C'est typiques des europens: faire des commentaires et fait des "soi.disant" des excuses aprs. C'est un t.d.c. Que fait les politiciens mauriciens?? Est-ce qu'ils ragiront ces insultes et trouver des excuses quand il s'agit des blancs???

Its a pity that the real culprits have not been caught and sentenced yet ..some of the mauritian nationals can already feel the change of attitude towars them as an outcome of the verdict..many questiions being asked to us here..as if we were the culprits..i thinks the investigation should keep going on until justice is made..

It is to the honour of the Irish P.M. that he has tempered his comments less than 12 hours after they were made, possiblyon impulse. The Mauritian authorities mus now make sure that the culprits, whoever they might, be brought to justice soon or an appeal against the acquittal be lodged

DO YOU KNOW THE PROVERB : ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY.....ponder upon that.

Well the trial has been a fair one & the two innocents lads have been released. Justice is done to them & their families after more than twelve harrowing months or so.
Although the real culprit have not been found in the court of law this does not mean that an injustice was done to John & the Harte family. It simply hows that the culprit was not in this courtroom or that there were no conclusive evidence to send those lads to the gallows. It's a fair trial in that sense.
Calling for the boycott of Mauritius of Mauritius as a destination out of spite & anger shows the petty mindedness of this Irish politician. Or it can also mean that he's only trying to get into the limelight by saying the most impulsive popular thing at the moment despite it being stupid down to the last word.
And I always had that notion that people in Europe were enlightened just like many of my compatriots here but it turns out that it's a rare commodity in Ireland apparently. The Irish press was totally partial & wanted a culprit at any cost even if the truth had to be denied. What a lack of class from them !

Ireland
Please do not jump to conclusion and I am convinced that the DPP would appeal and justice would be done as I, as a Mauritian, felt ambivalent about the verdict of the jurors. I wish I knew the background of the members of the jury,because from what I read in the press,I would come to the guilt of the two accused. May I en passant let you know that I visited Ireland in December 2005 and I met some of the Irish guys,who I could describe as gentlemen. Please do not judge Mauritians in general and I am convinced that you would find at the end Justice. To me the case is an open one and the result is still open.

I wish the husband of the murdered victim sue the Government for treating him as a vulgar criminal by cuffing him to the police station.For the Police he was the easiest prey,while the criminals were free.

I do not think tourism in Mauritius will suffer in the least if Ireland boycott Mauritius.Years ago many tourists have been killed in Northern Africa ,for a short while no European tourists were heading to these countries.Today,it is the opposite.Mauritius will continue to receive tourists from all over the world.

For your information, nobody had treated Mr.John Mcareavey as " a vulgar criminal..."He was being cuffed at the police station.This is a normal procedure in any crime suspects.And,remember that in nine out of ten caese, the close relative is the prime suspect.I think you do not read Washington Post, Uk newspapers and listen to radio news.Mr.Mcareavey was not taken as an easy prey by police.You say "....while the criminals were free " Do you know or have any idea who the criminals are.?
You should not feel ambivalent about the verdict of the jurors,These two people were and are innocent and were used as scapegoats by police.In fact,these two men were the easy prey to the police.I have visited Ireland much earlier than you.I was at Dublin Uni.May be you might be thinking that you are the only one knows Ireland.There are hundreds of Mauritians there. doing menial work and I have also met some Irish guys who do not treat well coloured people .I am not generalising,but it is a fact.I also have many irish friends,Some are really nice ,while others could be really nasty towards coloured people.
As far as the murder of Michaela goes,Mauritius will do every thing to get the culprits even if it will take years.No one can get the killers overnight.In many developed countries, rapists,murderers thefts are caught after a long time.could be after more than 15 long years.
There are many Mauritians living in the UK and Ireland are feeling ashamed of calling themselves Mauritians.I am a Mauritian brought up in the UK and I can assure you that I know both good and bad people here.
It is so disgusting that some people are not happy to see Avinash and Sandeep acquitted. They were and are and will always be innocent.aS SAID ABOVE ,THESE TWO MEN WERE SCAPEGOATS.

What percentage of Irish tourists represents in Mauritius ? May be a handful.Mauritius tourists will not be doomed as some expect. In fact other tourists from other parts will be visiting our paradise Island.

I hope next time when the Court will be sitting ,you will be called to sit either as a Juror or replace the presiding Judge Pritviraj Fecknah.Do you really think that you can overule the verdict.You are just being nasty and inhuman to the two suspects who have been released by the experienced Lawyers and all the nine Jurors.English people are proud to call themselves English.french as French but some people like you are ashamed to call yourselves Mauritians and thats the reason why some Mauritians have left Mauritius to seek job and money overseas.People like you are unpatriotic.I am a Mauritian too and will never let my people down as so many are doing.Yet,these same Mauritians ( who are ashamed to call themselves Mauritians ) want to spend their holidays in Mauritius "...mo parent labas.mo pe alle rane zor enne visite....and when you come to Mauritius what you eat, boyon mouroung and poisson sal ,gazak dalpuri -....." you all dream about Mauritius.Who can say that in the UK,or ratrher in a white people country,Mauritians are treated equally ? On your face ,people smile and behind your back they hold a dagger.Trust the white and enslave yourselves.
I am a mauritian and live in the Uk and give no damn to people like you or whoever says "....I am ashamed to call myself a Mauritian...."They are hypocrits.They forhave forgotten that their umbilical cords were buried in the soil of Mauritius.I am talking about those Mauritiansd who were born in Mauritius.

I am suire majoritty of mauritians living and earning their livelihood in Europe are not treated equally.Be they doctors,nurses, bus drivers, post office workersengineers and so on. At the end of the day,Mauritiuans are labelled as "Pakis.."" the Blacks, they have so many nicknames.Some Mauritian guys who have Hindu names are called ," John,Robert, David, jack, Tom and what not." Why the whites are not called " Abimanu, Rajesh, Harrydev....."
Many Mauritian people have developed inferiorty complexes in a white country.So,before talking about ill about Mauritius ask yourself who you are .
As I have already said,I am proud to be a Mauritian although I am living and studying here in London.

The Prime Minister is not happy with the verdict delivered on 12th Juiy 2012. Would he be happy if these innocent men were found Guilty of murder ?.Yes,he would.
The murder case was handled by experienced lawyers.
I would like to ask only one question: Why the Royal Family ( Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth did not visit Ireland for so many years.?

I would like to ask a few questions:
a)What the IRA did to Brighton ?
b) Why ex Prime minister the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher was targetted ?
c)Who killed Lord Mountbatten on the Irish Sea ?
d) Why did the late Princess Margarette called the Irish, "Irish Pigs " ?
e) What is the actual economic situation of Ireland.
f) Why there are two Irelands ?
g) Why the two Irelands are not united as East and West Germany to form one Germany?

I am 100 % sure that your wish will never be fulfilled.Do not underestimate the Government of Mauritius.
Have you forgotten that Mauritius was ruled by the French,then by the English and today it is a Republic Of Mauritius.You think dummies are sitting in the Parliament /Ministerial cabinet ?
Can you,I mean you yourself ,sue the Government of Mauritius.
Wait when the true murderer is brought to justice.I ,like many others would like to know what will happen to the true murderer.Just hold on your breath.
Why don't you try to help Mauritius Police force to trace the murderer.
Suppose the murderer is NOT A MAURITIAN ,then what have you to say .?It is only a question.

You want to know the background of the jurors ? ya. Do you expect the jurors to be Lawyers,businessmen, doctors......?Do you think that jurors are selected by Prime Minister,The President, Head of the Police Force.....?
Once I had the opportunity to attend a muder case in London ( we were six students from the same Uni), one of the jurors was my next door neighbour.Do you know who she is? At that time I could not believe my eyes.I asked my Law lecturer "How jury members are selected ?" His reply was,".....at random...."and people who have no criminal records etc etc."
When I told him my neighbour is an auxilliary nurse working in a hospital and she was sitting as a "
member of the Jury in the Court. " Any layman can sit as a jury member so far has a clean record ...."
Abimanu what is your reaction to this ?

Henry mo daccord ek ou lopinion concernan ou
pay et en tan mauricien.
Nou bizin pa senti nou inferiere dan Europe.
Mais celui ki fin commetre sa crime la, bizin puni.

Joe ,Mauritius will remain a Paradise Island in the Indian Ocean .At this very moment many Mauritians feel the verdict has let them down ,specially those living in the UK and Ireland.We should walk with our heads up.It is not the Nation who has killed Michaela....May her soul rest in peace. Why we should feel guilty about it.Her relatives have our sympathy and condolences.Mauritius is not the only tourists place where a murder has been committed..Not long ago,tourists were killed in Spain,in North Africa,South Africa....to refresh; Annie Dewani went to South Africa with her husband for their honeymoon.The car in which they were travelling was "hijacked and the newly wed Annie was shot dead. Killed on the spot.My question is :Do the South Africans feel about this murder.At a fast tract trial two have been arrested.
How come that Mauritians are feeling so bad ? The worst is that some of the Mauritians are gloating about the not guilty verdict.
What will happen when the murderer turns out to be a non-Mauritian and a white .It is only a question.What will be the reaction then ?

Avinash and Sandeep were innocent ,have been found not guilty by the Jurors, and will always be NOT GUILTY.They have not committed this malicious and wild crime.Both Mauritius and Ireland should work hand in hand to get the true murderer.Leave these two innocent people alone.They and their entire families have suffered enough.There is not one soul who is expressing any sorrows on the miscarriage of Reshma 's three months pregnancy.She lost her baby,her first baby ,due to the detention of Avinash.
It seems to me that people are reading only about these two innocent men,the poor victim and her relatives.How about Reshma's pain ?
There is no one,I say no one can blame these two men.THEY WERE INNOCENT,ARE INNOCENT AND WILL BE DECLARED INNOCENT.

Good point.Mauritius should ask Irish detectives ( of course at their own cost) to investigate the heinous murder of Michaela Harte.Ireland seems to have great and powerful lawyers and police officers.They should come to Mauritius and help the country to find out the true murderer.British detectives went to Portugal to investigate the disappearance of the poor little Madeleine McCaine. Irish Government should ask Mauritius Government to work jointly to trace the true murderer and bring forward this murderer to justice.
I am sure the whole world knows that Avinash and Sandeep are innocent in this crime.Justice has been done.

Ta Henri, 1-2 commentaires ti pou assez pou pass to lopinion... Arrete crache to frustration communal dans sa forum la

I agree (and that's my personal opinion by the way) We can't blame the defence lawyers for doing what they were paid for. They did EXACTLY what any defence attorney should do, that is, defend their client(s) and use anything and everything they can find to sink the prosecution case against their clients. The prosecution, this time around, could not produce any direct evidence against these two, now acquitted individuals. We can throw a tantrum and have a fit and scream: injustice! But no matter how many fits we have, the jury considered all evidence that were presented in court, deliberated and unanimously came back with a Not Guilty verdict. Some people might be asking, WHY? Well, what about that there was no evidence to link this two individual to that horrible crime??

The police and the prosecution (office of the DPP) should learn a lot from this case. Do NOT go ahead and try to prosecute a case with half-cooked evidence and hope for the best! That might have worked in their favour in the past, this time around it justifiably didn't!

We should all remember that our legal system guarantees that anyone charged with any crime is INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN THE COURTS!

Yes, we have a lot to learn in regards to decorum in the courts, but that burden rests on the presiding judge/magistrate. He/she should have warned the audience that he/she would not allowed his/her courtroom to be transformed into a circus upon the reading of the verdict! But we can't blame the two defendants for the audience's action, nor can we use these jubilations after the verdict was read as the norm!

The other country/countries that has/have been accusing Mauritius and all Mauritians of all sort of bad things, should look at themselves closely in the mirror and see if they can teach anyone else or any country how to behave! History have shown us they can't!

maurice mari plaisir mem xld.,, vini touriste ici conquin,touyer., violer,et pe augment tou sa bane vagabon la sans faire zot puni ,mari plaisir mem ici mr xld .,pou bizin change ou slogan pou bizin met maurice c du pouri ,40 alibaba avec 1 voleur .faire moi vine president avec pouvoir mo mem mo pou arete tou criminel ki faire pou bizin donne sa navin ,

@ Henri, do you realise how insensitive are your comments to the victim's families?
I wonder whether your mouth and your (...) have swaped places? What have you a vacuum or some brown stuff your ears? Enough said for your IQ.

Reste a confirmer:J'ai appris que Michaela est la deuxieime epouse de John est que la premiere avait disparu mysteriuesement et n'a jamais ete retrouvee.Si c'est le cas,ca donne matieres a reflection + les preuves scientifiques qui se convergent dans la meme direction.Pourquoi ne pas faire appel a Scotland Yard,qui trouvera facilement le/les meurtriers de la pauvre Micahaela.

Sean Kelly, do you think Irish people have enough money to go on holiday in Mauritius. No money no lafaya

Yes rajen you are right to ask where is Mr.John McAreavey's first wife.NO one knows hwether she is alive or dead.I hope she is alive and well.Has any Irish asked ahout this first wife.Irish people are blaming the Lawyers who have defended the two suspects,and they have every reason to defend this case.
Before criticising Mauritius and writing bad about Mauritian people the Irish should now look for his first wife.Justice should be done for her as well.

Hi Henri
I notice you made an extra long comment to mine and I wish to clarify a misunderstanding. When I said that I wish I knew the identities ,It was to nullify the remarks of the Irish that they thought the jurors would represent the Mauritian Arc-en ciel. I wish to draw your attention that there was no evidence to link the husband as a suspect,which you claimed was the normal procedure. It was not in the present case! For your information,I have never been a member of the jury. I based my comment on the confession of one of the accused when the police recorded his defence in presence of his counsel,which could not be disputed ultimately.at the trial.Had the statement been recorded in the absence of counsel,I would be the first to side with the accused that the confession might have been under duress..I have been following the proceedings through the internet. I am a mauritian and who gave you the information that I was ashamed to be a Mauritian.. Unfortunately you do not know me .

I imagine that one should , in commenting, show some restraint,which does not appear to be the case with you.I notice that one made a nasty comment about you above. How dare you say that I could replace the judge; I am commenting on something ,when I find it unreasonable and it is shameful for a Mauritian to call others unpatriotic,especially when you were dreaming to be a Mauritian as if others were born in outer space.What you stated that the accused will always be innocent,I would tell you that the verdict to you was final, but to me,there is a procedure in your country called APPEAL. it is then that the guilt or the innocence of the accused be determined.

I'm changing my mind about visiting Mauritius now, i fully support Sean Kelly's argument about all tourists should think twice about going there , the Mauritian authority should be working harder to get those responsible to be brought to justice. otherwise i urge tourists to take their holidays elsewhere.

Another public figure seeking to become more popular by using the emotions of the Irish people to gain more popularity among them.

He doesn't care about the impact that this may have on the tourist sector and the thousands of lives that depend on that in Mauritius.

High ranking officials should be diplomatic and think well what statements they are issuing even on their facebook page.

I wonder if that would have happened in the US, would he have the guts to say the same thing??

Well we live in a society where people are full of (...)and indeed these men who committed this crime are 'bastards', they don't deserve to live. Justice has certainly not been done (...)
In general Mauritian people come across as nice,helpful,polite and well-spoken to foreign visitors.......what they don't know is that there is a dark and nasty side to Mauritians.

I think it's an excellent idea from the Irish government to boycott Mauritius.

I agree that there could have been some shortcomings on the way investigation was made. But this does not mean that we should boycott the country. This murder could have happened to anyone anywhere around the globe. We cannot say there is a safe place in the world.

So much noise about this case and the verdict.It is becoming "rassi".Can't we write on something more in teresting.?
I have been reading comments by so many Muritians and foreigners that I am seeing at it as "banal".P enna aucun jus ladans mo banne camarades.Change topik la do.

Mauritius is a very nice holiday place to visit. It does not mean that because of that murder people have to change their mind not to go there. There are bad people everywhere in the world though. The Irish people are giving the whole world a bad impression about the mauritian people. Yeah we all want to know who was the killer??? But please dont judge the whole population.