Ilaria Salis underwent a ‘preventive check’ at the hotel. Landini: "Unsettling"

The MEP of AVS Ilaria Salis subjected to a preventive control from the State Police carried out at dawn. Ilaria Salis was reached by agents in her hotel room a few hours after demonstration expected in Republic Square.

The AVS exponent spread the news via his social channels, linking the incident to current political climate and the recent ones norme legislative. “This morning the police showed up at dawn in my hotel room in #Rome for a preventive control lasted over an hour in view of the demonstration today”, declared Salis. The MEP then added a direct criticism of the executive: “Apparently, the effect of the Security Decree. Let’s realize how far we have come with the Meloni government in power we live as one Police state. But we must not be intimidated. Demonstrating is a right and we must defend it with all our strength. See you at 2pm in Piazza della Repubblica.”

The authorities’ response to Salis: “Act due”

The competent authorities they responded, framing the operation not as a political choice, but as a bound technical fulfillment. The Preccint he specified that the activity arose “from one report coming from a third country of the European panorama, which does not allow margin of discretion in the obligations required of Italian authorities“. According to this reconstruction, the check it would therefore represent a due act following international cooperation protocols. The control of the MEP would have started froma report from Germany. The alert, according to what AGI has learned, was triggered as part of theSchengen reporting system.

Landini: “Disturbing search at Salis”

“From what I’ve seen and read, it’s pretty disturbing.” He said it Maurizio Landini from the head of the No Kings parade in Rome regarding the hotel checks to which Avs MEP Ilaria Salis was subjected this morning. “They even tell me that it would be the request of a third country – underlined Landini – it’s not clear who, which has nothing to do with the demonstration”. “It definitely is a disturbing elementit is good that there is clarity because I find certain logics that call into question everyone’s right to demonstrate freely and democratically absolutely unacceptable”, he concluded.

The reactions: AVS attacks, solidarity from the PD

The official explanation did not appease the protests of the leaders of Greens and Left Alliance. Angelo Bonelli e Nicola Fratoianni they called the episode one unprecedented gravity: “It is unacceptable that in Italy a parliamentarian is subjected to preventive checks. Il Meloni government have you decided to subject opposition parliamentarians to checks? We have not yet become theOrban’s Hungary and we don’t intend to become one. On this matter we demand words of clarity from Minister Piantedosi“.

Harsh criticism from the Democratic Party

Dure criticisms they also came from the ranks of Democratic Party. The senator Filippo Sensiwhile marking the political distance from Salis, expressed it strongly worry for the methods of check: “I agree with almost nothing about Ilaria Salis and for this very reason I am happy that she can engage in free politics and with her opinions. I don’t think that Italy is a regime, but this episode seems very, very serious to me. I won’t take to the streets, but I express to Ilaria all my solidarity“.

The police commissioner: “No searches”

With regard to the check which involved the MEP Ilaria Salis in the early hours of today’s morning at an accommodation facility in the capital, the Police Commissioner of Rome Roberto Massucci, specifies that “the staff who intervened limited themselves to requesting documents from her and the person in her company”. “The moment the staff realized it was the MEP all verification was stopped without accessing the hotel room; therefore no search and no action was taken. In no case and in no way can the identification be correlated with the recently approved regulations on public order”, explains the Rome Police Headquarters in the note. The police intervention in fact “took place at the request of a foreign country and on the basis of a system of international collaboration between police forces which has remained unchanged for years. It is therefore categorically excluded that it could have been a preventive check carried out in relation to today’s demonstration, but rather an act required under international obligations”, he concludes.