The Budapest court did not grant house arrest to Ilaria Salis. “The circumstances have not changed,” Judge Jozsef Sòs said. The charges are too serious to grant her house arrest, even with the electronic bracelet, and to change her status as a dangerous prisoner. The topic was launched on the debate table by David Parenzo on L’aria che tira, the politics and current affairs program that airs every morning on La7. The discussion, however, took a completely unexpected turn when Christian Raimo intervened and, as a guest in the studio, made statements that left everyone present stunned. Conductor included.
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The columnist of Tomorrow began to argue starting from the judicial case of Sacco and Vanzetti, sentenced to death almost a hundred years ago in the electric chair in the United States for a murder they had never committed. “At a certain point the two of them decide to change their defensive line and begin to politicize the matter,” said Raimo, before returning to the story of the 39-year-old teacher. “Here there is an anti-fascist who goes to Europe, therefore to our house, to beat up neo-Nazis”, he added. But the journalist’s intervention reached its peak when he asked: “What should be done with the neo-Nazis?”. He provided the answer himself: “In my opinion we need to beat them, you did the right thing.”
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At that point it was David Parenzo’s turn, who in the face of such assertions could not remain silent. “I teach my students at school… Will he teach you how to beat up fascists?”, he asked his guest. Raimo decided not to take a step back from his position and not to reevaluate what he said shortly before. “Well yes, I think beating neo-Nazis is right. I teach my students that democracy came after serious opposition to Nazism,” he said.
