Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier
Antonio Tajani said Tuesday he had learned only Monday of the
fact that Iliaria Salis appeared in chains before a Budapest
court where she is on trial for allegedly attacking two
Hungarian neoNazis a year ago. "I did not know about the
accompaniment with hand and ankle cuffs that we saw yesterday,
and I was never informed about it," said Tajani. "I honestly did
not know how the detainee was being transported. We have asked
and protested that this should not happen again," he added.
"Let's see next time what they do," said Tajani. "Consular
visits have always been made, the detainee has received all the
things she asked for, we had no reports of unusual detention
treatment," he added. Tajani also said Hungarian Premier Viktor
Orban, a close ally of Premier Giorgia Meloni, "has nothing to
do with it". "it is not as though the government decides the
trial. The judiciary is independent," he added. "The problem is
to establish whether the rules were respected before or after,
we cannot intervene," said Tajani. "Hungary is a sovereign
state, and we can only protest" about how detainees are treated,
he concluded.
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