Mauritius: 28 questions for prime minister on social unrest
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Defimedia
At the parliamentary session on 20 October, 28 oral questions are due to be put to Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, including about social unrest since 12 October. MPs are also seeking details about Elodie Thomas’s gunshot injury in Camp-Levieux, the investigation involving Sergeant Gowtamsing Taukoor and the arrests, Defimedia reports.
Twenty-eight oral questions are due to be put to Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam when parliament resumes on Tuesday 20 October. They concern, among other things, the social unrest that has occurred since 12 October and its causes, according to Defimedia.
Several MPs are seeking explanations about the 9 October incident in Camp-Levieux, in which Élodie Thomas was seriously injured by a bullet, and any possible link to the unrest. The questions also concern the handling of the incident, arrests and other sensitive cases, the outlet reports.
The parliamentary questions come after the announcement on 16 October that the curfew would remain in place and that 16 people had been arrested, followed by Sergeant Taukoor’s reappearance in court and the release on bail of three police officers, reported on 19 October in articles about the Élodie Thomas case.
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