(ANSA) - ROME, APR 24 - Ilaria Salis would not be the first
criminal to be elected to the European Parliament, Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party said Wednesday of the
Italian antifascist on trial in Budapest for allegedly attacking
neo-Nazis who is a candidate in the June 8-9 vote for Italy's
Green-Left Alliance (AVS).
"If Ilaria Salis were to sit at the European chamber in July it
wouldn't be a problem, indeed she would not be the first
criminal in this chamber," said Fidesz MEP and former Rome
ambassador Eniko Gyori, speaking to the Italian media in
Strasbourg about the 39-year-old Monza lementary teacher accused
of attempted murder for her part in a German-led hammer gang
that allegedly targeted neoNazis on their Day of Honour
commemorating an SS regiment's "heroic" resistance against the
Red Army in February 2023.
Gyori added, however, that "the fact that the Greens have
decided to candidate her is inconceivable for us". (ANSA).