Fiji police question six students over a 16-year-old forced to inhale marijuana in Galoa
Fiji police questioned six students and released them after a 16-year-old boy was tied up and forced to inhale marijuana by a group of youths in Galoa Village, Serua, in an attack filmed and circulated on social media. No charges have been reported, the victim's family refused a traditional forgiveness ceremony, and the minister for children called the attack a serious act of violence.
🇫🇯 Galoa Village, Serua, Fiji
A group of youths in Galoa Village, Serua, tied up a 16-year-old boy, threatened
him with a cane knife and forced him to inhale marijuana, and filmed the attack.[1]The attack happened on the Saturday before the Fiji Sun’s Wednesday 11
February 2026 report, which gives it as Saturday 7 February 2026.[1]
At the time the minister spoke, police had not answered questions about the
case.[2]
Police questioned several students and released them, and said investigations
were continuing.[3]Police urged the public not to share the footage and to
let the investigation proceed without interference.[4]
The quantity of marijuana involved is not given; the boy's sister described a joint being shown to her brother.
No charges, case file or court outcome was reported; police said investigations were continuing.
The Fiji Sun did not give the calendar date of the attack, only that it happened on the Saturday before its 11 February 2026 report, so 7 February 2026 is used.
The number of students questioned is given as six by fijivillage, while the Fiji Sun says only several.
No photograph of the incident or the village was found on the pages cited; the fijivillage picture is a portrait of the minister and is not listed.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Fiji Sun: The questioning took place at Navua Police Station in the presence of the students' parents.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in fijivillage: The families of the alleged perpetrators offered a matanigasau, a traditional iTaukei ceremony of seeking forgiveness and reconciliation, which the victim's family declined.
The Nausori Magistrate’s Court acquitted two men of possessing 14 branches of marijuana found in a car stopped at Manoca in December 2024, ruling the drugs belonged solely to a passenger who had pleaded guilty. The court held the driver rebutted the legal presumption that drugs in a vehicle are his and acquitted a second passenger on the same basis.
The Ba Magistrate's Court convicted Alivereti Nabulivou Kunaveli for possessing 2.8 grams of marijuana at Namau, Ba. Police found the dried leaves in a sack and bag between his legs in a hired carrier after a tip about transport from Navala.
A Tongan national and two others appeared in a Fiji court on 11 July 2025 charged with possessing 1.4 grams of cannabis alongside 2.26 grams of methamphetamine. Bail was denied for all three and the case was adjourned to 25 July.
Six men were charged after allegedly being found with 139.6 grams of marijuana in Lakeba, Lau, on 23 June 2025. Four pleaded not guilty and one pleaded guilty, while a bench warrant was issued for the sixth man after he failed to appear in court.
