Ilaria Salis, fresh from her election to the European Parliament, is free and can return to Italy : the Hungarian police left the residence in Budapest where an Italian family was hosting her, after removing the electronic bracelet she was wearing on her ankle and issuing a document in Hungarian .
Ansa has learned that the request for release was filed by her Hungarian lawyer Gyorgy Magyar immediately after winning a position as an MEP with Avs.
The teacher of Sardinian origins will probably return to our country by Monday 17 June, her 40th birthday . Her family had already bought tickets to join her and celebrate together. But the plans have changed.
"Finally! We are happy with the news that comes from Budapest, the MEP Ilaria Salis can now return to Italy and will be able to carry out her new role for which hundreds of thousands of voters have indicated her - write the Green and Left deputies Angelo Bonelli in a note and Nicola Fratoianni -. Our thanks go to everyone and all those who, like us, have been outraged in recent months and have not resigned themselves to the terrible condition in which she was held in Orban's prisons. Now he will be able to defend the civil and social rights of the weakest together with us. We are waiting for you ."
The Avs MEP was arrested on 11 February 2023 on charges of being part of a criminal association and of having participated in two attacks against three far-right militants in Budapest. She remained in prison for over 15 months until the request made by her lawyers to be able to serve the precautionary measure under house arrest was accepted. After the election in Brussels with Avs (175 thousand preferences which he received), Salis was waiting for the proclamation and therefore for the documents certifying his status as a European parliamentarian.
(Unioneonline/D)
