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.
"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
."
Meanwhile, Hungarian diplomatic sources interviewed by ANSA respond:
"We won't comment, they are delicate issues"
.
Budapest has also not confirmed that there is a bilateral meeting planned between Meloni and the Hungarian Prime Minister,
Viktor Orban
on the sidelines of the summit of the 27 on Thursday in Brussels.
The Hungarian Penitentiary Service: "False about Salis' conditions".
"The accusations made by the Italian and Hungarian media" on the conditions of Ilaria Salis' detention "are false and the prison organization forcefully rejects them", we read in a note from the Hungarian state penitentiary service which brands the fact as "sad and immoral that these slanders are reported by the press without consulting the other party."
The note cites the accusations of Carmen Giorgio, Salis' former cellmate, who spoke of beds full of bedbugs, mice, mistreatment and the use of chains by the Budapest prison service.
Salis's lawyer, ambassador supports house arrest.
"There was a first meeting with the ambassador and for the first time there is a concrete interest in supporting our request that Ilaria return home and be released. And this can be achieved with the measure of house arrest in Italy" .
Eugenio Losco, one of the Italian lawyers of Ilaria Salis, who has been detained in Hungary for 11 months on charges of having participated in the attack on two right-wing extremists, explained to ANSA in this way the face-to-face meeting he had today with the ambassador
Manuel Jacoangeli,
together with Ilaria's father.
"Today the ambassador has a first meeting at the Hungarian Ministry of Justice which will address the case."
M5S asks Meloni for information.
"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 are the people from the Italian Embassy in Hungary", said Roberto Salis, Ilaria's father.
Tajani, only found out yesterday that his hands and feet were handcuffed.
We saw the accompaniment with hand and foot cuffs yesterday, I didn't know and had never been informed about this.
We asked that this not happen again, "let's see what they will do next time", says the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani.
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Tajani: "Orban had nothing to do with it."
"Orban has nothing to do with it. It's not that the government decides the trial. The judiciary is independent."
"The problem - explains the head of the Farnesina - is to see whether the rules were respected before or after, it's not that we can intervene, Hungary is a sovereign state" on the methods of treatment of prisoners, said the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
The minister also said: "This time it seems to me that it has gone too far", it is a "violation of community rules".
Lollobrigida: "I haven't seen the photos, I'm going to look at them."
"I haven't seen them, I'm going to see them. I don't comment on things I haven't seen", said the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, a member of Fratelli d'Italia, responding in the Chamber to reporters who asked if he had seen the images of Ilaria Salis in court in Hungary.
Amnesty International, rule on house arrest may be applied.
"A rule could be applied, the 2009 framework decision of the European Council on mutual recognition of decisions on 'alternative measures to pre-trial detention', which in these cases provides for a series of alternative measures for the prisoner, such as house arrest", argues the spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy, Riccardo Noury.
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".
The deputy general prosecutor of Milan, Hungary does not respond to the conditions in prison
"It seems to me to be a seriously deficient response compared to the detailed questions posed by the Court of Appeal, very precise questions were given very imprecise answers" on the conditions of prisons in Hungary, explains Milan deputy prosecutor Cuno
Tarfusser
regarding the report arrived today by the Hungarian authorities for the proceedings before the Milanese judges who will have to decide whether or not to extradite to Hungary the 23-year-old
Gabriele Marchesi
, also accused like Ilaria Salis of having attacked neo-Nazis during a counter-demonstration in Budapest on 11 February 2023. "I will insist on asking that Marchesi is not handed over", said the prosecutor.
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