Everything postponed: “It’s not in good condition”. The long-awaited intervention of Ilaria Salis at the Milanese assembly of the Italian Left he jumped at the last second. Returned to Italy on Saturday fromHungarythe new one MEP of Alleanza Verdi Sinistra – elected with over 176 thousand preferences – was waiting in video link (without the possibility of questions) at the party’s Milanese party, but he was not there – despite last-minute confirmations – because the organizers explain “he is not in a position to intervene”.
Arrested on February 11, 2023 Budapest on charges of assaulting three neo-Nazis who had taken part in the ‘Day of Honour’, Salis – who turns 40 on Monday – with the election to European Parliament has ensured theimmunity. The Hungarian judge suspended the trial (risk 24 years in prison) and left Budapest, where he was ai house arrest since last May 23rd. After a nine-hour journey, she returned to her parents’ home Monzafrom which she had been away for over 15 months.
His father intervened in his place Robertowho just after arriving home had announced his “resignation” as spokesperson for his daughter: “I believe that with Ilaria you have made a excellent purchase. We know that ‘every cockroach is beautiful’ ‘to mother Soja’, but you will realize it. Ilaria will reserve big surprises for everyone, it will be a big surprise for the majority,” he said. He then reiterated that he will no longer intervene publicly: “Yesterday on live television, in the assault we suffered from journalists outside our house – he added – I irrevocably resigned from the role of spokesperson for Ilaria and as a candidate against third parties. She was one beautiful experience, but now Ilaria must speak. You have to ask her what Ilaria wants to do, I think she will start hers in the next few days campaign of comunication in its role”.
The MEP’s father then said he had been at the center of one “shitstorm” (a campaign of denigration, ed): “This is part of the process of political struggle of fascism: fascists have always done this when they have a political opponent they must try to demolish it. They did so with Gobettiwith Gramsciwith Matteotti. We need to look forward and be strong. Now I’m the subject of a total shitstorm, but I’m happy to do it myself lightning rod because maybe this allows Ilaria to work more peacefully”.
Ilaria Salis’ return to Italy, he added, “confirms to us that the choice we made on 30 April was the right choice because, if Ilaria first went under house arrest and then received this concession from Hungary’saccelerated immunityit is only thanks to the political pressure that you and Ilaria put in.” The chain of events, she concluded, “demonstrates once again that when there are political attacks despicable, there must be an equally strong if not stronger political response.”
