Amarjeet Kumar Singh, a 28-year-old Indian national, who says he is an accountant and lives in Réduit, was arrested by police officers at the Flic-en-Flac police station at the end of the day on Sunday, December 8. He is accused of having threatened the modesty of Emilie Volbert, an 18-year-old college student, who was at the beach with her family and who was taking advantage of the good weather to swim that day. The man appeared before the Bambous district court yesterday.
However, it must be highlighted that if several members of the public denounced the actions of the foreigner, including a policewoman and the parents of a girl of about five years old, it was only thanks to her last victim that Amarjeet Kumar Singh was unmasked and delivered to the police. Indeed, only the young Emilie Volbert, 18, had the courage to go all the way by filing a complaint against the alleged pervert with the police so that he would answer for his actions before the justice system. According to the young woman, she was playing with her little brother at the water’s edge when she accidentally hit the individual. She explained that she had not had time to turn around that the man was already grabbing her chest. To the police, the college girl said that she had then fought violently to repel the man and that when she had been able to stand in front of him, the pervert was expressionless and acted as if nothing had happened.
Shocked by the incident, Emilie says she immediately alerted her mother who, in turn, notified the local police station. Meanwhile, seeing that things were getting tough for him, Amarjeet Kumar Singh tried to flee but he was held, while waiting for the arrival of the police, by the brave young girl, with the support of a group of people present on the beach. When we spoke to Emilie Volbert, she said she was shocked that men could still behave like this in the sight of a woman in 2024, but even more so that she was the only one to file a complaint when several other women had paid the price of this pervert.
She also wants to silence the bad tongues that will dare to justify such behavior by the clothes sometimes considered too sexy that women wear. Emilie Volbert specifies that she was not in a bikini or swimsuit, but that she wore a large t-shirt with shorts underneath and that even if this were not the case, such gestures are not allowed in principle and by morality, or by law. It is inconceivable that such things happen to Mauritius and that it is foreigners who do it, according to her. “It’s not the clothes that make the rapist, but the rapist.”
It should be noted that in India, thousands of citizens continue to demonstrate to denounce and demand concrete actions against cases of rape and femicide of which women are victims, every day.