Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter
Szijjártó said after meeting Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in
Rome Wednesday that he had been "surprised" by alleged Italian
interference in the case of Ilaria Salis, an antifascist
militant accusd of attacking two NeoNazis a a year ago whose
detention conditions in Budapest prompted Rome to protest to the
Hungarian government.
Salis' father has been trying to get her moved to Italy under
house arrest but Tajani and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said
they could not interfere with the sovereign Hungarian justice
system.
Her lawyer therefore filed a plea to have her put under house
arrest in Budapest.
Footage of her being led into court on a chain with her hands
and ankles cuffed caused an outcry in Italy.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher is facing up to
24 years in jail for the alleged attack on the neoNazis at their
annual commemoration of an allegedly heroic Nazi regiment that
fought off Russian troops.
Szijjártó said Wednesday that Salis was a radical who had come
to attack innocent people in the street and said he hoped she
would get her "deserved punishment".
He said she was "not a martyr".
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