Salis: account foreclosure for legal costs, the defense replies

The lawsuit with the two former collaborators

The Milan Labor Court at first instance sentenced Salis to pay around 150 thousand euros each to former assistants Valentina Dadda and François Gelmetti, who had sued her for having been fired in 2025 without just cause. The MEP appealed and, with two separate appeals, also requested the suspension of the execution of the sentence. Both requests were rejected in August, with him ordered to pay legal costs. According to Il Giornale, Salis did not pay the approximately 7 thousand euros owed and so the lawyers of his former assistants triggered the procedure of seizure by third parties of the MEP's current account, to which the salary for his mandate in the European Parliament is also credited. The hearing for the appeal in the main case is scheduled for October.

Lawyer Ilaria Salis: "There was no refusal to pay"

Salis' lawyer, Gaspare Emanuele Trizzino, commenting on the news, specified that "there was no refusal to pay on the part of the Honorable Member" and that "no request for payment was fully brought to his attention". "Despite being the owner of a digital domicile regularly registered in the National Index of Digital Domiciles (INAD), Salis has not received either the writ of injunction or the writ of seizure at that address and, to date, he is not aware of the exact amount claimed nor of the details necessary to make the payment. On the contrary, he had instructed the defenders to contact the counterparties in order to propose a settlement in installments of the sums possibly due", he reported. The lawyer then explained that "it is appropriate to specify that the sentence for the costs to which the seizure refers has been challenged and will be reviewed by the Court of Appeal of Milan next October". "The Honorable Salis has therefore never shied away from her possible obligations and is available to pay whatever is actually due following the outcome of the ongoing proceedings, as soon as the amount and details necessary for payment are communicated to her", he concluded.