The meeting between Ilaria Salis ' father and the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio took place today in Rome. The 39-year-old teacher of Sardinian origin has been detained in Budapest for almost a year on charges of attacking two right-wing extremists.
"It wasn't a useless chat even if I haven't seen an action plan yet, but at least we have finally opened a direct channel and Nordio seemed sincerely close to the family," said Roberto Salis, adding that he had the opportunity to inform the daughter on the conversation and on the steps taken so far for her release: «She is happy and also told me that magically after 11 months tomorrow she will receive a visit from the Italian ambassador to Hungary, who evidently after 11 months has noticed the situation».
«I am happy to have been called – Salis said again -, even if it happened 53 days after my request for a meeting. It took them 53 days to reply to me. It's not pleasant because my daughter has been in that situation for 347 days and throwing away 53 days unnecessarily is a shame", but at least we have begun "to dialogue directly and possible solutions have been proposed, which in reality have not completely convinced us . The objective is to bring her under house arrest in Italy and to do so there are some steps that leave us a little doubtful". Ilaria, her father underlines with a mixture of anger and anguish, "deserves direct communication from the representatives of the State and it is clear that there was a major communications problem between our institutions with the Italian embassy in Hungary, which played a fundamental role given that the correct communications did not reach both the Foreign and Interior Ministries. An embassy - he attacks - which did not realize that there was an Italian citizen tortured without notifying even his family".
The trial will begin on Monday and the objective, Roberto confides, "remains to find a solution for house arrest in Italy without waiting for the Hungarian trial deadlines". But there would also have been a further positive change in the conditions of the woman inside the prison. "I still use the adverb magically: now magically she has been involved in some laboratories which at least keep her busy in prison."
(Unioneonline/ss)
