Roberto Salis, the father of
39-year-old Ilaria Salis, an Italian antifascist on trial in
Hungary for allegedly attacking two neo Nazis in Budapest last
year, said Saturday he had received a telephone call from
President Sergio Mattarella to express his closeness and
interest in the case.
"He reiterated his personal closeness to me and the family and
assured me his personal interest in the case," Salis told ANSA
after writing to Mattarella on Friday to "get the government
moving" on his daughter's allegedly inhumane detention after she
was denied house arrest by Budapest authorities on Thursday.
"I thank (the president) for the promptness with which he
answered me in less than 24 hours, and above all for his
sensitivity and closeness to the drama I am experiencing with my
family," continued Salis.
On Friday Salis told ANSA he had sent an electronic registered
letter to the President of the Republic, "a very dry letter
referring to the one I sent him on 17 January and to which he
immediately replied". "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," he added.
Salis had been hoping that his daughter could get house arrest
in Hungary so she could then be moved to house arrest in Italy.
Ilaria Salis, a 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher who
was allegedly part of a German hammer gang targeting neoNazis
celebrating a WWII regiment that fought off the Soviet army, has
repeatedly been led into a Budapest court on a chain with her
hands and ankles cuffed, sparking outrage in Italy.
Her lawyers have said they may appeal against the ruling against
granting house arrest in Hungary or may go the European Court of
Human Rights.
Salis has urged Premier Giorgia Meloni to use her influence with
her friend and ally Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to
help his daughter.
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