After Monday's hearing, Ilaria Salis was questioned by the staff of the prison where she is detained in Budapest regarding her prison conditions and in the end she was made to sign a report of her words written in Hungarian: this is what the 39-year-old Milanese herself reported in a letter sent to the Italian ambassador in Budapest Manuel Jacoangeli with the request to share it with his lawyer Eugenio Losco.
After she returned to prison at the end of the first hearing of her trial, Ilaria Salis was taken to a room where two prison staff officers asked her questions about the prison conditions which she confirmed were very harsh, as she had denounced in the memorial written in recent months.
At the end of this interview, they brought her a piece of paper written entirely in Hungarian, explaining that it was the record of her statements.
Salis asked for information on why they had asked her those questions and was told that it was to clarify the news that had appeared in the newspapers about the difficult conditions in which she was detained.
When she returned to her cell, she discovered that the same things had been asked of other women detained with her.
You then wrote a letter dated 30 January which was sent to the Italian embassy in Budapest, denouncing what happened and with a request to share it with your Italian lawyer, the lawyer Eugenio Losco.
"She is very, very worried about what is happening in prison," Eugenio Losco told ANSA.
"You were practically ordered to sign it and it worries me that on that paper there are words to discredit my client. I asked the embassy to intervene to get a copy of these declarations, but I wonder what obligation it was, whether it was a form of intimidation or an attempt to scare her," he added.
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