Following the court's rejection of Ilaria Salis' request for house arrest, the Hungarian government also confirms its intransigent line on the Milanese activist and teacher, who has been in jail in Budapest for 13 months now on charges of beating far-right protesters during a demonstration. President Viktor Orban's spokesman, Robert Kovacs, dedicated a lengthy post on X to the affair, directly attacking in particular the Italian press "which treats Ilaria Salis as a martyr". Kovacs recalls that since mid-February, Ilaria Salis's father, Roberto Salis, "has been making the rounds in the European media saying they are 'worried' about his daughter's safety as long as she is in Hungary. That is why they asked for house arrest in Italy, about which the foreign minister said "will be decided by the court, which is an independent body”. Last Thursday, the Budapest court had rejected Salis' request for house arrest, and Kovacs recalls, "stating that there was a risk that she would flee or go into hiding. Prosecutors are now seeking an 11-year sentence for her. Because there is a reasonable suspicion that Ilaria Salis traveled to Hungary with her two antifa partners with the aim of beating up innocent people on the streets of Budapest. Meanwhile, the Italian media did their best to portray Salis as a martyr".