After a spectacular mobilization of the anarchist movement in his favor, Alfredo Cospito was transferred Monday to a penitentiary establishment in Milan.
by Allan Kaval (Rome, correspondent)
Between a handful of anarchist activists and a government which has restored the authority of the State its raison d’être, the dying body of a condemned terrorist relaunches a recurring debate in Italy on the conditions of detention of certain prisoners. After more than a hundred days of a hunger strike launched to protest against the particularly hard prison regime to which he has been submitted since the spring of 2022, Alfredo Cospito was transferred Monday, January 30, from the High Security district of Sassari prison, in Sardinia, towards a penitentiary establishment in Milan, where it can be treated.
After a spectacular mobilization of the anarchist movement in its favor in recent days, the “cospito case” continues to divide. Some denounce his hunger strike as a “blackmail towards the State”, such as the former judge Piercamillo Davigo. Others claim that his survival be guaranteed, going so far as to appeal to the pope, like the former senator and under-secretary to the Ministry of Justice Luigi Manconi in the columns of the Stampa.
Recent scattered actions launched against symbols of the Italian state, in the peninsula and abroad, have also given a new opportunity to the government dominated by the far right of Giorgia Meloni to assert her security posture . “The State does not arrange with those who threaten it,” said the presidency of the council in a statement, excluding the suspension of the prison regime applied to Alfredo Cospito.
threats and cocktails Molotov
A series of recent attacks attributed to Italian and European anarchists is involved. As a weakened echo of political radicality belonging to a now distant time, we reported in Italy the sending of threatening letters accompanied by pistol balls against a magistrate and a local newspaper. Two police stations were also targeted by Molotov cocktails on the night of Sunday to Monday in Rome and Milan while demonstrations of modest dimension were organized in several Italian cities, including Rome, where clashes with the police have had Place.
Signs of solidarity of the European anarchist movement, the car of an Italian diplomat was burned down in Berlin, while in Barcelona the Italian consulate suffered minor damage accompanied by anarchist slogans. Described as attacks by the executive, which made the “cospito case” the main subject on the agenda of the Council of Ministers on Monday, these punctual actions contributed to trap the debate launched by the hunger strike of the prisoner for isolation.
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