Roberto Salis scoffed at Tajani claiming credit for his ministry and the government, telling ANSA, “Tajani talks about the merits of the embassy and the government, but he should tell me exactly what these merits consist of because I don’t know.”
“The decision to appeal was solely the family’s, it wasn’t a suggestion of the embassy nor of the foreign ministry, neither advocated nor suggested by any institution.
“But if I knew what merits he was talking about, I would also be publicly willing to thank both the ambassador and Tajani.”
Tajani, for his part, said he did not respond to “polemics”.
Roberto Salis also said that an interior ministry suggestion that his daughter should ask to be put on the roll of overseas voters was “totally out of place” as it would scupper her chances of being moved to house arrest in Italy.
In a newspaper interview Thursday, Tajani, who is also deputy PM, said he was “proud of the work the government has done” to secure house arrest for the 39-year-old Monza elementary school teacher, who is running in the European elections for the Green-Left Alliance (AVS).
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, but which aroused indignation in Italy.
Roberto Salis had already said he had received no concrete assistance from the Italian justice or foreign ministries in securing his daughter’s release from jail.
The European Union has repeatedly rebuked Hungary for rule of law issues.
ANSA
