the mayor of Bouéni incarcerated after a trial | EUROtoday

On December 14, 2024, intense tropical cyclone Chido devastated the Mamoudzou judicial courtroom, like so many different public buildings. Two thirds have been out of the blue rendered unusable. But the functioning of Mahorais justice is just not paralyzed. The mayor of Bouéni, a city of greater than 7,000 inhabitants positioned within the south of the island, Mouslim Abdourahaman, noticed this to his value. The elected official was incarcerated on Friday January 3 at Majicavo jail, confirmed to World prosecutor Yann Le Bris.

This incarceration is the consequence of a call of the Mamoudzou felony courtroom, pronounced on December 10, 2024. Prosecuted for 19 offenses of “favoritism” and 6 offenses of “illegal taking of interests”, the municipal elected official, in workplace since 2014 , was sentenced to a few years in jail, one in every of which was suspended, a nice of fifty,000 euros, ten years of ineligibility and a ban on working towards a job within the public service.

A slightly uncommon resolution, the judges ordered the provisional execution of those sentences as a result of seriousness of the information. The prosecution instantly issued him a summons for the detention measure. “The attack on the social pact is considerable”famous the courtroom in its judgment, talking of a “local patronage system” and of “contempt for the rules ensuring the transparency of public spending”. “In a poor department and heavily dependent on public money”add the judges.

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