The elected official, convicted of embezzlement of public funds, illegal taking of interests and favoritism, had to immediately abandon his mandate. For justice, it is a question of showing that the State has not given up exercising its sovereign functions in the archipelago.
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The pain is not symbolic. Tuesday, May 3, Saïd Andhanouni, the mayor of Chirongui, a commune of nearly 9,000 inhabitants located in the south of the Mayotte archipelago, was sentenced by the Mamoudzou judicial court to a fine of 15,000 euros, ten years ‘Ineligibility with provisional execution-that is to say that he immediately left his mandate-, five years of prohibition to exercise any public service and eighteen months suspended prison sentence for embezzlement of public funds, taken illegal interests and favoritism. A sentence that wants to be “dissuasive and educational”, according to the Mayotte prosecutor, Yann Le Bris, joined by Le Monde.
Elected in June 2020 under the label Les Républicains (LR) -he has since sponsored and supported Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election -, Mr. Andhanouni, it seems, quickly assimilated the advantages that he could draw from his function. At the risk of getting rid of the rules applying to local authorities and their elected officials, as reported by the Journal de Mayotte and Mayotte Hebdo, who followed the audiences.
“I did not know the rules “
His daughter, who has no other experience than that of a saleswoman, without a diploma or knowledge of the communities, benefits from a position of executive assistant for six months. “It was my deputy director of services who told me that we could do that,” he defends himself. He hires one of his 67 -year -old friends like “bodyguard” and the wife of one of his supporters as “civil status officer”. This one, unfortunately, can neither read nor write. “I did not know the rules,” he admits at the helm.
Shortly after his election, he participated, with a delegation of six people, in the national meetings of the Association of Territorial Social Action Managers, generally reserved for territorial executives intervening in this field, who stand on September 30 As of October 2, 2020 in Issoudun (Indre). All this at the expense of the municipality, which finances the trip up to 13,000 euros. However, according to the criminalization sheets of the congress and the geolocation of the phones carried out in the course of the survey, they will attend only a morning, for a stay which will last twelve days in mainland France. During this time, the mayor and his crew leave an unpaid note of 3,000 euros in a hotel in Châteauroux, in addition to the defractions provided by the town.
Then, between December 2020 and January 2021, during the school holidays, still at the expense of the municipality, he went with his director of the Cabinet, his Director General of Services (DGS) and his “Guard of Corps “in Madagascar, for a two and a half week stay intended for” cultural exchanges “, a stay that passes by Majunga, a port and tourist city in the northwest of the” red island “, and Nosy Be, famous island coastal converted into tourism. Traces of these “cultural” interviews, there is none left.
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