And she just can’t accept the verdict that forces her to shell out more than 300,000 euros. Ilaria Salis in an interview with Repubblica tries to defend herself but with very poor results. Read it to believe it: – “I never received the notifications,” she explains, stating that she learned about the trial after the conviction. “The first-instance judgment did not go into the merits, it did not ascertain that there was no just cause – Salis continues -. It is up to the employer, in these cases, to present the evidence. And the evidence exists, but I could not present it: I was absent because I knew nothing about that proceeding and the hearings.”
“In civil cases, it is the opposing parties who must notify the start of the proceedings. They chose to do so at my residential address in Italy, but I am often away,” she says, emphasizing that when the judicial officer called, she was not home “and after that attempt, there were no others.” “They could have sent me a certified email or contacted me through institutional channels, instead they used the procedure for untraceable persons, conducting the trial in absentia. But I am an MEP, it’s a bit difficult for me to be untraceable…” Now, for the appeal, she has prepared over a hundred pages to reconstruct “what I could not say in the first instance.”
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“I am confident that clarity will be made,” she adds, highlighting that “it was neither a sudden nor an unmotivated withdrawal.” Salis recounts that she had known the two former collaborators for a long time, but over time the bond “wore down until it broke.” “There had been serious work defaults – she continues – for weeks they did not respond to emails, despite it being one of their main activities. We no longer spoke to each other, and yet in politics, the relationship of trust is fundamental.” Salis rejects the accusation of having fired them without notice: “I sought a confrontation, I proposed to them to find a solution.” “The appeal will clarify everything,” Salis concludes.
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