The news comes like a bolt from the blue to shake the quiet Senegalese community at the beginning of the new year: the mayor Albina Mereu subjected to criminal proceedings, article 317 of the Penal Code, alleged crime of extortion for "activities inherent to the administrative mandate" . This is what we read in the resolution signed by the municipal secretary. In the same resolution, the first citizen entrusted her defense to the lawyer Anna Maria Busia of the Cagliari Bar.
The delicate matter is tinged with mystery because the specific alleged crime is not known. Nobody knows anything, Mereu when asked reports that she knows nothing and on the reliance on the lawyer she specifies: «A necessary act for self-protection of the role I play». Lawyer Busia reports that «no notice of guarantee has been received by my client. I asked the clerk of the court of Oristano, based on article 335 of the code of criminal procedure, to find out if there are any charges pending against my client."
Hot investigation, but still shrouded in mystery. Meanwhile the news has spread, the Senegalese have learned with dismay and are wondering what could have happened, but without being able to give an answer.
