Ilaria Salis, appeal accepted: yes to house arrest in Budapest

The appeal presented by the lawyers of Ilaria Salis was accepted by the Hungarian court of second instance and she can therefore be released from prison and placed under house arrest in Budapest .

The appeal was presented by Ilaria Salis' lawyers against the decision of judge Jozsef Sós who in the last hearing on 28 March had denied her house arrest both in Italy and in Hungary.

On appeal, the request was instead accepted and therefore the 39-year-old activist of Sardinian origin, candidate with Avs for the next European elections, will be able to leave prison in Budapest where she has been for over 15 months on charges of having attacked extreme militants right.

The provision, which provides for the electronic bracelet, will become enforceable as soon as the 40 thousand euro bail required by the court is paid. «A success for the defense», exults the lawyer Gyorgy Magyar, «you have guaranteed that he will not run away and will have an electronic bracelet». The lawyer urged the activist's family to pay quickly.

«Ilaria is thrilled to finally be able to leave prison and we are very happy to finally be able to hug her again »: so Roberto Salis, the 39-year-old's father. "She's not out of the well yet - he added - but it will certainly be very nice to be able to hug her again after 15 months, even if as long as she's in Hungary I don't feel completely at ease."

" I would like to express my satisfaction with the news we have received on the granting of house arrest to Ilaria Salis ," Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said to the Chamber before question time.

The provision also facilitates the path for Salis's possible return to Italy . The Italian authorities, we learn from government sources, could ask the Hungarian ministry for the necessary documentation and send everything to the competent judicial authority for the recognition and enforcement in Italy of the applied measure , according to the provisions of the framework law of the European Council of 2009, for the mutual recognition of decisions on "alternative measures to precautionary detention".

(Unioneonline/vl)