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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