Ilaria Salis under house arrest in Budapest, AVS “We want to bring her back to Italy and Brussels as an MEP”

Brussels – The second-instance court in Budapest has upheld the appeal filed by Ilaria Salis‘s lawyers: the 39-year-old Italian teacher and activist, who has been in prison for more than 15 months in Hungary, will be allowed to go under house arrest.

The Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who announced it during question time in the House, rejoices. Rejoices her father, Roberto Salis, and Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, who have decided to candidate Salis in the lists of the Greens and Left Alliance for the next European elections: “We are happy and even more convinced of our choice to nominate Ilaria in our lists. Now, after this first victory, so important for her and all of us, we want to bring her back to Italy and then to Brussels as an MEP so that the issue of respect for rights in Europe becomes a fully political issue,” said the two Avs leaders.

While Bonelli and Fratoianni attributed the release from prison “to the tenacity and determination of the family,” they continued, “and of all those who instead of remaining silent have fought and will continue to fight for Ilaria’s rights,” Vice-Premier Tajani claimed credit for “the synergistic action, of the government and our embassy, who worked intensely, silently, without making propaganda, without drum rolls, as we have always done, as we are doing with Falcinelli and everyone.”

According to a report to AGI from Salis’ lawyer Mauro Straini, his client will have to pay a bail of 40,000 euros, after which she will be granted an electronic bracelet. The appeal had been filed by the woman’s lawyers after, in the last hearing (last March 28), Judge Jozsef Sós denied her house arrest in both Hungary and Italy. The Hungarian judiciary accuses Ilaria Salis of assaulting two neo-Nazi militants during a demonstration on “Honor Day” on February 11 last year.