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Anti-Fascist activist Ilaria Salis
must be allowed to go back to Italy or moved to the Italian
embassy in Budapest after the judge in her assault trial
revealed where she is staying in the Hungarian capital while
under house arrest, her father said on Friday
The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher is on trial in
Hungary for allegedly being part of a German-led hammer gang
that allegedly targeted three neo-Nazis on their Day of Honour
commemorating an SS regiment's "heroic" resistance against the
Red Army on 11 February 2023.
"We now have an absolutely unmanageable situation," Roberto
Salis said after the judge revealed her address during a hearing
on Friday.
"The government must take a stand now and make sure either that
Ilaria is immediately transferred to Italy or that she goes to
the embassy now".
The Italian Ambassador to Budapest Manuel Jacoangeli said the
embassy had highlighted what happened during the hearing to the
Hungarian authorities and "requested the adoption of all
necessary measures" to guarantee Salis's safety.
Salis on Friday appeared in a Budapest court for her trial for
the first time without the chains she was shackled with for
previous hearings.
Her conditions of detention have sparked protests from Italy
after she was repeatedly led into court on a chain with her
hands and ankles cuffed, a procedure Hungary says is standard
but which aroused indignation here.
The Green-Left Alliance (AVS) recently made her one of its
candidates for next month's European elections.
A Hungarian court subsequently accepted Salis's plea to be
released to house arrest and she was let out of Budapest's
Gyorskocsi utca maximum security prison on Thursday after 15
months in jail.
The Hungarian prosecutor has asked for a prison term of 11 years
but Salis's father says she risks as long as 24 years in jail on
charges of attempted murder.
If she is elected to the European Parliament, Salis may be
eligible for parliamentary immunity.
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