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REPORT (2024/2086(IMM))

On the request for the waiver of the immunity of Ilaria Salis

A-10-2025-0183

Committee on Legal Affairs · Rapporteur: Ilhan Kyuchyuk

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Parliament decided not to waive the immunity of Ilaria Salis, a Member of the European Parliament, in connection with criminal proceedings in Hungary. The decision is based on findings that the proceedings appear intended to undermine her political activity, indicating fumus persecutionis.

Committee position. The Committee on Legal Affairs proposes that Parliament decide not to waive the immunity of Ilaria Salis.

Key points

  1. The Budapest Regional Court requested the waiver of immunity of Ilaria Salis, a Member of the European Parliament elected in Italy, for alleged violent attacks in Budapest in February 2023.
  2. Salis is charged with three counts of attempted battery causing life-threatening bodily harm in the framework of a criminal organisation under the Hungarian Criminal Code.
  3. The alleged offences are not related to her duties as a Member of the European Parliament under Article 8 of Protocol No 7.
  4. Parliament found that Salis was subjected to harsh detention conditions and that there is doubt about the information received, as no other participants in the Day of Honour events faced action.
  5. The underlying purpose of the proceedings appears to be to silence Salis because of her political opinions and activism, including opposing the neo-Nazi commemoration in Budapest.
  6. Parliament concluded that fumus persecutionis can be assumed, meaning there is concrete evidence of intent to undermine her political activity.
  7. Parliament decided not to waive the immunity of Ilaria Salis.

Who is affected

  • Ilaria Salis, Member of the European Parliament, whose immunity is not waived, allowing her to avoid prosecution in Hungary.
  • The Budapest Regional Court in Hungary, which requested the waiver and will not receive it.

Legal basis: Articles 8 and 9 of Protocol No 7 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union, and Article 6(2) of the Act of 20 September 1976.