Roberto Salis, father of Italian Ilaria Salis, who is incarcerated in Hungarian prisons on charges of beating two neo-Nazis, has announced that he will file a lawsuit against the Italian Minister of Transport and League secretary, Matteo Salvini.

Salvini stated in the past days that “in the event of her conviction, in his opinion there is no way Sallis can continue to work as a teacher and be in classrooms with young children every day.”

At the same time, the secretary of the League added that the Italian activist “when she was arrested she was carrying a glove and was in the company of an extreme element”.

Initially, Ilaria Salis’ father had replied that he “doesn’t have time to deal with such things” and that he “wishes Salvini’s daughter has one tenth of his daughter’s moral principles”.

But then he said that he “will ask his daughter for authorization so that he can file a lawsuit against Matteo Salvini for defamation».

The lawsuit, according to the press, will concern some other statements of the Italian minister, who referred to “Illaria Salis’ participation in a far-left attack against a League stand in 2017”. A case for which the thirty-nine-year-old woman has been acquitted, with the consent of the prosecutor.

Regarding the development of the court case in Hungary, the defense attorney for the Italian teacher – who continues to plead not guilty – has set as the main goal of his strategy the transformation of prison detention into house arrest. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, underlined that under the current law, her extradition cannot be requested, before the completion of the trial.

According to the newspaper La Repubblica, however, the Hungarian judiciary reportedly wants to issue a conviction against Ilaria Salis first and only then consent to her extradition to Italy.

After the terrible uproar caused, finally, by the broadcast of the images of last Monday’s trial, in which the Italian defendant was brought into the courtroom in chains, the conditions of her detention, according to her lawyer, began to improve somewhat.