Ilaria Salis is set to run for the
Green-Left Alliance (AVS) in June's European elections, Il
Foglio reported Thursday.
The 39-year-old Monza elementary teacher and anti-fascist held
in contentious conditions in Hungary and on trial for allegedly
attacking two neo-Nazis last year will reportedly be the AVS's
North-West Italy chief candidate, said the Italian liberal
daily.
According to what the Foglio writes, citing Italian Left and
government sources, the Italian diplomatic corps twill
authenticate her signature later Thursday to accept the
candidature.
Salis, whose detention conditions have raised an outcry in
Italy, was allegedly part of a German 'hammer gang' that
targeted neoNazis on their annual day of honour in February last
year remembering a Nazi regiment that resisted the Soviet
advance in WWII.
The Hungarian prosecutor has asked for a prison term of 11
years but Salis's father says she risks as long as 24 years in
jail on charges of attempted murder.
The alleged victims of her alleged attack did not reportedly
complain to police.
Rome has repeatedly protested after Salis was led into court on
several occasions on a chain with her hands and ankles cuffed,
which Budapest says is standard procedure for its prisoners.
She is also allegedly being held in a jail with bedbugs, rats
and routine mistreatment, her supporters say, a claim Budapest
denies.
Her father says she was tortured in order to get her to confess
to her alleged crime.
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