
La presse internationale s’indigne contre un hebdomadaire mauricien qui a choisi de publier des photos du cadavre de Michaela Harte sur les lieux du crime. Le représentant légal des proches de la victime envisage des poursuites contre ce journal. Une enquête a été ouverte par le Central CID.
Après des critiques contre la police et la justice mauricienne en Irlande, c’est au tour de la presse locale d’en prendre pour son grade. L’ensemble des journaux britanniques s’indigne de la publication de photos du cadavre de Michaela Harte dans l’hebdomadaire mauricien Sunday Times, ce dimanche 15 juillet 2012.
Cette publication à tirage restreint y a consacré la Une de cette édition et une page complète avec une douzaine de clichés pris par la section photographique de la police mauricienne peu après la découverte du crime à l’hôtel Legends le 10 janvier 2011.
Le fait que les clichés de la victime aient été rendus publics consterne davantage les Irlandais ainsi que les proches de Michaela Harte. Le titre de l’article qui accompagne ces photos est le suivant : « Qui a déchiré la jupe de Michaela Harte ? ». Sollicité par lexpress.mu quant aux raisons qui l’ont poussée à publier ces photos, la direction du journal affirme que c’est purement « dans l’intérêt public ».
Le journal indique que la population a le droit de savoir dans quelles conditions la victime a été découverte. Cet avis n’est pas du tout partagé par la presse britannique : « Franchement, la publication de ces images est immorale, cynique, scandaleuse et répugnante», fait ressortir le Belfast Telegraph ce lundi 16 juillet.
« Il est difficile d''''imaginer comment le journalisme puisse tomber aussi bas », poursuit le journal irlandais. Egalement, un porte-parole des familles Harte et McAreavey insiste à dire que  « the Mauritian authorities need now to match their words with actions and ensure that insensitive reporting by newspapers within their jurisdiction does not further exacerbate the violation of Michaela and the hurt to John.»
De SkyNews, en passant par la BBC et le Daily Telegraph, tous se disent consternés par la publication de telles photos. Le gouvernement irlandais n’a pas tardé à réagir. Il déclare avoir réclamé l’ouverture d’une enquête auprès du gouvernement mauricien.
Ce qui expliquerait pourquoi les Casernes Centrales ont demandé au Central CID l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire sur cette affaire. Me Dick Ng Sui Wa, le représentant légal des Harte et des McAreavey, envisage, lui, d’enclencher des actions légales, au civil, contre ce journal dirigé par Imran Hossenee.
Aux dernières nouvelles, un employé du Sunday Times est passé auprès des revendeurs des journaux dans l’après-midi de ce lundi 16 juillet 2012 pour récupérer toutes les copies invendues. Une perquisition a été effectuée dans les locaux du journal, à Plaine-Verte, dans le même intervalle.
Le directeur du Sunday Times, Imran Hossenee, devra donner sa version des faits dans les jours à venir. Ainsi qu’à expliquer la provenance de ces photos, propriétés de la police et qui avaient été versées au dossier à charge.
Commentaires
access
Couma sa journal la fine gagne access avec sa bane photos la.
meurtre de michaella
C' est honteux ce qu'a publier ce journal. Irrespectueux envers une personne decede et sa famille. Et quid des consequences pour les Mauriciens qui sont en Irlande. Est-ce qu'il a pens eux ce journal de bas tage?
DISGUSTING
I find it's absolutely disgusting for that newspaper to have published those pictures. When the case irks re-opened (because it simply has to) would this not be damaging to the investigation? Have people lost all sense of appropriateness? The poor lady was killed, regardless of who killed her, she was killed. Does the press have the right to publish pictures of her coarse without the approval of her family or the law? How did the press get the pictures, since I presume only police officers took pictures? This is adding to the anger of the already furious Irish community. They are reacting the way we would have if one of ours was being treated like this.
The whole case has just been handled so badly. I hope that who ever is guilty for this crime comes forward soon. This is getting out of hand. If anyone is hiding the true culprit they shod think of the right thing to do, think of the victim's family and grass the culprit. This is not a question of which nationality the person is from, it's a question of the right thing to do.
Shameful
"Public interest"Bullshit!!! Would the director of Sunday Times have approved publication of photos of his wife or daughter had been killed that way for "public interest"? Can he explain how this is public interest? Would you (yes you reading this comment) have accepted that for ur wife or daughter? . The deed has already been done but they need to be taught a lesson!
Newspaper
Listen guys!!!! Britain are mentioning that its a shame that newspaper have reported issues inappropriate. I agree with this statement. Lets not forget that Police killed a Brazilian buy by mistake thinking he was .......Also lets not forget that the News Of the World was hacking phones of deceased people to publish . don't let the british press overreact when they are themselves ....
@ Vishal
Have you by any chance seen those pictures you are talking about.? I don't think so.Some people are only making comments after reading newspapers.Where are those pictures.
Micheala Hart
Publishing photographs of the deceased!!!!, specially of a murder victim under very suspicious circumstances & whilst the killer(s) are walking free.
Despicable, deplorable, disrespectful, BUT who leaked the photographs!!!!! There should be an immediate high-level enquiry! Regrettably, the Tourism Industry will suffer.
Des photos de la depouille
Those who believe the two hotel employees arrested for the murder of Mrs Mcareavey are genuinely innocent are not being fair to the victims families because they've been acquitted by jury trial, but there are doubts about their innocence since the police bungled the case. The crime scene was contaminated by the hotel's personnel soon after the murder, the premises were not sealed, people were coming and going at leisure, if someone had committed the murder, he/she could have walked out. The police can be rightly depicted as amateurs of their profession. One would rather see two guilty individuals set free than an innocent be executed. The prosecution were sitting on eggshell while the defence lawyers were exploiting the incompetence and the dodgy accounts of the police investigators. The trial turned into a joke when loud cheering broke out in court, celebration took place in presence of the victim's family who had
to watch the defence lawyers carried on the shoulders of the assembled crowd allegedly shouting "mari avocat" that's how low Mauritius got. They who compare the published photographs of the crime scenes to those of the Iraqi leader seem to forget that the latter were of the execution of a dictator, not the murder of a honeymooner. The Mauritians, by their behaviour, showed two fingers to the Mcareavey families how insensitive to their grief!, since the "innocent" two have the gall to claim back their job at the hotel, do they also expect an apology from the victim's family?.
the harte affaire
those who believe the verdict of the jury is wrong are equally wrong. how can can the law condemn people who are completely innocent ... causing harm to their families? Whereas we all know that the real culprit is (...) It is up to the police to decide upon. trial by jury is the most democratic and judicial system to prove an accused guilty or innocent. and this was done beyond doubt. Why so many hanky pankies around the jury's decision?
Shame
Are they really innocent? or is it their lawyers who are really good? That is the question... AND one thing I know, from what the 1st guilty admitted initially, when he was supposedly badly treated by the police, if he was innocent he would have only said it was him and thats it. He would not have count in details what happened (one holding legs, other strangulating etc...) which actually did coincide with what doctors mentioned. Unfortunately afterwards there was not sufficient proofs to found the real culprits.
Furthermore what big hotels won`t do to save their image... Do they believe that since their ex-employees have been claimed innocent that their hotel is not at fault in this crime? Let us see if they re-employ the two 'innocents'. Go and find the amount of adverts on facebook and everywhere about super LUX hotels (ex-legends).
And those countries have the right to boycott Mauritius, I am a Mauritian and would have done same in their place. Who would want to encourage their families or friends to go to a destination which is as corrupted as being beautiful !!!...
harte murder
there is nothing disgusting or illegal in publishing the photos of the victim. the nation must know exactly what has happened in the present case....