"We are asking to verify respect for the rights" of Ilaria Salis. Handcuffing "is a treatment reserved in several Western states, we don't do it.
From the beginning the government has provided all possible assistance."
Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, at the end of the EU Council and on her meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
"Even in Hungary there is the autonomy of judges and governments do not participate in trials" but "what I spoke about with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban" is "
that treatment of dignity, respect and a fair trial be given"
for Ilaria Salis reiterated the prime minister.
"Neither I nor Orban can enter today into the judgment that the judiciary is responsible for; I can only hope that Ilaria Salis will be able to demonstrate his innocence in a speedy trial."
The images of Ilaria Salis in court in chains?
"It happens in various countries, including Western ones, it's not our custom, they are certainly images that have an impact, but in other sovereign states it works like this."
"The issue of possible detention in Italy must be discussed when we know how the trial will go.
Because I have heard a lot of debate in Italy but I must point out that, as in Italy,
in Hungary too there is the autonomy of the judges so the governments do not enter
" within their competences, explained Meloni, underlining however how "I was struck that the hearing was opened and that it was postponed to May, I believe that something more can be done on this".
"I can only hope that Salis demonstrates his non-involvement with this so-called 'hammer gang', obviously the government and the embassy will guarantee all the assistance" necessary for the Italian.
Tajani, urgent information in Parliament on 8 February
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.
"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
"
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".
Ilaria's father: 'We are suing Salvini for defamation'
"We will get the appropriate power of attorney from Ilaria because, following the declarations damaging to his reputation regarding the alleged attack on the Lega kiosk in Monza, we have decided to sue Matteo Salvini for defamation": this is what Roberto Salis told
ANSA
, the father of the 39-year-old Milanese woman who has been in prison for almost a year in Budapest.
Furthermore, "following the ignoble attack and ambush on the Diario del giorno broadcast, the family has also decided to sue Giuseppe Brindisi and Alessandro Sallusti for defamation".
Meanwhile, a clarification arrives on the 39-year-old's role in the school. "Ilaria Salis does not work as a teacher in a primary school, while she has carried out short substitutions in a lower secondary school, or middle school, as a literature teacher
. And she is not even a temporary teacher with an annual contract (until end of lessons or until August 31st), but he did occasional substitute work until last year".
'Tuttoscuola' underlines this with reference to the declarations of the minister and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini who said he considered it "absurd that this Salis is a teacher in Italy" and that if "if she were declared guilty, it would be incompatible with teaching in an elementary school I hope she is proven innocent because if she were found guilty, acts of violence attributable to an elementary school teacher would be absolutely serious."
"The minister can sleep soundly: the anti-fascist militant from Monza, in fact, graduated in Literature and only occasionally did some substitute work in middle school", concludes 'Tuttoscuola'.
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