Italian journalist and
politician Giulietto Chiesa on Tuesday thanked the Italian
ambassador to Estonia for his "decisive intervention and
professional mastery" after being released by police following
his detention in Tallinn one day earlier.
Chiesa's wife Fiammetta Cucurnia said ambassador Marco
Clemente told local authorities "I am not leaving until you let
him go".
Chiesa, a former MEP, was released at 11 pm local time
after being picked up by police at his hotel in the Estonian
capital earlier in the day, and told he would be expelled from
the country within 48 hours.
He had left Rome on Monday morning to participate in a
conference titled "Is Russia Europe's enemy?"
On Tuesday Chiesa described his detention as a "blatant
violation of all norms of national, international, European and
global law" and as an episode that "illustrates to what point
the fascist decline in Europe has reached".
The detaining officers did not have a warrant, but they
told Chiesa his expulsion decree was at the Estonian foreign
ministry, his wife said.
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