Since 20 October 2022, Alfredo Cospito, a 55-year-old individualist anarchist, imprisoned for years for various actions publicly claimed by himself, has been on hunger strike against the 41-bis detention regime and the life sentence to which he has been subjected for several months now.
His is not only a personal protest, but a political battle against the 41-bis and life imprisonment in general, a battle that he declares he wants to continue with different forms in case these provisions are revoked and which, otherwise, will lead forward to the extreme consequences.
Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino have been charged with participating in and organizing a series of attacks that took place in Italy with rudimentary explosives in the early 2000s, actions that caused minor damage, no deaths or injuries. Their participation in these attacks has never been directly and convincingly proven, nor has it ever been claimed by them.
However, for these facts they were initially sentenced for the crime of “common massacre”, to 15 years in prison, precisely because it was a massacre, but without victims or injured… But the crime was later further reclassified in the Supreme Court as a crime of “massacre against the security of the State”, one of the most serious crimes in the Criminal Code, which provides for the fixed penalty of life imprisonment.
The 41-bis, also known as “hard prison”, a particularly afflictive regime, born to counter the mafias in 1992 and extended in the 2000s to terrorist organizations, is a regime whose constitutionality, and the methods of its application have raised significant doubts for numerous jurists.
Alfredo Cospito is the first and only anarchist to whom such prison measures have been applied in Italy.
The documentary attempts to reconstruct the events which Alfredo Cospito, through the hunger strike, undertook, as an anarchist prisoner, a battle against the Italian State and its disproportionate use of force.
https://streeen.org/film/fino-allultimo-respiro/
https://archive.org/embed/fino-all-ultimo-respiro-until-my-last-breath-eng-subs