The 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher, who is accused of involvement in an attack on three neo-Nazis in Budapest last year, was incarcerated for 15 months.
Salis’ conditions of detention have sparked protests from Italy after she was repeatedly led into court on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed, a procedure Hungary says is standard.
The Green-Left Alliance (AVS) recently made her one of their candidates for next month’s European elections.
A Hungarian court subsequently accepted a Salis’s plea to be released to house arrest.
Her family and her supporters hope this will make it possible for her to apply to return to Italy and stay under house arrest at home.
“Finally, we have the opportunity to embrace Ilaria again,” the woman’s father, Roberto Salis, told ANSA.
“Let’s hope this is a temporary stage before finally seeing her in Italy.”
ANSA
