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Rome Police Check MEP Ilaria Salis in Hotel Before No Kings March

Police frame it as a required response to a foreign alert.

Overview

  • Ilaria Salis, who was in Rome for the No Kings protest, said officers came to her hotel room early Saturday and stayed about an hour.
  • The Questura said the visit was an act required by procedure after a foreign alert and after her name appeared in the Servizio Alloggiati hotel-guest system, with some outlets saying Germany was the source though that is not confirmed.
  • Salis said police asked if she planned to join the march and whether she had dangerous items, and she said no written report was taken before they left.
  • AVS leaders Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni called the check an intimidation tactic and asked Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi to explain why it happened.
  • Rome deployed more than 1,000 police for the protest following a recent explosion at Parco degli Acquedotti that investigators say involved two militants assembling an improvised device.