Ilaria Salis is free: the Hungarian police have just left her home in Budapest after removing her electronic bracelet. This is what theHANDLE. The request for release was filed by her Hungarian lawyer Gyorgy Magyar, immediately after her election as an MEP with Avs, and this morning she was released from house detention. Salis had been hosted by an Italian family since May 23rd.
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Ilaria Salis can return to Italy
Ilaria Salis can therefore now return to Italy. The MEP from Avs she was arrested on February 11, 2023 with the accusation of being part of a criminal association and to have participated in two attacks against three far-right militants in Budapest. She stayed jailed for over 15 months until The request made by his lawyers to be able to serve the precautionary measure under house arrest was accepted. After the election in Bruzelles, on the Avs lists thanks to over 175 thousand preferences, Salis was waiting for the proclamation and therefore for the documents certifying his status as a European parliamentarian. Her family had already bought tickets to join her to celebrate her fortieth birthday in Budapest on Monday but now Salis will be able to celebrate it in Italy.
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«Let’s celebrate his birthday at home, I’ll go get her and take her home – so Roberto Salis commented toHANDLE –. I’m really happy I’m trying to organize the return as quickly as possible. I worked quietly but we didn’t expect her to be released today. And instead she called me the lawyer Magyar to tell me that the police were on their way to free her. And now I’m going to get it.”
The joy of Bonelli and Fratoianni
“Finally! We are happy with the news that comes from Budapest, 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. 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 you will be able to defend the civil and social rights of the weakest together with us. We are waiting for you.” Thus in a note the deputies of the Greens and the Left Angelo Bonelli And Nicola Fratoianni.
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