The treatment of Ilaria Salis, a39-year-old Milan primary school teacher and antifascistmilitant who on Monday was dragged in chains into a Budapestcourt where she is on trial for attacking two Hungarian neoNazisa year ago, is a violation of EU rules and not online with ourlegal culture, Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier AntonioTajani said on Tuesday.
"This time it seems to me that we have gone too far," Tajanitold Radio Anch'io.
The harsh treatment is a "violation of EU norms" and is "not inline with our legal culture," he added.
Tajani said Salis' lawyers "must ask for house arrest in Italy" and added that Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has met with her father Roberto and is following the case closely.
On Monday Nordio said during the program XXI Secolo on Raiuno that Italy is doing "everything it can to mitigate the harsh conditions in which she is being held".
Monza-born Salis, who has pleaded innocent to the charges, faces up to 11 years in jail in the trial, which has been adjourned to May 24.
A German co-defendant, who pleaded guilty, got three years in jail Monday.
The centrist opposition Italia Viva (IV) party has urged PremierGiorgia Meloni to appeal to her friend di lei and Hungarian PrimeMinister Viktor Orban on Salis's case.
A Brescia-born activist, 43-year-old Carmen Giorgio, who wasSalis's cellmate for three months, told la Repubblica dailySunday that "she's scared of staying there forever, we've seenall kinds of things in there, rats, pigeons, lice, chains, maltreatment and beatings".
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