(ANSA) - ROME, APR 18 - Green leader Angelo Bonselli on
Thursday denied a newspaper report that Ilaria Salis is set to
run for the Green-Left Alliance (AVS) in June's European
elections, after liberal daily Il Foglio reported the alleged
news earlier Thursday.
Il Foglio had said the 39-year-old Monza elementary teacher and
anti-fascist held in contentious conditions in Hungary and on
trial for allegedly attacking two neo-Nazis last year will
reportedly be the AVS's North-West Italy chief candidate.
"I deny it," said Bonelli, one of AVS's co-leaders.
Salis, whose detention conditions have raised an outcry in
Italy, was allegedly part of a German 'hammer gang' that
targeted neoNazis on their annual day of honour in February last
year remembering a 'heroic' Nazi SS regiment that resisted the
Soviet advance in WWII.
The Hungarian prosecutor has asked for a prison term of 11 years
but Salis's father says she risks as long as 24 years in jail on
charges of attempted murder.
The alleged victims of her alleged attack did not reportedly
complain to police.
Rome has repeatedly protested after Salis was led into court on
several occasions on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed,
which Budapest says is standard procedure for its prisoners.
She is also allegedly being held in a jail with bedbugs, rats
and routine mistreatment, her supporters say, a claim Budapest
denies.
Her father says she was tortured in order to get her to confess
to her alleged crime. (ANSA).
Green leader denies Salis set to run for AVS
Bonelli denies Il Foglio report on anti-fascist held in Hungary