"The Committee of the Council of Europe for the
prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
(CPT), after the discussions initiated in recent days by the National Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Deprived of Personal Liberty - with the Hungarian counterpart ( the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary) and with the competent bodies of the Council of Europe and the EU on the treatment and conditions of detention in Hungary of our fellow citizen
Ilaria Salis
- formally reassured the Italian Guarantee Body" which is following the case with the utmost attention.
The Guarantor makes this known.
"It was the President of the CPT Alan Mitchell himself who confirmed, in fact, to the Guarantor that the Body he presides over is following with particular attention every development relating to the issues highlighted, both in the context of his visits to Hungary (the last of which was conducted in May 2023), and in the ongoing dialogue with the Hungarian authorities", explains the note.
"President Mitchell took the opportunity, finally, to congratulate President D'Ettore and the entire new Board of the Guarantor who took office at the end of January", concludes the note from the Guarantor.
Nordio: 'For Ilaria Salis the State is doing everything possible'
For the case of Ilaria Salis "the State has done everything possible. Even more. We have over two thousand citizens in foreign prisons and we take action for each one, within the limits of the law".
The Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio,
explains this
in an interview with Corriere della Sera where he specifies that the parents of the girl in prison in Budapest "have never been alone. I met the father twice. And we moved with due diligence, as soon as the problem was presented to us. But our intervention has an insurmountable limit: the sovereignty of foreign jurisdiction".
Ilaria Salis' father, Roberto, "asked us to describe to the Hungarian judge the guarantees offered by the Italian State in the event of application of house arrest. It was an inadmissible request - Nordio specifies -. If it had been a simple explanation, the magistrate would have could have replied that he too knew Italian law. If instead it had been a surreptitious request to convert the precautionary measure, it would have been interference. The idea that an Italian minister could suggest to a judge, Italian or foreign, how to behave would have been seen, rightly, as a sacrilege".
Regarding the possibility of requesting house arrest in the embassy, the minister further underlines that this is "impossible. It is Italian territory, but it has neither the structure nor the legitimacy to replace a private home as a place of detention. If, in the abstract , a prisoner were to leave, he would commit the crime of escape punished by Italian law, but he would be arrested in Hungary which would have to hand him back to us. We would have an insoluble conflict of attributions, which has never occurred."
"The only thing we can and are doing is to ensure that humanitarian and European rules on detention are respected", concludes the Keeper of the Seals.
Roberto Salis: 'The President of the Republic is the last weapon'
"We are reflecting. Plan A - getting help from the Italian government - has failed. Now we are studying alternative plans. The President of the Republic is the last weapon we have left".
Roberto Salis, the father of Ilaria,
the woman detained in Budapest for almost a year on charges of having attacked right-wing extremists, explains it in an interview with La Stampa where he declares that he is "furious" at the outcome of
the
meetings with ministers Nordio and Tajani.
"It was a disheartening meeting with both of us. They left us completely alone. My daughter Ilaria risks spending a long time in that prison in Budapest - he continues -. We will see the handcuffs on her wrists and the chains on her feet many more times".
In Rome, Roberto Salis and his lawyer had gone to ask the ministers for "two documents to support our request for house arrest in Italy. Those accompanying documents, signed by the ministers, would have served as a guarantee for the Hungarian government. But they both denied - he says -. They told us that ours was an irregular request. A request that risked creating precedents. And then they said that it would also be an excusatio non petita".
The close relationship between Giorgia Meloni and Orban, according to Salis, cannot help in this case.
"No, I don't believe in these things. I believe that there is inadequate management for problems of this kind - he concludes -. I absolutely think so. In fact, I don't believe that even with another government things would have changed much for Ilaria".
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