"It's absurd that this Salis is a teacher in Italy
. She can't do that job," Matteo Salvini told Repubblica speaking about the story of Ilaria Salis, detained in Hungary.
What are your thoughts on the Salis case?
he is asked "Now we are about to break the news that already in 2017 this lady had attacked a Lega gazebo in Monza. See? Does it seem normal to you that a primary school teacher goes around Europe, and now I also discover in Italy, in hit and spit on people?"
"So, going to court in 2024 with shackles is not acceptable - Salvini then says on the fact that Salis was brought to court in chains -. But if that woman is guilty she must pay. And if she committed the crime in Hungary she must be tried in Hungary. The left always tells us that we must respect the judiciary, so let's respect the Hungarian judiciary too."
She should be tried in Budapest, shouldn't she be brought back to Italy?
he is asked: "Without a doubt there - replies Salvini -. Another matter if you are serving an unjust sentence like that of Chico Forti in the USA. In that case you have to intervene and ask. But not in this case".
We must ask for fair treatment for an Italian citizen, Salvini urges again.
"I repeat: does it seem normal to you that a primary school teacher goes around beating people up? I'm worried that 6-7 year old children are with such an individual. I don't think she can work as a teacher."
But they are different things.
"If my son did what she does, I certainly wouldn't be happy. And at the very least I would make myself heard."
"The League, instead of fighting to avoid seeing the dignity of an Italian citizen trampled upon, starts rummaging through her past, even before the sentence is pronounced it has already decided guilt, and puts more chains on the wrists and ankles of Ilaria Salis, calling for accusations on which she has already been acquitted. In this nostalgia for the Middle Ages where the presumption of innocence disappears Salvini "makes statements of unbearable paternalism, but if he claims that someone accused of injuries cannot be a teacher, one has to ask him how he can, whoever is accused of kidnapping, being a minister".
Thus the dem secretary
Elly Schlein
.
"What a true guarantor, Matteo Salvini. What a courageous commander: he is bullying the state against an Italian woman detained abroad awaiting trial and therefore innocent until a final sentence who cannot respond to the charges because she was imprisoned by Orban, the best friend of Giorgia Meloni. And like any bully, Salvini uses any means to attack the poor victim: even the fake news about the attack on the Lega gazebo, even Ilaria's professional life. And then they come to talk to us about guarantees."
This was stated by the secretary of +Europa,
Riccardo Magi.
"Salvini and Meloni had said that their model was Orban. Model of what? Of a macabre plan of illiberal democracy outside the law, European norms and international law? Is this what we should expect in the coming years?", he concludes Magi.
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