Italian anti-Fascist activist Ilaria
Salis was released on Thursday from Budapest's Gyorskocsi utca
maximum security prison, where she had been held for more than
15 months, and was transferred to a residence where she will
remain under house arrest during her trial in Hungary, ANSA
sources said.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher is accused of
involvement in an attack on three neo-Nazis in Budapest last
year.
Salis's 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 their
candidates for next month's European elections.
A Hungarian court subsequently accepted a Salis's plea to be
released to house arrest.
Her family and her supporters hope this will make it possible
for her to apply to return to Italy and stay under house arrest
at home.
"Finally we have the opportunity to embrace Ilaria again," the
woman's father Roberto Salis told ANSA.
"Let's hope this is a temporary stage before finally seeing her
in Italy".
Salis is accused of 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 in February 2023.
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.
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