The Italian professor and anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis was released this Friday in Hungary after being elected as an MEP by the Green-Left Alliance in the European elections, which will allow her to obtain parliamentary immunity as soon as she takes her seat.
And hungarian court proceeded to free the Italian Ilaria Salis this Friday after the teacher passed first 15 months in prison in preventive prisonawaiting trial, and was recently subjected to house arrestafter being charged with aggravated assault and politically motivated criminal conspiracy for allegedly attacking far-right protesters during a neo-Nazi protest, something she denied.
Salis, who is about to turn 40, always maintained his innocence and rejected the Prosecutor’s Office’s proposal for 11 years in prison, in a case that made headlines and provoked international outrage after the woman appeared in court in Hungary handcuffed and in chains.
Immediately after result elected in the European Parliament elections by the Italian list of the Green and Left Alliancelawyer Gyorgy Magyar presented a release request. His election will allow him to access the immunity enjoyed by MEPs. Now, according to Italian media, The Hungarian Police have removed his electronic bracelet with which Salis remained under house arrest, and plans to return to Italy in a few days.
“Finally! We are happy with the news that comes from Budapest: MEP Ilaria Salis now you can return to Italy y will be able to play his new role for which it has been assigned hundreds of thousands of voters“said Angelo Bonelli, spokesperson for the Green group, and Nicola Fratoianni, leader of the Italian Left formation, in a statement.
“Our thanks to each and every one of those who, like us, have felt outraged in recent months and have not resigned themselves to the terrible conditions in which she was held in the Orbán prisons. “She will now be able to defend together with us the civil and social rights of the weakest,” they added.
