Salis dad says wrote to Mattarella to 'move' govt

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 29 - The father of Ilaria Salis, an Italian antifascist on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking two neoNazis in Budapest last year, said Friday he had written to President Sergio Mattarella to "get the government moving" on her allegedly inhumane detention after she was denied house arrest on Thursday.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni, a friend and ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has yet to comment on the case while Italian authorities have stressed the Hungarian justice system is sovereign despite repeated European strictures on the rule of law there.
    "I sent a PEC (electronic registered letter) to the President of the Republic, a very dry letter referring to the one I had sent him on 17 January and to which he had immediately replied," said Roberto Salis.
    "He is the guarantor of the Constitution and Article 3 (against discrimination, ed.) applies to all Italian citizens: he can intervene with the Orban government and he has to move the Italian government because it evidently did not do what it was supposed to do." Salis, who was talking to ANSA, had been hoping his daughter could get house arrest in Hungary so she could be moved to house arrest in Italy.
    Hungary said Thursday it is ruled by law and its justice system is sovereign, echoing Justice Minister Carlo Nordio.
    Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani warned against turning the case into a political football.
    Salis, a 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher who was allegedly part of a German hammer gang targeting neoNazis celebrating a WWII regimen that fought off the Soviet army, has repeatedly been led into court on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed, sparking ourtage in Italy. (ANSA).