Ilaria Salis appeals to the government: “Transfer me to the Italian embassy in Budapest”

Legal sources explained that the request for transfer to the embassy was motivated by "dangers for his safety"

ROME – Ilaria Salis wrote an email to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and three ministers: Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Justice Carlo Nordio, and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. After the publication of her address on a far-right site, the 39-year-old currently under house arrest in Hungary fears for her own safety, for her family and for the Italian citizens who assist her: “Transfer me to Italian embassy in Budapest”. The Italian teacher has already spent 15 months in prison on charges of having attacked, together with other anti-fascist activists, two far-right militants: the episode, of which Salis says he is innocent, occurred on the day of a major anti-fascist demonstration in Hungary, in which Salis had decided to participate.

Legal sources have explained that the request for transfer to the embassy is motivated by “dangers for his safety”, there has been a leak of information on his home address in Budapest (read aloud by the judge during the last trial) and now Salis is worried not so much for herself but for the Italian citizens who host her. Only a court decision, however, could lead to the transfer to the embassy because it would practically be equivalent to extradition to Italy.