🇲🇺 The officer who shot Elodie Thomas was promoted twice after a 2007 morals case

The officer who shot Elodie Thomas was promoted twice after a 2007 morals case

Sergeant Gautam Singh Taukoor, 57, climbed through two automatic promotions after a 2007 morals case, and it is his service weapon that gravely wounded Elodie Thomas, 27, at Camp-Levieux on 9 October. The Independent Police Complaints Commission, the watchdog that scrutinises the force, has now widened its inquiry far beyond that single shot.

Its officers want to know whether four units, the Camp-Levieux post, the Special Mobile Force, the Divisional Supporting Unit and the Emergency Response Service, failed in their duty to help a person in danger. Several police vehicles reportedly drove off after the detonation. Investigators are combing Safe City camera footage, the station's Diary and Log books and its COTS computer records to trace who moved where, and when.

The shot is one question. The night around it is another. What those cameras caught in the missing minutes may count for as much as the trigger.

Health ministry drops its cheaper diabetes supplier for a pricier bid

Rs 35.7 million is the value of a contract to supply glucose meters and test strips to public hospitals, and the Ministry of Health has handed it to Advanced Healthcare Ltd and its VivaChek devices, pushing aside Pharmacie Nouvelle Limited, the hospitals' usual Accu-Chek supplier.

Yet PNL's box of 50 strips came in at Rs 184.45 against Rs 195.99, Rs 11.54 cheaper. Ministry cites technical shortcomings in PNL's bid. Across 168,014 boxes, that gap is the question the paperwork now has to answer, and the opposition will press it.

Rs 35 a day is all a police officer earns for risk, says Lobine

How far does Rs 35 stretch in a day? That is the police risk allowance, and Khushal Lobine calls it derisory. The Nouveaux Démocrates leader and MP for La Caverne-Phoenix wants it raised, and his timing is pointed: officers have just worked nights of unrest and a curfew.

For work that can turn dangerous in a second, he argues, Rs 35 is closer to an insult than an allowance. The sum barely buys lunch.

Cocaine suspect 'Vida Loca' is sent to Madagascar to face the case

Maurice Vitto Laurent Jeevanji, the man known as Vida Loca, was extradited to Madagascar on 16 October over cocaine trafficking. Investigators are now tracing the money and the international connections behind him, the sort of web that rarely ends at one name.

A couple seeks Rs 11.1 million from the State over alleged medical errors

October is breast cancer awareness month, and for one couple it also brings a lawsuit: they are claiming Rs 11.1 million from the State over alleged errors in her treatment. The figure sits beside two women profiled this week, one diagnosis, two very different roads through it.

Shorts

Exam cancellation rattles pupils – A last-minute exam cancellation has left candidates anxious before the October season.

Flacq blood drive to refill reserves – Anil Bachoo has opened a Flacq blood drive to rebuild reserves drained during the unrest.

Woman dies in Pailles crash – A Glen Park woman died in a motorcycle crash at Pailles, police said.

Twelve admit curfew breaches – Twelve people pleaded guilty to breaking the curfew as 13 more were held overnight.

Metro runs again, Barkly stays shut – Metro Express is rolling again after four days, but the battered Barkly station has no reopening date.

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50,000 m³

Daily draw from the Mare-aux-Vacoas reservoir has fallen by more than half, down from roughly 110,000 cubic metres as the drought deepens. Engineers are stretching what little is left.

2 hurt

Gunmen opened fire on Bollywood star Tiger Shroff in Mumbai's Juhu district on Sunday night, wounding two. Police are hunting the attackers.

60%

More than six of every ten of the poorest nations now sit at or near debt distress, the IMF warned at its Bangkok meetings, even as an AI boom lifts richer tech exporters. Connectivity, delegates argued, is the road back.

Cameroon's main opposition picks its first woman leader

Cameroon's biggest opposition party, the MRC, has elected Tiriane Balbine Noah as its president, the first woman to lead it. She replaces Maurice Kamto, who steered the party through years of bruising contests with the party that has governed for decades.

The MRC, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, has long been the sharpest thorn in the government's side. Whether a new face change its fortunes is the open question.

DR Congo says Kabila is plotting an attack

DR Congo accuses former president Joseph Kabila of planning a 'general attack' after he joined the M23 rebels driving the eastern insurgency.

Mauritius eyes a beach volleyball double in Moroni

Mauritius is chasing a double at the second leg of the Zone 7 beach volleyball circuit in Moroni, Comoros.

Tirana erupts as students tell Albania's PM to go

Protests against Albania's government have boiled over into clashes with police in Tirana, the capital, with students leading the call for Prime Minister Edi Rama to step down.

What began as campus grievance has hardened into a test of PM Rama's grip. Neither side looks ready to blink, and the streets are the only venue left.

Settlers attack EU diplomats in the West Bank

Masked Israeli settlers attacked EU diplomats, a French mayor and Palestinians during the West Bank olive harvest, drawing calls for EU sanctions.

Ukrainian drones set St Petersburg ablaze

Ukrainian drones set fires across St Petersburg; Russia said it downed 126 of them, while its own strikes killed at least eight.

From a wedding cake to a comeback in pastry

One wedding cake started it; today Saveria Roméo runs a full patisserie back home in Mauritius. A childhood passion turned into a trade, and the trade turned into a reason to come home.

Not every homecoming needs a grand plan. Sometimes it just needs a good recipe and the nerve to charge for it.

🙏 Merci, à demain! 👋

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