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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