Requests from Italy to the Hungarian
government to intervene in the case of Ilaris Salis, a
39-year-old Italian antifascist on trial in Budapest for
allegedly attacking two neoNazis last year, would be in vain
because the Hungarian government, "as in any other modern
democracy, has no control over the courts," a spokesman Zoltan
Kovacs said on X Tuesday.
Salis, an elementary school teacher from Monza near Milan, has
been repeatedly led into court on a chain with her hands and
ankles cuffed, causing an outcry in Italy.
A Budapest court last week rejected a plea to have her moved to
house arrest in the Hungarian capital, as a hopeful prelude to
being moved to house arrest in Italy.
Salis is on trial for attempted murder for allegedly being part
of a German-led hammer gang that targeted neoNazis on the
latters' annual celebration of a heroic Nazi WWII regiment in
February last year.
The men she allegedly attacked suffered minor injuries which
they did not report t the police.
Kovacs said in his X post: "We have to make it clear that no
one, no extreme left-wing group, should see Hungary as some kind
of boxing ring where they come and plan to beat someone to
death.
"And no, no direct request from the Italian government (or any
major media outlet) to the Hungarian government will make it
easier to defend Salis's case, because the government, as in any
other modern democracy, has no control over the courts".
Hungary has suffered repeated European reprimands over the rule
of law there.
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