Salis stood trial in Hungary when she in 2024 ran as a candidate in the EU election in Italy. She was accused of assaulting participants in a neo-Nazi demonstration and risked eleven years in prison – but was released just before the EU election after sharp protests and pressure from her home country.
However, Hungary wants to continue the process against her and has demanded that the EU Parliament lift her prosecution immunity. But at least in the first step, it will now be no – albeit with the smallest possible margin.
”Ilaria Salis-Orbán 1-0”, writes the left-wing group The Left in a press release after the Parliament's legal committee voted 13-12 not to lift her immunity.
However, Salis is not completely safe, as the entire Parliament is expected to vote on the matter in early October.
At the same time, far-right members of Parliament are pushing for the EU to do as the US and terrorist-classify the left-wing activists who call themselves Antifa.
”Antifa is a direct threat to our citizens and democracy itself”, writes Tom Vandendriessche from the Belgian Vlaams Belang in a newsletter, according to the news site Politico Europe.
