On instructions from the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister,
Antonio Tajani
, the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador
Riccardo Guariglia
, summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Hungary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning.
"In reiterating the protest of the Italian Government for the conditions" in which
Ilaria Salis
is detained and is being held in the hearings, Guariglia "expressed the Government's firm expectation" that Salis be granted "as soon as possible a
preventive detention regime in line with European legislation, including alternative measures to prison detention
."
"Yesterday's shocking images of
Ilaria Salis
, shackled in an undignified manner in the court of a country of which Giorgia Meloni boasts of being a friend, leave us astounded. When the Chamber opens we will immediately ask the Prime Minister for urgent information. The gravity of the situation requires immediate information and interventions. We want to understand if the government, through the Farnesina, already knew about Ilaria's condition. We hope that Giorgia Meloni will put the interests of Italian citizens before those of Orban."
Thus
Francesco Silvestri
,
M5S
group leader in the Chamber, told Ansa.
The father denounces: "The embassy knew my daughter was in chains.
"I believe that the Italian embassy participated in at least four hearings in which my daughter was brought before the judge in these conditions.
Until October 12, when my daughter wrote a letter, we had no evidence of the treatment our daughter was undergoing.
The only ones who knew and didn't say anything were the people from the Italian Embassy in Hungary." Roberto Salis, the father of Ilaria, who was shown yesterday in chains in front of the Budapest court, told Agorà Rai Tre.
Amnesty International, rule on house arrest may be applied.
"Regarding the case of Ilaria Salis, a rule could be applied, the 2009 framework decision of the European Council on the mutual recognition of decisions on 'alternative measures to precautionary detention', which in these cases provides for the prisoner a series of alternative measures, such as house arrest. It may not necessarily be applicable only to a final sentence, but also before. It is certainly a controversial issue, because a recent ruling by the Supreme Court has underlined that - in the scope of application - the relevant legislative decree of 2016 refers exclusively to measures non-custodial precautionary measures".
This is what the spokesperson for Amnesty International Italia, Riccardo Noury, claims.
Democratic jurists, the European Community provides for house arrest.
They denounce the "terrible conditions" of Ilaria Salis's detention and "the dehumanizing and prohibited use in our courts of handcuffs and leashes for life", constraints with which yesterday the Milanese anti-fascist teacher detained in Hungary for 11 months was brought to prison courtroom in Budapest, furthermore the 'Democratic Jurists' - with two lawyers from Venice admitted to the trial as international observers - recall that "the European Community has established the possibility of obtaining house arrest in one's own State, precisely so that unequal treatment does not occur between European citizens, whose risk of flight must not act as a discriminatory element".
Tajani, this time he went too far.
On the case of Ilaria Salis, brought to court in chains in Budapest, "this time it seems to me that it has gone too far": it is a "violation of community standards" and is not "in harmony with our legal civilisation": the said the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, in an interview with Radio Anch'io.
According to Tajani, "lawyers must ask for house arrest in Italy", and he also said that the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, met with Ilaria's father, Roberto, and is following the case closely.
"I asked for absolute respect for community law, because dragging a prisoner in that way seems to me to be out of place, not in harmony with our community law" and "there must always be respect for a prisoner".
If Ilaria Salis is found guilty, she "must serve the sentence, but there must be respect for the person, even for a prisoner, like for any human person".
"We don't want to intervene in other people's justice, but we are in the European Union and there are citizens' rights to be respected" and "our ambassador will say it" in Budapest and we will tell it to the Hungarian diplomatic representative in Italy.
Tajani said about the Salis affair "we have already spoken with the Hungarian government. At the last European Council on Foreign Affairs I delivered a document to the Hungarian government, asking it to ensure compliance with the rules".
"We will not leave our fellow citizen in a condition of non-compliance" and "we cannot compromise on this".
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