Ilaria Salis: "Put me on trial in Italy. The Meloni government should take the initiative with Orban; it can do so."

This morning, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee will vote on the Hungarian government's request to lift the immunity of MEP Ilaria Salis , elected with the Alliance of the Greens and the Left. Salis is accused of seriously injuring neo-Nazis and criminal conspiracy. The committee's vote is a signal to the plenary session, which will vote in Strasbourg on October 7 by a show of hands and a simple majority . "I don't want to avoid the trial. In fact, I want to be tried. But not in Hungary," Salis told Aldo Cazzullo in Il Corriere della Sera, " where it would be a political trial, where the sentence is already written . I want to be tried in my country. In Italy. I have faith in the judiciary. I have faith in the Italian judiciary."

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"Revoking my immunity," Salis continued to Il Corriere, " would mean handing me over to a persecution already underway . My conviction was effectively sanctioned in advance by the political authorities, in a country where the judiciary is not independent and where I would be subjected, in retaliation, to inhumane prison conditions."

Salis then launched an appeal to Prime Minister Meloni: "From the case history, from precedents, and from my lawyers," the MEP explained, "it appears that sometimes the initiative was taken by the Prosecutor's Office, but other times it was taken by the Minister of Justice . I am convinced that the government is capable of ensuring that the trial takes place in Italy, in accordance with the law, so that it can lead to a fair sentence. This is what I strongly urge."

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