Ilaria Salis, an Italian antifascist
on trial in Hungary for alleged involvement in an attack on
neo-Nazis, has written to Premier Giorgia Meloni asking to be
able serve her house arrest in the Italian embassy in Budapest,
her father Roberto Salis told ANSA on Wednesday.
In the letter, which was also addressed to Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, and Interior
Minister Matteo Piantedosi, Salis said the move was necessary to
protect her safety and that of her family, and the Italian
citizens who assist her.
She said she received threats through a neo-Nazi website after
the address of her residence for the house arrest was revealed
in court.
Salis has been put up for this week's European elections by the
Green-Left Alliance (AVS) in a bid to help secure her release
from custody and return to Italy.
The AVS candidacy may have been a factor in 39-year-old Monza
elementary schoolteacher being granted release to house arrest
in Budapest.
As well as allegedly having to put up with allegedly dirty and
inhumane jail conditions, Salis was repeatedly led into court on
a chain with her wrists and ankles cuffed, treatment which
Hungary says is standard but which spurred Italian protests.
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