Hungary tells Milan court to hand over Marchesi

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 14 - Hungarian prosecutors have told the the Milan Court of Appeal to hand over Gabriele Marchesi, a young Italian who is under house arrest on a European arrest warrant for allegedly attacking neo-Nazis in Budapest a little over a year ago, in conspiracy with Ilaria Salis.
    The Budapest prosecutors were replying to a request from the Italian court for them to consider 'alternative instruments' to jail in Hungary, such as continued house arrest in Italy.
    Marchesi and Salis, whose recent appearance in court led on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed prompted Rome to protest to Budapest, are accused of being part of a German-led 'hammer gang' that allegedly targeted neo-Nazis marking their Day of Honour a year ago to commemorate a Nazi regiment that they say heroically resisted Soviet attacks.
    The father of Salis, a 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher, has said she was tortured to elicit a confession while a former cellmate said the jail was dirty, full of bed bugs and mice, and the scene of allegedly cruel punishments including cold showers.
    On Tuesday the father, Roberto Salis said his daughter was the victim of a "political trial".
    "On February 28 last Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto made a statement that described my daughter as guilty, voicing he hope for exemplary punishment," he told a press conference at the EP organized by Green-Left Alliance MEP Massimiliano Smeriglio and Democratic Party (PD) MEP Brando Benifei.
    "All this in a country where there is the rule of law, and in an EU member, is unacceptable." (ANSA).