Handcuffs on the wrists, shackles and chains on the ankles and a chain pulled by an officer like a leash exactly as happened in the hearing on January 29th .
Thus, Ilaria Salis entered the courtroom, the 39-year-old of Sardinian origins who has been in prison in Budapest for 13 months on charges of attacking three far-right militants.
For her, today, the Hungarian judge Jozsef Sòs denied the precautionary measure of house arrest , and therefore the doors of the maximum security prison of Gyorskocsi Ucta are reopened.
“The circumstances have not changed,” said judge Jozsef Sós, adding that “there is always the danger of escape.”
In the reasons with which he rejected the request presented by the defense, the judge said that a precautionary detention of 13 months "is not that long given the seriousness of the crimes charged" , and underlined that "the danger of escape always exists", for this requires pre-trial detention in prison.
Roberto Salis, Ilaria's father, left the courtroom immediately after the sentence.
In the meantime, news arrives that a group of lawyers and friends of Ilaria Salis were attacked, upon their arrival in court, by a group of right-wing extremists . “They were waiting for us and they insulted and threatened us in Hungarian,” said lawyer Eugenio Losco. They said: "Shut up or I'll break your head." "They filmed us with their cell phones, they filmed us and our translator told us that they were threatening us," Losco continued.
Zerocalcare was also part of the group of about fifteen threatened Italian people, as well as representatives of Democratic Jurists.
(Unioneonline/vl)