«A tiger in a cage», «a monster splashed on the front page», «buried alive» with sport as «the only pastime because unfortunately I don't even have a book», and «two words» addressed every now and then «to the pigeon that lands on the windowsill outside the bars, on the stool or on the locker."
Ilaria Salis, the teacher of Sardinian origins arrested in Budapest on 11 February 2023 on charges of aggravated assault against some right-wing extremists, recounts her first weeks of detention in a diary of which Repubblica has published some excerpts.
«Gyorskocsi Utca. Cell 615. Early March 2023. From the wolf's mouth I see some spiers and imagine that it is a cathedral. I later discovered that it was actually Parliament. After all, I spent just a few hours here in Budapest before finding myself in handcuffs and I know practically nothing about the city ", he writes initially. «Free time is the only time during the day when I see other inmates. With some I can communicate in some more or less well-known language. The others scrutinize me from a distance as if I were a strange creature. Perhaps because of the bizarre boots I wear, perhaps because the local media have transformed me into a monster splashed on the front page and I have a sinister reputation as the 'scourge of the Nazis', or perhaps simply because I am a foreigner", continues Salis who waits "with I look forward to the much desired contacts with loved ones in Italy."
March 9, 2023 is the "twenty-sixth day of captivity". «Hurray! ET TELEFONO CASA", Ilaria exclaims in her diary as she finally manages to hear her parents: "Speaking in my language, listening to affectionate voices and sensing the closeness of people triggers devastating emotions in me". On 10 March 2023, "they told her that my arrest will be renewed." Then he receives the news that his contacts "are prohibited, blocked by order of the General Prosecutor's Office of the capital Budapest. EVERYONE. In practice I can't even speak to my mother." "I feel buried alive, segregated in an alien world , in a dark abyss 'where the sun is silent'".
(Unioneonline/D)
