italian here and the misinformation about this pisses me off, to be honest
Salis was in jail while still awaiting trial for several months, being held with no sanitary product, little food and rats and bugs-infested cells, under constant humiliation, for a crime where:
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she still hasn't been confirmed to be the person who assaulted the neonazi (evidence is extremely inconclusive, even the video doesn't make it clear if she's the person on screen or not)
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said neonazi wasn't even hospitalized for it
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said neonazi didn't even file charges for the assault
it's an entirely political mockery of a trial, as Hungary is currently ruled by an autocratic far right party. they were trying to make an example out of her — and going "oh so now far left parties can just elect people who beat people up huh???? so much for the tolerant left/that is based as hell" is literally spreading nazi propaganda
one of our smaller parties concluded that "trusting the system" doesn't work when the system is entirely corrupt and, in an incredibly effective political move, placed her on one of our preferential candidates list — meaning people had to directly write her name in, not just cross the party's logo — so she could gain immunity and finally be free, trusting that people would see the unfairness of the situation. it worked: she was one of the most popular preferential candidatss.
