Ilaria Salis against former collaborators: "They used me for their interests"

The MEP speaks on the eve of the appeal process on the termination of the employment relationship with Valentina Dadda and François Gelmetti. "Working with them had become impossible. A very painful affair"

On the eve of the appeal process relating to the termination of the employment relationship with her two former collaborators Valentina Dadda and François Gelmetti, who obtained compensation of 300 thousand euros at first instance with a sentence now suspended, Ilaria Salis goes on the attack and, interviewed by Ansa, explains that working with them had become "impossible" after just a few months and the relationship of trust "crumbled" also because "they were trying to direct public resources towards their interests". The choice to interrupt the collaboration, Salis added, would have led to the threat of retaliation from the two former fighting companions in the Milanese movements: "They told me that they would do everything they could to destroy me".

Salis' explanations

The Avs MEP was convicted at first instance for having terminated their employment relationship without just cause "but without being able to bring my reasons to the courtroom, given that the appeal had been wrongly notified with the procedure reserved for untraceable persons, which I am evidently not", and is now waiting "serenely and confidently" for the start of the appeal process to be able to defend herself this time "very sure of my reasons". After failing to pay around 7 thousand euros in legal fees, her account was seized "which was then unblocked after two days, when I paid that money. And, again, I wonder why the normal rules for notifications were not respected in that case too".

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"A very painful story"

Salis then gave his version of the facts: "They used my mandate as their resource instead of an activity for the benefit of those who had elected me", he said, defining the whole thing as a "very painful affair" and branding as "lies, inferences and defamations" everything contained in an anonymous document signed by former workers of Ilaria Salis which talks about a "toxic climate" and "daily mobbing" spread online: "We don't know who wrote it but, if will come out, he will have to answer for it."