He is returning to Italy Ilaria Salisthe new European parliamentarian elected with Greens and Left Alliance. Released from prison in recent days Budapestwhere she was detained for over 16 months on charges of having attacked some far-right militants, Salis, 39 years old, will arrive in the afternoon Monza where the parents live.
Yesterday the father left by car for Hungary after judge Jozsef Sos granted her immunity by suspending the trial against him, with the consequent removal of the electronic bracelet which he had since May 23, when he left prison to go under house arrest.
Who is Ilaria Salis, from social centers to arrest in Hungary
Literature substitute in a middle school, Ilaria Salis, born in Milan but raised in Monza, will turn 40 on Monday 17 June. She graduated with honors from the University of Milan in Historical Sciences, in 2021 she obtained a master’s degree in Philology, literature and history of antiquity from the same university. An anti-fascist militant, at eighteen he participated in the foundation of a social center together with his school friends. A series of reports and complaints followed.
In February 2023 he is in Budapest for the celebration of Day of Honora day in which neo-Nazis from all over Europe celebrate the German and Hungarian soldiers who died in 1945 during the Red Army’s siege of Budapest. Involved in some attacks against far-right militantsSalis is arrested together with two Germans by the Hungarian authorities on charges of causing “injuries that could be life-threatening” of three neo-Nazi militants. The woman is also accused of belonging to a German criminal association known as Hammerbande, “Hammer Gang”, which aims to attack neo-Nazis, including physically. According to the prosecution, Salis participated in two violent episodes that occurred on 10 February 2023: the first in Gazdagréti square in which a man mistakenly mistaken for a right-wing extremist was attacked, the second against László Dudog, a far-right musician, the whose photos with a swollen face have circulated on the internet.
Salis has always declared herself innocent, rejecting the plea offer to 11 years in prison. For this reason she was held in custody in prison in Hungary. In June 2023, the first of three different requests presented by her lawyers requesting the possibility of serving house arrest in Italy was rejected. In November 2023 she was sent back to trial.
The news of her imprisonment only caused a sensation in December 2023 when the woman was brought in court with handcuffs on his wrists and shackles and shackles on his ankles. Political controversy erupts. In January 2024, Salis – who reiterates her innocence – denounces in a memorial that she was treated “like a beast on a leash”.
On 18 April 2024, the leaders of the Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli announce his candidacy for the European elections, with the aim of guaranteeing his parliamentary immunity. Meanwhile, on May 23, 2024, she was released from Budapest prison where she had been detained for over 15 months and was placed under house arrest, with an electronic bracelet. In the meantime, she was elected, receiving 178,202 preferences. On 14 June, following her election as an MEP, Ilaria is free and returns to Italy.
