EP Shields ‘Hammer Girl’ Ilaria Salis From Hungary Trial
23rd September 2025
The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted today, on September 23rd, against lifting the immunity of the Italian leftist MEP Ilaria Salis, who was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in attacks organised by the Antifa-linked Hammerbande (Hammer Gang).
Members of this group bludgeoned nine innocent people—claiming they “looked like” neo-Nazis—with batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.
Salis’s election to Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance in the European Parliament last year secured her immunity, which Hungarian authorities had requested to be lifted.