Foreign Minister and Deputy PremierAntonio Tajani said Tuesday he had learned only Monday of the fact that Iliaria Salis appeared in chains before a Budapestcourt where she is on trial for allegedly attacking twoHungarian neoNazis a year ago.
"I did not know about the accompaniment with hand and ankle cuffs that we saw yesterday, and I was never informed about it," said Tajani.
"I honestly did not know how the detainee was being transported.
We have asked and protested that this should not happen again," he added.
"Let's see next time what they do," said Tajani.
"Consular visits have always been made, the detainee has received all the things she asked for, we had no reports of unusual detention treatment," he added.
Tajani also said Hungarian Prime Viktor Orban, a close ally of Premier Giorgia Meloni, "has nothing to do with it".
"it is not as though the government decides the trial. Thejudiciary is independent," he added.
"The problem is to establish whether the rules were respected before or after, we cannot intervene," said Tajani.
"Hungary is a sovereign state, and we can only protest" abouthow detainees are treated, he concluded.
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