PHOTOS: Italian extremists occupied Hungary’s consulate in Venice!

‘Free Ilaria at once’, they kept shouting while the group of antifascist activists occupied the Hungarian consulate in Venice, North Italy.

According to ansa.it, the events took place on Friday morning during the visit of Justice Minister Carlo Nordio in the nearby Padua. The thirty partakers, all members of the leftist Rivolta (Revolt) were antifascist activists demanding the release of Ilaria Salis, a 39-year-old elementary school teacher and “antifascist militant”.

She faces up to 24 years behind bars due to allegedly attacking two neo-Nazis last February in Budapest.

“We are here because we want her freedom, because this trial is a farce that intends only to punish antifascism, in a state where anti-migrant border patrols are not only tolerated but promoted,” the activists said.

Several people beaten by antifa group

After some images emerged showing Salis on a chain and wearing hand and ankle cuffs, many Italians believed she would not get a fair court trial in Hungary. Furthermore, fake news emerged about substandard detention conditions, including bed bugs, mice, filth and inhuman punishments.

Hungary’s prison service directorate BVOP has firmly rejected media reports claiming “inhumane conditions” in a Budapest prison where an Italian woman is kept for alleged participation in organised armed attacks in Budapest last year. We wrote about the story in detail in THIS article. HERE, you may read the reaction of the BVOP.

Even Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had to talk with PM Viktor Orbán on the phone due to the public outcry in Italy, and secured a promise for a fair trial and good conditions from him. Salis’ family and lawyers do not believe Orbán. They keep asking the defendant to be released to house arrest in Hungary or Italy, depending on her trial’s outcome.

Ilaria Salis was a member of an extremist group of 14 (10 Germans, 2 Italians, 1 Albanian, and 1 Syrian), committing a series of brutal and ambush-like attacks in Budapest against Hungarians and foreign nationals. Some of them suffered life-threatening injuries. Furthermore, they plotted violent assaults against the militant National Socialist and fascist extreme right wing.

Her trial began last Monday at the Budapest Metropolitan Court. She did not confess and denied the charges. “I did not commit these crimes, I do not accept what I am accused of,” she highlighted. Meanwhile, the third defendant admitted his crimes.

Read also:

• Far-right avenge German ANTIFA attack, several people arrested – Read more HERE
• Italian Antifa attacker treated badly by Hungarian authorities? – HERE is the Hungarian diplomacy’s response

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