Sergeant held over the Camp-Levieux shooting disputes the driver's version
Sergeant Gautam Taukoor was sent back into police detention on Friday after another round of questioning by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the watchdog that investigates officers, over the shooting that wounded Élodie Thomas, 27, at Camp-Levieux on 9 October.
He pushed back on the van driver's account, denying he pointed his weapon at the man's head and saying the driver ignored orders at the roadblock. He faces two provisional charges. One is using a firearm to intimidate. More hearings are due, the account of that night is still forming.
A director is questioned over the central bank's media contracts
Dirish Noonaram, the director of Verde Frontier Solutions, spent Friday answering questions under warning from the Financial Crimes Commission, the agency that chases economic and money offences, over contracts the Bank of Mauritius awarded his firm between 2020 and 2024 for media monitoring and analysis. The probe follows a complaint the central bank itself filed in March 2025, and investigators want to know who handed out those deals in first place.
The bank that signed the contracts is the same one that called in the investigators.
Rs 10,000 bonus for the forces that worked the unrest
Rs 10,000 is on the way to every police officer, Special Mobile Force member and firefighter who was mobilised during this month's unrest, a one-off bonus the Cabinet approved on Friday. Long shifts, one payment. It covers the crews who held the line while the trouble spread.
A new water transfer is promised for parched La Marie
Ten thousand cubic metres a day will move from Mare-Longue to the La Marie plant from next week, the headline step from a ministerial committee PM Ramgoolam chaired on Thursday. The plant is at under half its usual 110,000 with Mare-aux-Vacoas down to 33.2 percent, and PM Ramgoolam urged solidarity as two bigger projects are readied for February 2027.
Shorts
Six weak spots in MTPA's contract rules – The FCC flagged six vulnerability areas in how the tourism promotion agency hands out its contracts.
Dubreuil families still wait, 30 years on – Residents promised plots at Dubreuil say three decades have passed with no land handed over.
Rs 50,000 fine for dumping at La Salette – A court fined a man Rs 50,000 for dumping waste at La Salette in the north.
Belle-Rive man alleges a police beating – A man of 46 says three officers beat him at Belle-Rive and that Rs 220,000 vanished.
Emirates puts its A350 on the Dubai run – Emirates will fly its A350 on the Mauritius-Dubai route from November.
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