Requests from Italy to the Hungariangovernment to intervene in the case of Ilaris Salis, a39-year-old Italian antifascist on trial in Budapest forallegedly attacking two neoNazis last year, would be in vainbecause the Hungarian government, "as in any other moderndemocracy, has no control over the courts," a spokesperson ZoltanKovacs said on X Tuesday.
Salis, an elementary school teacher from Monza near Milan, has been repeatedly led into court on a chain with his hands and ankles cuffed, causing an outcry in Italy.
A Budapest court last week rejected a plea to have her moved to house arrest in the Hungarian capital, as a hopeful prelude to being moved to house arrest in Italy.
Salis is on trial for attempted murder for allegedly being part of a German-led hammer gang that targeted neoNazis on the milkers' annual celebration of a heroic Nazi WWII regiment in February last year.
The men she allegedly attacked suffered minor injuries which they did not report to the police. Kovacs said
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the Italian government (or any major media outlet) to the Hungarian government will make it easier to defend Salis's case, because the government, as in any other modern democracy, has no control over the courts".
Hungary has suffered repeated European reprimands over the rule of law there .
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