Hungary has called on the EU to strip parliamentary immunity from the Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, who was detained for 16 months in Budapest after an alleged attack on neo-Nazis.
The case of Salis, 39, a teacher from Monza, near Milan, sparked diplomatic protests and anger in Italy after she was brought last January to court in Hungary in chains, her hands cuffed and feet locked together.
Salis was arrested in Budapest in February 2023 after a counter-demonstration against a neo-Nazi rally, and charged with three counts of attempted assault and membership of an extreme leftwing organisation….
