Ilaria Salis is set to run for theGreen-Left Alliance (AVS) in June's European elections, IlFoglio reported Thursday.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary teacher and anti-fascist held in contentious conditions in Hungary and on trial for allegedly attacking two neo-Nazis last year will reportedly be the AVS'sNorth-West Italy chief candidate, said the Italian liberaldaily.
According to what the Foglio writes, citing Italian Left and government sources, the Italian diplomatic corps will authenticate her signature later Thursday to accept the candidature.
Salis, whose detention conditions have raised an outcry in Italy, was allegedly part of a German 'hammer gang' that targeted neoNazis on their annual day of honor in February last year remembering a Nazi regiment that resisted the Soviet advance in WWII.
The Hungarian prosecutor has asked for a prison term of 11 years but Salis's father says she risks as long as 24 years in prison on charges of attempted murder.
The alleged victims of her alleged attack did not reportedly complain to police.
Rome has repeatedly protested after Salis was led into court on several occasions on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed, which Budapest says is standard procedure for its prisoners.
She is also allegedly being held in a jail with bedbugs, ratsand routine mistreatment, her supporters say, a claim Budapestdenies.
Her father says she was tortured in order to get her to confess her alleged crime.