Report. Now, a new story begins, featuring the honorable MEP Ilaria Salis, a member of the European Left.

written by Mario Di Vito

Topic European Union

June 18, 2024

As of Friday morning, 489 days after her arrest, Ilaria Salis was once again a free woman. Before noon, two police officers rang at the front door of the Budapest apartment where the Italian woman had been held in house arrest for just over three weeks and dismantled her ankle monitor, according to the latest ruling by Judge Joseph Sos.

In the ruling, some 10 pages long in total, the judge referenced a ruling by the European Court of Justice that MEP status should be deemed to be in effect from the moment of election, without the need to wait for it to be officially formalized. Thus, as a result of the 176,000 votes she received as part of the Left Green Alliance (AVS) list, Salis has regained her freedom and was expected to return to Italy as early as Saturday: a moment of great happiness for her, and a slap in the face to those who have spent months lamenting how wrong it was to politicize the affair.

Ilaria turned 40 on Monday, and her parents had already bought tickets to go visit her in........

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