The lawyers of the PMSD are about to serve a formal notice to the Regional Assembly of Rodrigues as well as to the government of Mauritius in the context of the Rodriguans stuck in Mauritius for more than six months announces Xavier-Luc Duval on his social networks “Ban Hommes de loi PMSD pe served in formal notice to the Regional Assembly and Mauritian Government….zot pe suffered boucou here”. The leader of the opposition also had a meeting with more than twenty of these people at his office from where they met with the attorney Pazhany Rangasamy and the lawyers Alexandre Leblanc and Rouben Mooroongapillay.
They feel that their constitutional rights have been violated while others maintain that they are victims of discrimination. Among those who request their repatriation to Rodrigues, there are Mauritians who live in Rodrigues as well as French people with the right to reside in the Republic of Mauritius. One of the people concerned pointed out that he sold everything to move to Rodrigue just before the epidemic recovery in March; “Our clothes, the car and everything we had in Mauritius left for Rodrigues in containers a few days before the scheduled date for our departure in March. We have nothing left in Mauritius. The idea was to open a business in Rodrigues,” he tells us.
At the time of the first census of people stranded in Mauritius, there were 443 passengers. It should be noted that the Regional Assembly of Rodrigue has made it clear that it is only the Rodriguans who will be repatriated as a priority. However, it should be remembered that a Rodriguan woman has already filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission against the Rodrigues Regional Assembly on the grounds that she has been discriminated against. In addition, this matter will be taken up in Parliament at the next parliamentary term.
