The father of Ilaria Salis, an
Italian antifascist on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking
two neoNazis in Budapest last year, said Friday he had written
to President Sergio Mattarella to "get the government moving" on
her allegedly inhumane detention after she was denied house
arrest on Thursday.
Premier Giorgia Meloni, a friend and ally of Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orban, has yet to comment on the case while
Italian authorities have stressed the Hungarian justice system
is sovereign despite repeated European strictures on the rule of
law there.
"I sent a PEC (electronic registered letter) to the President of
the Republic, a very dry letter referring to the one I had sent
him on 17 January and to which he had immediately replied," said
Roberto Salis.
"He is the guarantor of the Constitution and Article 3 (against
discrimination, ed.) applies to all Italian citizens: he can
intervene with the Orban government and he has to move the
Italian government because it evidently did not do what it was
supposed to do."
Salis, who was talking to ANSA, had been hoping his daughter
could get house arrest in Hungary so she could be moved to house
arrest in Italy.
Hungary said Thursday it is ruled by law and its justice system
is sovereign, echoing Justice Minister Carlo Nordio.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani warned against turning the case
into a political football.
Salis, a 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher who was
allegedly part of a German hammer gang targeting neoNazis
celebrating a WWII regimen that fought off the Soviet army, has
repeatedly been led into court on a chain with her hands and
ankles cuffed, sparking ourtage in Italy.
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