«I have received the request from the competent authorities in Hungary for the revocation of Ilaria Salis’s parliamentary immunity. The request has been forwarded to the Legal Affairs Committee.” It is midday when Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, takes the floor in the Strasbourg chamber. It was predictable that in the end the government led by Viktor Orban would ask to continue the trial of the teacher who loved occupations and social centers and who, to get out of prison in Budapest, got herself elected MEP with the help of the green-left couple of Bonelli and Fratoianni . The reaction is also predictable. Open up heaven. The person concerned launches the “call to arms” with a large “mobilization in the name of anti-fascism” and “true justice”. The pupil of the anarchist galaxy asks that the European Parliament «chooses to defend the rule of law and human rights, without giving in to the arrogance of an illiberal democracy drifting towards autocracy».
Obviously the Avs leaders go after her: «We stand in solidarity with Salis, we hope that the European Parliament rejects this request, aware of the fact that the conditions for a fair and equitable trial do not exist in Hungary», declare Fratoianni and Bonelli. In short, Ilaria should not be tried. In any way. But there is another Ilaria, whose surname is Cucchi, who seems to use another yardstick. Yet he is part of the same party as Bonelli, Fratoianni and Salis. The day before yesterday the Avs senator denounced to find out who the source of the scoop on the red robes is. Freedom of the press? A useless frill. The secrecy of the sources? A threat to be eradicated. The news of a magistrate who, in an email conversation with colleagues from the ANM, defines Giorgia Meloni as “dangerous” because “she has no investigations”? An annoyance that should never be repeated again.
But let’s go back to yesterday’s news. Susanna Ceccardi, MEP of the League, has an opposite opinion to that of the Avs leaders, who recalls the reason why Salis must answer to the Hungarian justice system. «I am thinking above all of the victims of the serious attacks that occurred in Budapest. I believe they deserve justice and I think it is right to allow them and us to understand, through a fair trial, what happened and why.” Carlo Fidanza of FdI is of the same opinion: «No, dear Salis: you are not an anti-fascist martyr but a political militant accused of having participated in a violent attack against unsuspecting citizens, together with your companions from the “Hammer Gang”. And sooner or later you will have to answer for this.”
A position also comes from Zoltan Kovacs, spokesperson for Viktor Orban, who in a post on I would like to clarify this once again: you were not arrested for your “political opinions”, you were arrested and tried for incidents of armed aggression against innocent Hungarian citizens! This whole farce is a joke, you are not a democrat and you are not a martyr. You are a common criminal.” It is certainly not Kovacs who establishes this, but it should be clarified in a trial. Trial from which the left-wing MEP intends to escape with immunity. However, a decision from the European Parliament will arrive. Even if it takes a long time.
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