Expelled from the municipal council of Cagliari last May, the former councilor Paola Piroddi in August presented a complaint that resulted in the opening of an investigation which, at the moment, sees the councilor and lawyer Antonello Angioni as suspect. Extortion the hypothesis of crime formulated by the prosecutor Andrea Vacca. At the center of the story are the alleged "pressures" exerted "on me, on the manager and on the secretary", writes Piroddi in the document filed with the Public Prosecutor, to "entrust" the premises of the Mem to the Humanitarian Society-Cineteca Sarda directly. ".

According to her, Angioni insisted on this solution while she, on the other hand, spoke of the need to launch a tender, since it is a public property. The friction between the two had grown over time until May 25 in the municipal council Angioni had announced the arrival of the "warning with which" the lawyer of Piroddi announced "a lawsuit". The controversy had exploded in the Chamber, with the critical opposition for an "attack on the freedom of expression of the councilors, intimated by legal threats in the performance of their legitimate activity", then on May 27 the mayor Paolo Truzzu had withdrawn the proxies to Piroddi for then claim that he had to "protect the institutions". Sentence that had prompted the former councilor to present the complaint.

Angioni replies, underlining how his activity "consisted in presenting a motion to the City Council regarding the use of the cultural spaces of the Mem for the performance of activities of public interest". A motion “approved unanimously after Councilor Piroddi not only declared herself fully in favor of that solution but even stated that it was already being carried out by the offices. In light of all this, I do not see what my illegal activity as a municipal councilor would substantiate ".

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