Ilaria Salis is on trial for allegedly attacking two neo-Nazis in Budapest last year.
“He reiterated his personal closeness to me and the family and assured me his personal interest in the case,” Salis told ANSA after writing to Mattarella on Friday to “get the government moving”.
His request was in regards to his daughter’s allegedly inhumane detention after she was denied house arrest by Budapest authorities on Thursday.
“I thank [the president] for the promptness with which he answered me in less than 24 hours, and above all for his sensitivity and closeness to the drama I am experiencing with my family,” continued Salis.
On Friday, Salis told ANSA he had sent an electronic registered letter to the President of the Republic, “a very dry letter referring to the one I sent him on January 17 and to which he immediately replied”.
“He is the guarantor of the Constitution and Article 3 [against discrimination] applies to all Italian citizens.
He can intervene with the Orban government and he has to move the Italian government because it evidently did not do what it was supposed to do,” he added.
Salis had been hoping that his daughter could get house arrest in Hungary so she could then be moved to house arrest in Italy.
Ilaria Salis has repeatedly been led into a Budapest court on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed, sparking outrage in Italy.
Her lawyers have said they may appeal against the ruling against granting house arrest in Hungary or may go the European Court of Human Rights.
Salis has urged Giorgia Meloni to use her influence with her friend and ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to help his daughter.
ANSA
