The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs will deliberate on Thursday, January 23rd, whether to lift the immunity of left-wing radical MEP Ilaria Salis.
The request to lift the 40-year-old Italian lawmaker’s immunity was handed in by Hungary last year, following the election of Salis to the European Parliament (EP).
Ilaria Salis was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in a series of attacks organised by the Hammerbande (Hammer Gang), a German left-wing militant group linked to Antifa. The members of the group surrounded and bludgeoned nine innocent people—who the attackers decided “looked like” neo-Nazis based on their choice of clothing—with telescopic batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.
