The Italian teacher, elected to the European Parliament with the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra, has returned to Monza. Her case broke out last year after she appeared in court handcuffed and with chains on her feet
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“Let’s celebrate her birthday at home, I’ll go get her and take her home”, said the father of the new MEP Roberto Salis on Friday upon hearing the news of her release. Ilaria Salis returns to Italy on Saturday afternoon after approximately sixteen months of detention in Hungary. She will celebrate her 40th birthday with her family on Monday.
The Italian teacher was elected to the European Parliament with the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra. More than 165 thousand people wrote Salis on the ballot paper in Lombardy, Liguria, Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont. Immediately after the news of the election, the lawyer Gyorgy Magyar filed a request for release from prison by virtue of the principle of parliamentary immunity for those elected to the European Chamber.
What had happened to Ilaria Salis
Salis’ case broke out in recent months after the 40-year-old Italian appeared handcuffed and shackled in court. The teacher was arrested in February 2023because she was accused of attacking far-right demonstrators during a neo-Nazi rally in Budapest.
After several months of controversy, including between the opposition and the Meloni government, Judge Jozsef Sos on Friday granted her immunity and suspended the trial against herwith the consequent removal of the electronic bracelet he had had since May 23, when he left prison to go under house arrest.
