To recover the debt of Ilaria Salis’s arrears, «Aler should take immediate action to seize her future salaries as a European parliamentarian». The proposal launched by the Milanese councilor of Fratelli d’Italia Enrico Marcora to ensure that the Milan residential construction company collects the credit of over 90 thousand euros that Salis would have accrued since 2008 during an illegal occupation of an apartment holds sway in the Navigli area.
The MEP elected with Avs was condemned for the occupation of a property in Corvetto. «The positive thing about her election to the European Council is the possibility for the company to recover the substantial amount owed to it by Salis» adds Marcora. In fact, Aler does not give up and has activated the procedures for the “forced collection of the credit”.
All arrears, it is underlined, were calculated by applying the maximum envisaged increase, which is 150 percent. And this is how the figure would have inflated over time reaching up to 90 thousand euros. Even if in our country it is not possible to seize the salary of a parliamentarian, in Europe the situation changes. Italian law 1261 of 1965 provides that the monthly allowance and daily allowance of a deputy or senator “cannot be seized”, a concept also reiterated by law 18 of 1979. In Europe, however, the seizure of a allowance or a pension of an MEP like Salis up to a third of the total.
«Italian laws 1261/1965 and 18/1979 are not applicable to the MEP’s compensation, as they are internal rules – explains the lawyer Elisabetta Aldrovandi to the Giornale – but rather the Statute of the European Parliament and the 2018 decision which expressly establish the attachmentability of indemnity, temporary indemnity and pension in the amount of one third”, Salis’ lawyer, Eugenio Losco, intervened on the issue: “We should first have an executive title, a provision from the jurisdictional authority which ascertains that there has been an occupation without title of the property. Then the formal notice and the request for payment.”
And only afterwards will it be possible to request the seizure of the aforementioned compensation. In any case “there is no ruling that has ascertained the unauthorized occupation of the house in via Borsi” continues Losco, who wonders how the Aler accounting was carried out. In the centre-right there are those who remember that the former president of the Lombardy Region Roberto Formigoni, despite having been definitively convicted, had both his life annuity and his pension seized for the “Maugeri case”.
Roberto Salis, the father of the activist arrested in Hungary for the attack on neo-Nazis, makes it known that his daughter is already studying to be an MEP and returns to the attack on the Italian government: «In four and a half weeks there will be the proclamation and at that at this point we can talk about immunity and liberation. But we expect the government to take action to ensure that Ilaria can return home much sooner.”
The response from Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani did not take long to arrive: «None of us are elected – said the deputy prime minister – in fact we need the communication from the Court of Appeal and then the European Parliament must take note of it. We should know the law before speaking.”
