Thats Very British !

What have the government and the Mauritian Embassy done about that case. Did the family get any support or counselling from the embassy.

Of course not because it is a Mauritian everyone tend to forget these. Even when the tragic accident at St Julien. No real support for the mauritian family. All the talks were for the foreign workers.

This is similar as well. The govt seemed to forget that they are elected to represent the people of all race and religions.

When they are in power they forget the people who put them there?

If is was the other way round in the UK. a Mauritian causing that assault and behaviour. This would have been all over the press.

Did the UK Pm called the family to apologise as did our prime minister to the irish family? Mauritian pou toujours prier Blanc bec- this is a fact and we will always be treated as a paki in UK- Ask the PM- he has been through this and yet we see some people chasing white people as modern slave- Or those who were ashamed to called themselves Mauritian- Put your face in a hole if you still have some "Lamour propre"

Ala ki arive kan ou dan pay etranger nou dispoze travay a maurice comm a lexterieur pou nou reussi mai nou bloke partou. A letranger nou bizin pay plis pou plizir kitsoz (education, sante, billet, etc) ek en plis de sa, nou victime violens racist ek dernier enn list pou gagn travay malgre nou competens. Patron etranzer la bizin prouve ki li pa finn gagn enn local pendan enn long period pou li kapav employ nou. Par contre a Maurice, gagn limpression ki etranger pli protez ki mauricien!!!! Zis get enn cout bann expatri kot nou la avek competens comparab a bann mauricien, zot ena privilez gagn la paye pli elev ek jouir bann lezot facilit ki mauricien pa gagner. Nou ena enn PM ki donn limpressyon ki li mem garant sa situation la li mem ki habituer al dehors pou gagn consey (lordre?), expertise, etc! Eski li ena nationalit etrang? Li paret pa preokup par sort nou bann compatriot a letranzer.

Nous pa tande narien de la part de nos banne compatriotes expatris lors ca cas. Normalement, d'apres zot, banne actes de barbarie coumsa c'est seulement a maurice ki nous trouve ca.

Time for mauritians to develop their own high standard in different fields (education, health, law, etc) and stop depending on the british for everything. We can exist without them but they will have difficulty existing without others. The only barrier to this is the british educated gentlemen sitting in the parliament who appear to be convinced that without kowtowing the british help we cannot breathe. By the way, the world has evolved, we have so many friendly developed countries (china, india, south africa, malaysia, russia, etc).

The saxons should learn that the lands (england, us, canada, australia, new zealand, south africa, etc) on which they live is not that of their ancestors. Their mentality of untolerable owners should melt. Their (angles & saxons) ancestral land is somewhere in germany. If they do so on that land, there can be some sense. The world has been tolerating too much.

INACCPETABLE, DEGUEULASSE, REVOLTANT, INTOLERABLE!!!! Je sens mon sang bouillir et desirant faire justice moi meme (un mauricien inconnu de ce cas). Je me demande pourquoi cette affaire parait si tard sur le journal???? Que faisais/font nos authorites? Et c'est ce pays la que nos 'gran missie' (surtout nos hommes delois) ont l'habitude de citer comme example.

This has to be followed up and these girls have to be punished for their deeds!
The Race Relations Act 1976 and all of its amendments and extensions protect individuals from being discriminated against in employment on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, religious beliefs or ethnicity

Well there we go! When Brtis come to Mauritius and are subject of some form of abuse or crime, it NEVERgoes unseen. The Britsh press fire at Mauritius and see us as a third world country, the Brits see us as savages.
In the many places in the UK, Mauritians are subject to discrimination, and it being racial is disgusting." WE ARE NOT PAKIS! AND NEVER WILL! " We should really outline this case and make headline it, it is unacceptable a family paying taxes in the UK undergoes such treatment.

Mo fine vive 3 ans en Anglterre et li bien vrai qui anglais ene race bien raciste...Lire journal kan zot crire lors ene dimoune noir : Zot dire a black..........pou banne la black pas besoin exist, nou Maurice li ene paradis mais certainement pas Anglterre cote beaucoup mauricien p alle rode zot du pain. Nou pas pou capave change nou couleur ni banne anglais so mentalit, plutot rest dans Maurice in peace. Ena beaucoup mauricien fine faner aussi au niveau benefits zot abuser, dimoune dcouvert sa.

li bon lesson pu ban mauriciens ki 2nd grade citizens dehor. qan zot vine maurice, zot declare zot bel paquet mais se ki zot ramasse dehor zot pa dir...

While this incident remains an allegation so far, while we need to be cautious and not generalise, this incident reminds us of the bad press Mauritius has had recently. There are good and bad people everywhere including Mauritius and UK. There are thieves, rapists, killers in Mauritius. There are thieves, rapists, killers and racists in the UK. Mauritian people are very often taken for Asian people or African people. It's not an insult to look like Pakistani or Srilankan people or African people, it reveals our origins which we should be proud of. However it is an insult to be beaten up because of that. Maybe this is one of the failures of multiculturalism. Racism.

No! No! No! It is not at all like this in England as some of you there in Mauritius are making it sound to be; as if every English man is racist and everywhere you go you will smell racism. I say this with my experience and credibility of having lived in England for thirty-eight years. This was just a rare and isolated incident and certainly it will not be the last one that we will ever hear, unfortunately. We have every right to deplore the incident but there is no need of having a knee-jerk reaction to it and to paint everyone with the the same brush. My sympathy goes to the victimes, both mother and baby and I wish the baby well.

Most of the comments are a visceral response when injustice happen.Some people has got issues with the UK but I can tell you there is more racism in Mauritius.Of course you get angry when something like this happen to our own people.You can go nearly every place in the uk feeling same but it not the same in Mauritius.There are so many nogo areas.I do not 'run down' because of these observation.Racism is very subtle in Mauritius and people are verbally abused in Mauritius rather than being attacked.

tips of iceberg, the situations have aggravated for foreigners with the economic crisis

I hope that the Mauritius Embassy based in London will support that Mauritian family(finance-wise) to fight and appeal for her case to condemn those two Brits ! !!!

On ne nat pas raciste, on le devient !

Of course that Mauritians who live here and in other countries are appalled by the behaviour of the two adolescents. Unfortunately, this is only the start. As the economy suffers, life becomes more expensive, and jobs disappear I am afraid to say that we will be visible targets as people vent their frustrations on foreigners. However, after saying all this, to throw a baby in the path of a coming bus is just evil. What are these two going to end up doing? I shudder to think.

This sounds like what the Nazis loved to do. It doesn't bode well for Cameron's Big Society. We will remember.

Si nou ki fer sa ek tourist anglais ki le monde pou dire. dan boucoup anglais ena sa tibout raciste ki exister. zotte pa montrer li ouvertment mais zotte ena li dan zotte. mone vivre la ba pou 10 ans mo conner ki mo p causer. ene race mari hypocrite-ki rier dan ou figure ek enterre ou dan ou le dos. sa cas la paraitre ene cas bullying depi lecole ki pa manquer ici- surtout a cause ou couleur ek ou culture. vivre nou moris

This is reality in england. A country called Great.... is now turning into one where most people are racist, live on benefits and show an amazing attitude towards non brits. But it was fine when years ago british imperialism was taking over africa india mauritius. that old mentality and attitude still is well embeded in brits as they always look down upon developing countries!

Si ces faits sont vrais, les deux adolescentes mritent d'tre punies, mais l'express ne publie que la version de la mre mauricienne. On ne sait pas ce que les tmoins ont vu. On ne sait pas non plus quelle est l'origine des adolescentes et quelle est leur version. Pourtant, les commentateurs ont dj prononc leur jugement : tous les Anglais sont coupables et tous les Anglais sont racistes. D'aprs ce qu'on peut lire dans la presse locale, il y a eu ces derniers temps Maurice des meurtres terribles sur des enfants. Des adolescents sont alls jusqu' ouvrir le ventre de leur victime, une femme enceinte de 8 mois. Un type a viol une petite fille puis l'a supprime en la brlant vive pour qu'elle ne puisse le dnoncer. Rappelons-nous aussi avec quelle sauvagerie a t assasin le riche Pakistanais Mujeeb Mir par ses voleurs. L'ayant tortur et frapp mort, ses bourreaux ont fait passer leur voiture sur son corps trois reprises, en marche avant et en marche arrire. Ce n'tait pas des Anglais, mais des Mauriciens ordinaires, dont l'un tait mme le vigile charg de la protection de la rsidence de M.Mir. On pourrait encore citer des quantits de crimes horribles Maurice, mais cela ne permet personne d'affirmer que tous les Mauriciens sont des sauvages et des criminels. Alors, est-ce correct de gnraliser lorsqu'une affaire lamentable a lieu en Angleterre?

Facile encolre avec banne Anglais , mais mauricien ki nourri la haine contre banne les zotte mauricien ki pa meme kominot ca pli pire. Banne politicien ki dire ki seulement UN kominot ki kapave vinne premier ministre.Maricien ki vote chacun so kominot, meme si li un voler ena manifestation pa touche nou !!!!??? la guerre koninal 1968 ,1999 "kaya" banne racistes pa bizin rode loin ici mem ena trop.

I agree that these bitches were wrong and should be punished, but lets not forget that presently in Mauritius nearly everyday one can read in the papers about some people,raping, molesting and killing others including babies being murdered. In this cruel world always some people will do good turn while others will think only about hurting others.Sadly this happened, but we should not blame all the English people. The young hooligans are killing their own families and friends. Dont forget many mauritians have been here for years ,some married to english girls as well as english man married to mauritian girls. Mostly they have have problem unlike in France. In England we were able to get jobs in hospitals and government. In France you could only do so if you had French Nationality.Who brougt slavery to Mauritius?

Two wrongs do not make a right, the murder of Michaella Harte and the assault on this Mauritian Woman and her family are both wrong irrespective where this takes place. Those two assailants should be penalised and I am in no doubt that justice will be carried out in both countries.

Sorry but I wont say the English r bad as i had a good life in England n have all my colleages there.Of course i fell sorry for the family as i know them but at the same time justice will be done.Those 2 girls will be unpopular in society n in their schools. they will be watched. Please God help the family to start life again. Take carexxxxxx

Ala ban anti patriotik la. En Janvier, I am ashamed to be Mauritian coz ti touye 1 tourist dan lotel. Zordi not all English are bad? Ena p mem dir morisien racist tou. Si zot envi guet racism ale L'Europe..

Dear all,
just to inform you that the two girls have been found guilty. "Two schoolgirls have been found guilty of a racial attack on a family which left a seven-month-old baby lying in the path of a bus.

The girls, aged 14 and 15, were found guilty of racially harrassing and assaulting a young girl and her mother.

The 14-year-old girl was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm on the baby after magistrates decided her actions led to him falling into the road in London, West Croydon."
It is also worth mentioning that this incident happened on the 27th of July 2010. The court case had been on going and there latest hearing was on the 16th of February 2011.
I had posted a previous entry on this which did not get published. Let's see if this one does.
The whole point is, as some wise people here have already pointed out, we should not have a knee jerk reaction to one incident and start generalising. The harm of such actions could be as bad as the racist act itself. I do challenge the editors of L'express to publish my comments as I unfortunately hold them partly accountable through sensationalism.
There are bad eggs in all societies of the world, including united kingdom and mauritius.

VOH bizin faire ene landing la-bas, banes la p faire pakis bashing!!!

Hi, me i would like to know where are the laws. are laws just for one kind of people.
Take for example, the case of michaela, it was announced in international news, and the reputation of mauritius got really bad.
And regarding this case, where a small baby was i say tortured, no news about it, no propagan??? WHY??....I hope justice is made and the two british girls be severly punished by law. I pray for the mauritian family and ask them to follow the case closely and justice be done.

Shameful and shocking for those girls attacking another little girl and a baby.

Mauritius Embassy based in London will DO nothing ,either help this Mauritian family or ask the UK government to protect this traumatised family.
Susan says,"Sorry but I wont say the English r bad as i had a good life in England n have all my colleages there.How long ago Susan was in England.This is the question.Twenty years ago I found England the best place in Europe to live and work.Now this country is breeding criminals .Last year European statistics show that England is the 27th lowest country to live.Many English people are living the UK to live wnd work elsewhere,like Canada,Australia and New Zealand.
I was proud to live in London years ago,but I am happy where I am now.English people are traitors,again NOT ALL OF THEM.
At North London University I had a friend who was a senior lecturer ....was teaching Economics and sociology.Students were addressing him as "the Paki" even though they knew his name.a very simple name that a child of 2 can pronounce this name.And Susan,you are saying that " I wont say the English r bad ...."
England has changed so much nowadays.You were very lucky that you have had a very cheerful and praiseworthy life in England,and lucky not to meet any bad English person .

This is true that in England Mauritians are getting jobs in hospital and government,where as in France,there is not the same opportunity.Who brought slaves'Both English and French.Majority of the slaves were brought in Mauritius by English people.There is only a handful of Mauritians doing a white collar job in the Uk,Mauritians are doing jobs that white English people won't do,like bus drivers,hotel attendants,just to mention these jobs.I agree that slavery is better than freedom without bread,at least Mauritians living in the Uk are earning their daily bread and am glad that no Mauritians are starving in the UK.They have got shelters and enough to live on.
What we are talking here is about the family who has been molested by two English girls.We should focus on this incident.Whether English are good or bad,some of them are really bad.And they treat the coloured people,including Mauritians as,"Pakis,negroes,the blacks etc etc....."In Mauritius we do not treat people as such although there is racial dicrimination in our Island.
We Mauritians should not accept such treatment by English people.Mauritians are living and working,paying taxes and have their national insuranse.Why are they not being treated equally.This is the question.We can write as much as we can here,but no UK politicians will take note of our comments,BECAUSE THEY HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO.They are not going to spend their time in such minor cases.I say minor cases,because I have not read any comments written by English people in Uk papers about this senseless attack.
In England there are more than 5023 young girls attacking any body and anywhere once they have binge-drink. Society cannot do much about this,Some papers say these girls are from broken families,or bad comany and so on.
Let us hope that mauritius Embassy and UK social organisation do something to help families in such situation in the Uk and elsewhere.

Bonjour a tous, je suis une mauricienne qui vie en France et je peux juste dire une chose, des racistes il y en a partout et aussi a Maurice, Tout le monde peut etre agresser alors je trouve sa stupide de generaliser les Anglais !!!! Et cet article franchement ne nous donnent pas grand chose comme renseignement, on a la version que de la MAURICIENNE ! C'est malheureux que des gens reagissent de cette maniere c'est meme inadmissible ! Mais voila c'est la vie de tout les jours ca et sa peut arriver a n'importe qui meme a vous qui avez lu cette article voir meme a moi !!!

i agree that whatever happened was bad but i should also say that mauritian also are not angels. i have been living in uk since 15 years and sometimes i am ashamed. here, mauritian are part of drug dealing, prostitution and corruption. moreover, racist is everywhere. if you cannot tolerate it, better stay in mauritius. grow up people.

Je trouve aussi que c'est trs injuste de cataloguer les Britanniques comme des racistes, sur la base d'un incident dont on ne connat qu'une version. Leur pays compte un trs grand nombre d'immigrs parfaitement assimils dont beaucoup de Mauriciens qui ont trouv une seconde patrie et de quoi y vivre dignement. Je pense que ceux qui insultent les Britanniques dans leurs commentaires sont des jaloux qui n'ont pas pu s'adapter en Grande-Bretagne ou qui n'ont pas russi obtenir une autorisation d'entre. Des rfugis en trs grand nombre viennent constamment se mettre en scurit en Grande-Bretagne, alors que Maurice refuse d'en accueillir. On a entendu parler ces jours derniers de politiciens et islamistes tunisiens qui, contraints de fuir le rgime de Ben Ali, ont t accueillis avec bienveillance pendant des annes en Grande-Bretagne et peuvent maintenant retourner chez eux sains et saufs.

I completely disagree with watever these poeple have said that there is racism everywhere and we need to grow up........
This question goes to the whole humanity???
Are we going to accept this, if this had happened to our family???

My family may be as bad as it can but it hurts deeply when other people hurt them.

Who are we to judge these mauritians, who are we to say that they sud be treated like this. British people are not doing them a favour by letting them living in their country as these people are working nite and days like slaves to earn their living.

Nobody has the right to mistreat anyone like this.

Very sad to read that a 7 months old baby has been victim of such a nasty incident but some people just can't stop themselves by giving their opinions,if that happen to themselves then they would expect world to be under their feet,imagine if that young gril was your sister or the baby boy related to any of you????

Very shameful and disgusting what has happened to this family but it can happen to anyone of us everywhere at any time. Thank's God the racist generation is shrinking just like the Neo-Nazis in Germany who are even less than the population of immigrants. They have no more their national pride and try to get rid of their frustration by attacking defendless people. They are cowards and hide themselves of fear to be treated as a bucket of shit. We cannot blame a whole nation for a handful of brainless, no-future fanatics whose ideology is long in the graveyard. Long live human rights.

mo bien sagrin ce qui fine arrive a sa mme la ek so zenfants.
mo meme mon reste dans uk pendant 16 banane.mon trime ek mo fine fere ene position.mo bizin dire ki ena anglais bien zentille ek supportive.ena ki bien movais ek raciste.bann ce ki raciste ce bann ignorants ek bann zaloux.ena anglais contentt quant etrangers reussi dans la vie me ena ki bien gros poumons.zot paresse, pa le travay, me quand etrangers travey 2-3 jobs pou arriver dans la vie, zot pas content.mo meme mo pas pou retourn zamais vivre en angleterr meme si mo vine millionare en dollars.cotte mo ete di moune plis gentille
mo esperer ki ca 2 dimounes la alle condamner pou en peu le temps ek zot passe ene movais 1/4 dheure dans prizon.

In mauritius no poor mauritian can afford to go in any big hotel free whereas in uk black paki mauritian have free access. Only one section in mts can do

couma rajiv ek sachita qui vive dehor pe dir ki racist attacks can happen anywhere, that's right, but you both shouldn't forget that one's native country remains your native country. couma zot inn preciser: mauricien aussi raciste, li normal ki mauricien aussi pou raciste enver bann etrangers.

Sachita says, "... alors je trouve a stupide de generaliser les Anglais !!!! " and "...cette maniere c'est meme inadmissible .."
How can you say "stupide and inadmissible"?Your points are most stupid and inadmissible,You have stated that LA MAURICIENNE.What do you really know what has happened at West Croydon.You were not an eye witness.so you stop generalising this situation.Somewhere some people including me say that "...Not all English people are bad..."May be you have missed this point.-When you make a comment please give your point of view about what we have been talking about.It looks like you are the one who is generalising the whole situation.
This kind of monstrous attack should not happen to any body " sa peut arriver a n'importe qui meme a vous qui avez lu cet article voir meme a moi !!!"
Why this should ahppen.Is there no way to stop such a brutal attack.or you just want to say,well it's ok this is life and this can happen to anybody even to me.What most commentators are trying to say that this should not happen.This is not "...c'est la vie de tout les jours ca ..".We live in a civilised country and why this should happen either to me or you.?

Please read this:

Perceived Racism and Discrimination in Children and Youths: An Exploratory Study
By Lee M.Pacther

It's just funny to see how Mauritians get so emotional when incidents like this happen. Just look at the number of postings each time you get such incidents. It's funny but all of a sudden, Mauritians pretend that we are so not racist...get over it...the incident is disgusting but let's not pretend we're better!

Rajiv tone ekrir, "Mauritian are part of drug dealing, prostitution and corruption. moreover, racist is everywhere. if you cannot tolerate it, better stay in mauritius. grow up". Eski sa mama la ti p fer drug dealing? Eski so tifi ti pe fer prostitution? Eski so ti baba ti pe fer coription? 15 ans dans Angleterre! Baya pou reste baya mem sa!!!

There are justice for the rich and famous, and justice for the poor and simple,unknown outside their family circle.
However,these days because of mass media,justice is done more or less fairly.
In England it costs the government and local council too much to keep a prisoner.So,a light sentence is given.Recently a psychiatric patient ( who had killed someone) was released from prison and the following day he attacked another innocent person.
Soon,prisoners will have the right to vote....freedom.Where justice is going.I wonder.

Concernant le racisme, je pense que ce sont encore les Mauriciens qui sont le plus atteints par cette maladie. Il est frquent d'entendre dans une conversation des expressions comme Sa malbar la, Sa laskar la, Sa bann mazanbic la pour dsigner des connaissances ou des voisins. Rcemment dans l'express, une tribune dnonait le racisme anti-Noirs et citait des qualificatifs comme seve crepi, senti pi, etc. Des politiciens n'hsitent pas traiter de rat blanc l'un des rares parlementaires d'origine europenne. C'est d'autant plus grave que les personnes vises sont des Mauriciens comme les autres, dont les anctres taient dj Maurice bien avant 1750 pour les uns et avant 1850 pour les autres.Tout dernirement, l'vque anglican de Maurice faisait un vibrant appel dans les mdias pour qu'une loi anti-racisme entre en vigueur Maurice. On pourrait en dire long aussi sur la faon dont les Mauriciens se comportent envers les ouvriers et ouvrires du Bangladesh, de l'Inde ou de Chine, travaillant sur nos chantiers ou dans les usines dans des conditions de quasi esclavagisme.

Asiana - you are right. Nobody has the right to treat other people in the way those girls did. Which is why the case went to court and the girls have been found guilty. What else do you want?