Salis, an antifascist militant accused of attacking two neo-Nazis a year ago, has suffered detention conditions in Budapest that prompted Rome to protest to the Hungarian government.
Salis’ father has been trying to get her brought to Italy under house arrest, but Tajani and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said they could not interfere with the sovereign Hungarian justice system.
“[We are] without any desire to interfere, but with the clear intention of exerting pressure to verify that the conditions of detention respect European norms that uphold the safeguarding of human rights,” said Tajani.
Her lawyer filed a plea to have her put under house arrest in Budapest.
Footage of her being led into court by a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed caused outcry in Italy.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher is facing up to 24 years in prison for the alleged attack on the neo-Nazis at their annual commemoration of an allegedly heroic Nazi regiment that fought off Russian troops.
Szijjártó said Wednesday that Salis was a radical who had come to attack innocent people in the street and said he hoped she would get her “deserved punishment”.
He said she was “not a martyr”.
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