“I am shocked by the Italian reactions,” Szijjártó wrote on Facebook.
“This lady has been presented here in Italy as a kind of victim, a martyr.
“In Hungary, people were almost killed,” he added.
“People were almost beaten to death in the streets, and then this lady is portrayed as a martyr or the victim of an unfair trial.
“No one, no far-left group, should see Hungary as a kind of boxing ring where they can come to plan to beat someone to death,” concluded Szijjártó.
On Wednesday, the foreign minister said after meeting his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Rome that he had been “surprised” by Italian alleged interference in the case.
The so-called ‘interference’ - something Italian officials say was merely a call for human rights to be respected - came after footage of Salis being led into a Budapest court on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed caused an outcry in Italy.
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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