la légalisation du
meurtre de l’indésirable, sous le couvert de termes savants comme avortement ou
interruption de grossesse ou encore de cas soi-disant spécifiques, avec des
lacunes et ambiguïtés pour favoriser l’avortement tout court, et dévier l’attention
d’une société moribonde en raison d’une gouvernance acariâtre qui se laisse
mener par le bout du nez par des idéologies athées fascistes et
fascisantes ?
Cas spécifiques ambigus et
la discrimination contre l’handicap
L’avortement pour sauver la vie de la maman se comprend. Mais, quand un
fœtus ou un bébé à naître a été diagnostiqué avec une malformation, qui a le
droit de décider si ce bébé innocent a le droit de vivre ou non ? Qui a le
droit de décider, par exemple, si un bébé diagnostiqué avec Down Syndrome devrait être démembré dans
l’utérus maternel et jeté à la poubelle ? De plus, de quel degré de
malformation s’agit-il ? Qui a le droit de discriminer contre un bébé qui
souffre d’une malformation, même si ce bébé est à naître ? Mgr Piat a raison
de dire que c’est un problème de société et que le gouvernement a le devoir de
prendre la situation en main et qu’on ne peut engendrer une culture de la mort.
Il a eu également raison de dire qu’ « un
fœtus n’est pas un objet que l’on peut jeter mais bien un être humain ».
Culpabilité du viol et de
l’inceste
L’avortement dans le cas de viol (ou de l’inceste) reste toujours à être
élaboré. Malgré que Me Satyajit Boolell, Senior Counsel et Directeur de
Poursuites publiques, en tant que légiste ayant pour devoir d’appliquer les
lois et les conventions, en dépit du fait qu’elles peuvent bien être injustes,
se sente obligé d’accueillir favorablement le projet de loi par rapport aux
engagements pris par le gouvernement mauricien vis-à-vis des conventions des
Nations Unies ayant pour but d’éliminer la discrimination envers les femmes, il
a eu raison de dire que cette provision serait difficile à appliquer.
Légalement, un viol n’est qu’un viol que quand l’accusé est trouvé coupable, souvent
bien des années après, sans compter les fausses allégations d’abus sexuels. En
même temps, il est très dommage que personne ne parle de la discrimination
contre le bébé à naître. De plus, autant que l’on sache, la femme ne tombe
enceinte que par l’homme à moins d’une insémination artificielle! Le rôle vital
du père ne peut donc lui être refusé. Certes, la situation est différente dans
le cas de viol ou d’inceste. Mais, pour de tels délits, nos lois ne
devraient-elles pas être bien plus sévères pour éliminer le viol et
l’inceste ou les réduire au strict minimum? Or, le gouvernement, insensible aux mœurs et
coutumes millénaires, semble préférer
éliminer le fœtus et le bébé à naître. Le débat est donc faussé dès le départ.
Toujours la charrue devant
les bœufs
Parlant de conventions, dont Maurice serait déjà signataire, pourquoi le
gouvernement n’a-t-il pas lancé le débat avant que le Ministre des Affaires
Étrangères le Dr. Arvind Boolell n’ait apposé sa signature sur de telles
conventions que les Mauriciens n’ont jamais acceptées au préalable ? De
quels débats démocratiques parle-t-on quand la balle est déjà partie et que la
légalisation de l’avortement, quoi que dans des cas spécifiques à travers des
provisions très mal rédigées, ne serait qu’une formalité à l’insu du peuple,
voire d’un référendum ? Maurice est aussi signataire des conventions pour
protéger les droits de l’enfant et des handicapés. Toute cette histoire que
chaque député devrait voter selon son âme et conscience ou dans le soi-disant
intérêt général ne serait qu’un écran de fumée. Peut-être que l’opposition
tenterait de mettre le gouvernement en minorité, mais elle aurait fait la même
chose si elle était au gouvernement. Le peuple est toujours victime des
manipulations des politiciens. L’incompétence et l’immaturité du gouvernement nous
sont révélées grâce au fait que ce dernier n’a pas crû bon de prendre en
considération le fait que la femme qui se fait avorter (illégalement) ne
devrait pas être pénalisée dans tous les cas de figure, mais que par contre la
loi devrait être beaucoup plus sévère contre les médecins qui pratiquent le ‘backstreet abortion’. Dans un sens, cette loi protègerait ces médecins.
En outre, en raison de considérations physiologiques et psychologiques, une
maman qui tue son bébé dans l’année de naissance est coupable d’infanticide en
non de meurtre. Au lieu de rationaliser la
loi d’adoption pour rendre l’adoption des bébés non-désirés et des orphelins
plus facile, le gouvernement a tendance de toujours mettre la charrue devant
les bœufs parce que cela les arrange.
Conclusion
Si nous ne les arrêtons pas maintenant, bientôt on verra la légalisation de
l’inceste, l’homosexualité, la pédophilie, la bisexualité et la transsexualité
avec les droits d’adoption. Mais,
l’agenda de mort est déjà connu d’un
nombre grandissant de personnes bien informées.
Les Francs-maçons parlent d’une réduction de la population de la planète
à environ un demi milliard seulement. (Réf. Les « Georgia Stone »). Les Nations Unies continuent à réduire la
population du monde d’indésirables à travers les guerres, les vaccins, des
programmes d’avortement et de stérilisation forcée, de sanctions, d’embargos et
de famine savamment orchestrée, etc. Donc,
c’est de l’histoire ancienne ! Que
les Mauriciennes et les Mauriciens se réveillent et ne se laissent pas
prendre au piège de la manipulation séculière, médiatique et étatique!
M Rafic Soormally
Londres
6 juin 2012
RAPE & MURDER - SHAME ON US ALL, SHAME ON MAURITIUS !
FIRST and foremost,
let me convey my condolences to the family of rape victim Sateewantee Jangtoo,
a fine hardworking lady, and let the family know that my thoughts and prayers
are with them in such very sad and most difficult times.
Me Yatin Varma (Minister of
Justice) Rape
victim Sateewantee Jangtoo Alleged rapist Jean-Maxwell Gopal
49 year old Sateewantee Jangtoo,
an onion field labourer, was attacked on her way to work on Friday 8th
June 2012 by 19 year old Jean-Maxwell Gopal, raped and killed. Jean-Maxwell
Gopal allegedly confessed to the crime. This brutal crime happened on the very
day the Mauritian Parliament was debating the provisions to legalise abortion
in specific cases, one of the case being to give the victim of rape the choice
to have the foetus or unborn baby aborted, however innocent the baby may be,
should the victim become pregnant. This law was « piloted » by none other than
Me Yatin Varma, Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Mauritius. He
even claimed to be « fier d’avoir piloté
ce projet de loi » (l’Express 2 June 2012).
The Mauritian government is obsessed with the
killing of foetuses and innocent unborn babies in specific cases in very badly
drafted legislation with loads of ambiguities, in which its Attorney General
Yatin Varma boasts of his « pride » in « piloting » such legislation, when it
should have tackled the numerous crimes committed by Mauritians both at home
and abroad, both on Mauritians and on foreigners, with the view to drastically
reducing, even, eliminating such crimes.
When Yatin Varma says he feels « PROUD » to
introduce (amongst other specific cases) legislation for women, victims of
rape, to have the choice to kill the innocent unborn baby, is he not making it
easier for men to rape in the knowledge that it will be easier for the women to
get rid of the unborn babies well before they are convicted of rape, if at all,
many years later, or if they are ever caught? Should not the government,
through appropriate laws, make it much more difficult for any man to even think
about raping any woman or child rather than feeling « proud » of legalising
abortion of the innocent after the rape has occured? What will Yatin Varma say
to the families of the victim Sateewantee Jangtoo in this rape case? Had she not been killed, it
would have been much easier, thanks to his « historic », « audacious » and «
courageous » legislation which he is so « proud » of, for her to decide if she
wanted to keep the unborn baby or not had she become pregnant as a result of
the odious crime? The logical question would therefore be whether Mauritians
are really proud to have such a Minister of Justice.
The same reasoning applies to the abortion of
the baby diagnosed of a handicap or malformation, which is discrimination
against the handicapped. Can’t anyone see that? How can one possibly be « PROUD
» of such legislation? Who does Yatin Varma think the para-Olympics are for?
Who has the right to decide whether or not an innocent unborn baby is killed or
not if it is not to save the mother’s life? It is indeed very « audacious » and
« courageous » to kill anyone, born or unborn!
The Mauritian government would have taken
credit if crimes were reduced. Government politicians would have produced all
sorts of statistics to show how their policies helped achieve low crime rate
and made a meal of it all round the country. Similarly, when crimes are on the
rise, especially such odious crimes, the government must bear responsibility
and take the blame accordingly. It cannot use the proposed legislation in
favour of abortion in cases of rape and other specific cases to deviate
attention from a very sick society. Those proposed badly drafted abortion laws
will never cure such a sick society except make it more permissive, given that Mauritius has been turned into a Pleasure Island.
M Rafic Soormally
London
11th June 2012
Increasing number of disabled Israeli children sue for not being aborted
ed note–I post this not in
the interests of starting a debate about abortion, but rather because
there are several items in this story underscoring the nature of what we
are up against.
First and foremost is the
mindset of a people who are so greedy for gain that they will actually
BRING SUIT for having NOT BEEN MURDERED in the womb. This in itself is
pure madness and is the same kind of mindset that would be so audacious
as to try and make a profit off of free air.
Next is the physiological
problems inherent in the Jewish community that contribute to
geo-political issues such as war, economic exploitation, etc. As the
article points out, birth defects within the Jewish community are
substantially higher per capita than they are in gentile societies, for
the simple reason that Jews represent a statistically small percentage
of the world’s population and then only marry and breed amongst
themselves. In effect then what we have is a system of inbreeding, or as
the article describes it, consanguineous reproduction.
And again, it begins with the
religion itself, which dictates that the Jews are a master race and a
‘holy, chosen people’ who must ‘dwell alone’ and not intermingle or
intermarry amongst non-Jews. The inherent eliteism and racism of this
mindset has produced a group of people who are not just mad by virtue of
the ideas that prevail in their religion/culture, but as well a
situation that is made worse by the physical/mental deficiencies
resulting from inbreeding.
lifesitenews.com
“Wrongful life” lawsuits, in
which doctors are held liable for not discovering fetal abnormalities
that might have prompted parents to abort their child, have become so
common in Israel that the government has set up a committee to
investigate the issue, New Scientist reports.
“I find it very difficult to
understand how parents can go on the witness stand and tell their
children ‘it would have been better for you not to have been born,” said
Professor Avraham Steinberg
According to the magazine,
wrongful life claims are more prevalent in Israel where a higher rate of
genetic disorders caused by consanguineous (connected by kinship)
marriages has fueled a “pro-genetic testing culture.” The county has
seen an estimated 600 wrongful cases since the first in 1987.
While similar lawsuits in the
United States and Canada are often brought by the parents of disabled
children, it is common in Israel for the children themselves to demand
compensation for the fact that they were not killed in-utero.
Asaf Posner, a medical
malpractice lawyer who sits on the government’s Matza committee which is
charged with investigating the issue, has obtained judgments averaging
around 4.5 million shekels (about $1 million U.S. Dollars) for clients
with spina bifida and cystic fibrosis.
Posner defends the lawsuits, arguing that the medical profession would “become corrupt” without criticism.
Rabbi Avraham Steinberg, a
medical ethicist at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in
Jerusalem, disagrees. Steinberg has criticized the lawsuits as
psychologically damaging.
“I find it very difficult to
understand how parents can go on the witness stand and tell their
children ‘it would have been better for you not to have been born,” said
Steinberg, who also sits on the Matza committee.
Steinberg claims that some
malpractice lawyers are travelling to small communities around the
country where inbreeding is more common in search of potential clients.
He also noted that the prevalence
of such lawsuits has caused doctors to overstate the likelihood that an
unborn child may have a disability, possibly driving an increase in the
number of abortions.
“More testing means more false
positives – and that means more abortions, because geneticists don’t
always know if results indicating the possibility of chromosomal
abnormalities are meaningful. I’d like to see a study of aborted fetuses
to see how many are diseased,” he said.
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