Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will give the Government's urgent briefing on the case of Ilaria Salis
, detained in Hungary,
on 8 February at 10.30 in the Chamber of Deputies and at 12.30 in the Senate of the Republic.
This is what the press office of the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, communicates.
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"Mrs. Salis cannot be extradited because she has not committed any crimes in Italy
, the agreements say that if she obtained house arrest in Hungary she could come to Italy under house arrest. The request has not yet been made by Salis' lawyers" states the Minister of Foreign Antonio Tajani, guest of Restart on Rai3.
"We cannot interfere in the trial but we have the right and duty to intervene to respect all the rules that concern the dignity of the prisoner, in particular those awaiting trial. We would not like to see Mrs. Salis accompanied in chains to the courtroom, that it is the Hungarian rule but in contrast with community rules and we are intervening."
The Foreign Minister then recalls his colleague Salvini on the Salis case.
"Salvini said out of honesty that the treatment of Salis in Hungary is not appropriate, then
it is a mistake to transform a judicial case into a political one. The government is concerned about respect for rights, we are guaranteeists and try to enforce
community law
for the protection of Italian citizens".
Thus the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani, guest of Restart on Raitre, responds to Salvini's attack against Ilaria Salis.
Also this morning Salvini returned to the matter: "As a parent I understand the anxiety and also some original statements of Ilaria Salis' father, Roberto.
It is right that the government is committed with all its strength to protect the girl and I hope for complete and quick acquittal.
I reiterate, however, that
Ilaria Salis was blocked with a truncheon and in the company of an extremist: in the event of a conviction for violence, in my opinion, the opportunity for her to enter the classroom to educate and raise children is nil
"
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Criminal chambers: 'The shackles show the accused as guilty'
"Instruments of containment and constraint, ankle shackles, chains, handcuffs, slaves and leashes constitute the paraphernalia suited to the dehumanization and humiliation of the prisoner and to the presentation of the accused as a criminal".
This was stated in a note by the Union of Criminal Chambers in reference to the case of Ilaria Salis, detained in a prison in Budapest and brought into court with handcuffs and chains.
These are, we read in a note, "tools used to exorcise every feeling of humanity and do not in fact serve to prevent the escape of the prisoner but to proclaim the end of the presumption of innocence. Thus the accused was presented to the public and to the judge can only be found guilty. And so it appears that the accused was presented to the judge in all the previous hearings. What we have seen and learned about the treatment inflicted on the Italian citizen Ilaria Salis, tried and detained for a year in Hungary, contrasts with the fundamental conventional values established to protect people deprived of personal freedom and that country will have to be held accountable for this violation".
"If it is true that the accused has not even been able to know exactly the accusation and the evidence on the basis of which she is deprived of her liberty - the Union of Criminal Chambers further observes - the Member State also of the European Union will have to answer. But we must remind those in our country who subordinate protections, rights and guarantees to the type of crime or to the person of the accused that all this is the opposite of guaranteeism, whose profession in fact imposes unconditional adherence to the principles and indeclinable values of the Constitution and an unreserved subjection to the rules of the constitutional state of law. Rules and principles which we also remind those who intervene to denounce this serious violation of the rights of an Italian citizen detained in another country of Union, are valid - concludes the note - also for those, whether citizens or not, who are deprived of their freedom in our country".
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