They had come to express their discontent in the capital in the face of rising prices of several products, including fuel. The protest also took another turn, as the demonstrators, placards in hand, also expressed their disagreement with what they consider as a vaccination campaign forced by the government.
More than a hundred vehicles marched in Port-Louis on Friday, August 6, led by Jayen Chellum, the secretary general of the Association of Consumers of Mauritius (ACIM) and the activist Bruneau Laurette of the Union Sitwayin. The organizers are satisfied with this activity and they announced that other actions of this kind will be organized to express their disagreement with the actions of the government that they consider “against the people and anti-democratic.
The demonstration ended at the Champ de Mars.