The treatment of Ilaria Salis, a
39-year-old Milan primary school teacher and antifascist
militant who on Monday was dragged in chains into a Budapest
court where she is on trial for attacking two Hungarian neoNazis
a year ago, is a violation of EU rules and not in line with our
legal culture, Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Antonio
Tajani said on Tuesday.
"This time it seems to me that we have gone too far," Tajani
told Radio Anch'io.
The harsh treatment is a "violation of EU norms" and is "not in
line with our legal culture," he added.
Tajani said Salis' lawyers "must ask for house arrest in Italy"
and added that Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has met with her
father Roberto and is following the case closely.
On Monday Nordio said during the programme XXI Secolo on Raiuno
that Italy is doing "everything it can to mitigate the harsh
conditions in which she is being held".
Monza-born Salis, who has pleaded innocent to the charges, faces
up to 11 years in jail in the trial, which has been adjourned to
May 24.
A German co-defendant, who plead guilty, got three years in jail
Monday.
The centrist opposition Italia Viva (IV) party has urged Premier
Giorgia Meloni to appeal to her friend and Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orban on Salis's case.
A Brescia-born activist, 43-year-old Carmen Giorgio, who was
Salis's cellmate for three months, told la Repubblica daily
Sunday that "she's scared of staying there forever, we've seen
all kinds of things in there, rats, pigeons, lice, chains,
maltreatment and beatings".
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