Ilaria Salis' family members "unfortunately have wasted a year - said Justice Minister
Carlo Nordio
to Sky Tg24 -: if they had immediately asked for house arrest in Hungary, perhaps all of this would not have happened. It is a great result that they were convinced , now let's think step by step. It would be a great result if the Hungarian judge granted them. We then hope to be able to operate on the conventions, our agreements provide that once prison detention has ceased then the international agreement norm according to which one can ask that house arrest be served in Italy".
"Minister Nordio is not informed of the facts.
I prefer to have a different attitude from the minister, I ask him to carefully check the facts and check certain statements, which were very devastating about my wife. I expect an attitude from the institutions that is consistent with their work. If we start arguing with the family...".
So in Metropolis on Repubbica.it
Roberto Salis
, father of Ilaria the 39 year old Milanese detained in Budapest, commenting on the words of Minister Nordio.
"I'm sorry not to be there but these are intense days in which everything has happened. I wanted to send greetings from the whole family and from Ilaria who is informed of the torchlight procession and is moved by your solidarity" specifies Roberto Salis, in a telephone connection to the torchlight procession organized in Rome by the 'let's free Ilaria Salis' committee.
"On my own I can't do almost anything but with your help we can achieve the goal" which is "to reunite Ilaria with her mother".
For further information ANSA Agency Gabriele Marchesi remains under house arrest in Italy: "Risk of inhuman treatment in Hungarian prisons" - News - Ansa.it Gabriele Marchesi will not be handed over to Hungary at the moment and will remain under house arrest in Italy at least until May.
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"Mrs. Salis confirmed yesterday a clear improvement in prison conditions, these are the results obtained" from the work of the Italian government, stated Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani in question time in the Chamber
.
"Protecting Salis' safety is the priority for the government which has asked for a fair and rapid trial. Yesterday's news was that the Budapest court brought forward the hearing to March, a very positive development which indicates the will of the judiciary to speed up the process as requested by the Italian government".
Salis: 'Different treatment between Marchesi and my daughter'
Discovering the mural depicting her hanged daughter was "devastating", it is "a death threat. We are worried about Ilaria's safety. Both in prison and if she manages to obtain house arrest in Hungary".
Roberto Salis says this in an interview with La Stampa, recalling how Ilaria "had always been against" asking for house arrest in Hungary.
"Also because if she were found guilty - she explains - under Hungarian law, house arrest does not cumulate the sentence".
But now "things have changed. They have made us understand that house arrest in Hungary is an obligatory step in order to hope to obtain house arrest in Italy".
For Salis and his wife, one hypothesis is to go and live in Hungary: "our lawyer is working on the optimal logistical solution. We need 51 thousand euros in deposit and a safe and monitored place. We plan to close the procedures necessary to present the apply by the end of the month."
Raising the case has brought some improvements in prison treatment, "it is right to recognize this, credit must be given to the Hungarian authorities - he observes -. There are very positive things".
For example, "the prosecution documents have been made available, but translations into Italian of fundamental documents for the defense are still missing".
The next hearing has "been brought forward to March 28. Time is tight".
Meanwhile, Gabriele Marchesi, involved in the same proceedings for the clashes with the Hungarian Nazis, will remain under house arrest in Italy: "I think that faced with such different treatment between two people in the same conditions, two Italian citizens - he underlines - the president could intervene of the Republic. I hope so. Because he is the guarantor of the balance between the different powers of the State".
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