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Berlin, Germany: Fire of Solidarity for Alfredo Cospito by Autonomous Cell ‘Anna Maria Mantini’

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

In the early hours of 31 October, we set fire to a van belonging to the GA-Tec company. This company for building and facilities management technology is 100% owned by the Sodexo group and runs prisons itself (in England and Chile) and is a big profiteer of the prison industry. The van burnt out in the Lichtenberg district, where a number of cars have been burnt recently.

Not only to cause damage to the company, but out of an inner motivation we could not help but make such an attack against our oppressors. The news that the comrade Alfredo Cospito is being tortured in the so-called “41bis” regime of justice by the Italian state leaves us anything but indifferent. Alfredo is not only to be muzzled, his existence is on the verge of extinction. We unite with his militant push. Together with his hunger strike, we break the total isolation. We also call on all other comrades to take direct action now and decisively shorten the reaction time of the anarchist international struggle. To snatch Alfredo Cospito from the regime of extermination and unleash a revolutionary force in the coordinated offensive. Not to live in prison or in the isolation regime means a great responsibility. In the struggle combined with hunger strikes, we cannot wait until the prisoner also has to go on thirst strike.

Militant campaigns triggered by hunger strikes can open up a substantial anti-capitalist perspective. Metropolises can be transformed into jungles where the infrastructure of the ruling classes could be completely destroyed if its inhabitants decided to do so. Prison profiteers, arms companies, police contractors, construction corporations – their glass facades, vehicles and data lines that are encroaching on the habitats of our class in increasingly dense urban centers or being used to try and protect themselves in their own sanctuaries. Just like how the GA-Tec/Sodexo van we attacked was engulfed in a high-rise precariat housing estate, it could become commonplace for the logistics of power as the intensifying class antagonisms and the militant campaigns of the anarchist milieu develop a common approach.

Solidarity also to Juan Sorroche and Ivan, who immediately joined Alfredo’s struggle and are also on hunger strike.

Freedom for them and also for Giannis Michailidis, Claudio Lavazza and Toby Shone.

Victory to the Mapuche struggle!

Death to the state, long live anarchy!

Autonomous Cell “Anna Maria Mantini*”

Source: de.indymedia

Via & Translated by Abolition Media

DN Note: Anna Maria Mantini was a militant of the Proletarian Armed Nuclei [Nuclei Armati Proletari], killed in Rome, 8th July 1975, in a raid by the anti-terrorist squad.

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Maria Mantini, arson attack, Autonomous Cell "Anna Maria Mantini", Berlin, Claudio Lavazza, GA Tec, Germany, Giannis Michailidis, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Mapuche, Prison Profiteer, Proletarian Armed Nuclei [Nuclei Armati Proletari], Sodexo, Toby Shone, Vehicle Burning

Germany: Graffiti in Solidarity with Alfredo in the harbour of Hamburg

Posted on 2022/11/13 - 2022/11/15 by darknights

Graffiti in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito in the harbour of Hamburg. 41bis = Torture – Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito! Freedom for all! (A)

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg Harbour, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Italy

Milan, Italy: Occupied the crane of the construction site of La Scala Theatre in solidarity with anarchists Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

Occupied the crane of the construction site of La Scala Theatre in solidarity with anarchists Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco on hunger strike against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole (Milan, Italy, November 6, 2022)

Since the early hours of this morning, two comrades have been occupying the crane at the construction site of La Scala Theatre in Milan in solidarity with the hunger strike by Alfredo, Juan and Ivan against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

We will hold a gathering as of now in support of the action in Piazza della Scala until the comrades come down. We invite you to join us in large numbers! The day is still long!

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anna Beniamino, Banner Drop, Hunger Strike, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Milan

Rome, Italy: Streets blocked by anarchists for 3 hours in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Anna, Juan & Ivan. Clashes with cops outside Regina Coeli prison (12th November)

Posted on 2022/11/13 - 2022/11/13 by darknights

Today (12 November), the main street of the center of Rome was completely blocked for more then 3 hours in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Anna, Juan and Ivan. The clashes started in Trastevere, when 400 anarchists tried to go in front of the prison of Regina Coeli. Their Fight Is Our Fight!

DN Note: Update from Radiofragmata twitter account.

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Demo, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Regina Coeli prison, Road blockade, Rome, Trastevere

Italy: An important update regarding anarchist Alfredo Cospito: the re-examination hearing for the 41 bis measure will be held on December 1

Posted on 2022/11/13 - 2022/12/02 by darknights

Update on the situation of Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike since October 20 against the 41 bis and life sentence without possibility of parole.

Alfredo has lost 16 kilos to date and is in good health overall. He is not yet taking any food supplements. We also inform that the re-examination of the 41 bis measure against him has been set for December 1st. The hearing is very important as it will have to rule on the legitimacy of the decision of the previous minister of justice Marta Cartabia to apply the 41 bis prison regime against our comrade.

Note of “La Nemesi”: The hearing will almost certainly be held at the surveillance court in Rome, which has sole jurisdiction over the decision to ratify or terminate detention under the 41 bis regime. 

[Translated by: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/08/an-important-update-regarding-anarchist-alfredo-cospito-the-re-examination-hearing-for-the-41-bis-measure-will-be-held-on-december-1-italy/]

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(IT) Un aggiornamento importante riguardo l’anarchico Alfredo Cospito: il 1° dicembre si terrà l’udienza di riesame per il provvedimento di 41 bis
(EN) An important update regarding anarchist Alfredo Cospito: the re-examination hearing for the 41 bis measure will be held on December 1 (Italy)

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Hunger Strike, Isolation, Italy, Marta Cartabia, Repression, Torture

Anzola dell’Emilia, Italy: Responsibility claim for the arson attack against some MARR trucks in solidarity with anarchists Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco and Anna Beniamino

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

Responsibility claim for the arson attack against some MARR trucks in solidarity with anarchists Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco and Anna Beniamino on hunger strike against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole (Anzola dell’Emilia, Italy, November 5, 2022)

Anzola dell’Emilia (Bologna).

On the night of November 5, 2022, we set fire to some MARR trucks. MARR is a company that has been involved in the supply of meals to prisons and deportation centres for immigrants for years. Its profit is based on the imprisonment of thousands of people. What we have done is for all the shitty meals they deliver.

It is for all the people who fall ill because of unhealthy food in the structures supplied by this company.

And it is especially for those who have chosen to struggle in prison, precisely by giving up food.

WE ARE WITH ALFREDO COSPITO, ANARCHIST IMPRISONED IN THE 41 BIS SECTION OF THE BANCALI PRISON IN SARDINIA, ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE OCTOBER 20 AGAINST 41 BIS AND LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.

WE ARE WITH IVAN ALOCCO, JUAN SORROCHE AND ANNA BENIAMINO, IMPRISONED ANARCHISTS WHO ADHERE TO THE HUNGER STRIKE, JOINING ALFREDO’S FIGHT (we learn of Anna’s choice after our action).

Their struggle is also ours. Ours is theirs.

For the freedom of everyone, against prisons and those who profit from their existence! Against 41 bis and life imprisonment without possibility of parole!

A FIGHTING EMBRACE TO THE COMRADES ON HUNGER STRIKE AND TO THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

[Originally published in italian here: https://infernourbano.altervista.org/anzola-dellemilia-bologna-incendiati-camion-della-marr/ | English translation published here: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/09/responsibility-claim-for-the-arson-attack-against-some-marr-trucks-in-solidarity-with-anarchists-alfredo-cospito-juan-sorroche-ivan-alocco-and-anna-beniamino-on-hunger-strike-against-41-bis/]

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Anzola dell’Emilia, arson attack, Bologna, Hunger Strike, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, MARR, Prison Profiteer, Vehicle Burning

Grugliasco, Italy: Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a mobile phone mast in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41 bis

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

TO BE DIFFUSED:
NOVEMBER 3, IN GRUGLIASCO (TURIN)
5G ANTENNA SABOTAGED WITH FIRE
ALFREDO COSPITO OUT FROM 41 BIS
41 BIS = TORTURE!
FOR ANARCHY

[Published in italian here: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/10/rivendicazione-dellattacco-incendiario-contro-unantenna-per-la-telefonia-mobile-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito-in-sciopero-della-fame-grugliasco-3-novembre-2022/ | Translated into english by: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/10/responsibility-claim-for-the-arson-attack-on-a-mobile-phone-mast-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito-on-hunger-strike-grugliasco-italy-november-3-2022/]

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, 5G, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Antenna Attack, arson attack, Grugliasco, Hunger Strike, Incendiary Attack, Italy, Turin

Italy: Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, alongside Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco, against 41 bis

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, alongside Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco, against 41 bis (Italy, November 7, 2022)

Here the translation of the declaration about the beginning of the hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino, imprisoned in Rebibbia women’s prison in Rome, in solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito, who went on hunger strike, indefinitely undertaken since October 20th, against the 41 bis prison regime to which he was transferred on May 5th and against life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The comrade started her hunger strike on November 7th. We recall that comrades Juan Sorroche (in Terni prison, since October 25th) and Ivan Alocco (in the French prison of Villepinte, since October 27th) also went on hunger strike for the same reasons. Revolutionary solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco, Anna Beniamino and all imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries.

On October 20th, in the prison of Bancali (Sassari, in Sardinia), Alfredo Cospito began an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life sentence without parole.
The regime 41 bis was assigned to him from May this year, being accused of maintaining relations through correspondence and editorial activity with the anarchist movement through public writings and interventions from the Maximum Security section where he had been locked up for years.

Life imprisonment without parole is likely to be the outcome of the appeal – made by the cassation ruling of July 2022 of the Scripta Manent trial – for the recalculation of the sentence passed as 285 of the penal code, “political massacre”, for a double attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano, signed by FAI-RAT [Federazione Anarchica Informale – Rivolta Anonima e Tremenda, ‘Informal Anarchist Federation – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt’].
The sentence for 285 c. p. constitutes the keystone of an accusatory architecture which established the existence of a “subversive association with terrorist aims” (made up of only three promoters and with a sporadic existence, to overcome contradictions due to the outcomes of previous trials) and the activity of “instigating” through anarchist blogs and newspapers published over the past 20 years by those convicted.
In short, a monstrous sentence where one is head/factotum of an “association” with uncertain contours, as well as instigators and perpetrators of a “massacre” that never happened and above all never defended as such. That is, as has been repeatedly stated in times past, revolutionary violence is defended by anarchists, and by me among them; massacre is not.
What the court papers and the directives of the secret services and prevention apparatuses variously call internal subversion or terrorism and comes to be enclosed in a series of offences (subversive association, massacre, devastation and looting…) taken verbatim from the Rocco Code still in force, are actually pieces of the revolutionary tension and the quest for freedom and social justice. That the latter and the justice administered by the courts are antithetical worlds is no news to anyone with a minimum of knowledge of the historical and political history of movements, ideas and practices that are refractory to the status quo: the bigger and more complex the accusation, the more difficult it is to bring events back to reality. Along these lines, one finds oneself a defendant in trials with farcical “truths”, where it is the political identity, not the facts, that constructs the crime that buries you alive. Continue reading “Italy: Declaration of start of hunger strike by anarchist Anna Beniamino in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, alongside Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco, against 41 bis” →

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 'political massacre', 'Subversive Association', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Carabinieri students school, Fossano, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation – Anonymous and Tremendous Revolt, Isolation, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Operation Scripta Manent, Rebibbia Prison, Repression, Revolutionary violence, Rivolta Anonima Tremenda - Federazione Anarchica Informale, Rocco Code, Torture

Trambileno, Italy: Incendiary attack against a mobile telecommunications antenna in solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/11/13 by darknights

We learn from the media, in particular the local Trentino media, that on the night of November 5 a mobile telecommunications antenna located in the municipality of Trambileno, in the province of Trento, was set on fire. On the structure was left the writing ‘Alongside Alfredo on hunger strike. No 41 bis’, in reference to the hunger strike indefinitely undertaken, starting on October 20, by anarchist Alfredo Cospito against the 41 bis prison regime to which he was transferred on May 5 and against life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Subsequently, two other imprisoned comrades, Juan Sorroche and Ivan Alocco – respectively starting on the 25th in the Terni prison and on the 27th in the Villepinte prison, in France – also began a hunger strike in solidarity with the comrade.

 

Currently, apart from the wall writing found by the repressive forces on the structure, no claim or communication about the attack has been published.

[Image taken from regime media | Informative text published in italian and english here https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/06/attacco-incendiario-contro-un-ripetitore-di-telefonia-mobile-in-solidarieta-con-lanarchico-alfredo-cospito-in-sciopero-della-fame-trambileno-5-novembre-2022/ & https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/06/incendiary-attack-against-a-mobile-telecommunications-antenna-in-solidarity-with-anarchist-alfredo-cospito-on-hunger-strike-trambileno-italy-november-5-2022</

Via: Act for freedom now!

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Antenna Attack, Hunger Strike, Incendiary Attack, Italy, Ivan Alocco, Juan Sorroche, Telecommunication, Trambileno, Trento

UK: Declaration of Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito from anarchist comrade Toby Shone

Posted on 2022/11/12 - 2022/11/12 by darknights

“By observing the force of the rainfall, one can know the size of the dragon, and by observing the flourishing of the blossoms, one can know the depths of the pond.” Traditional saying

News has reached me of the isolation torture inflicted on Alfredo Cospito who has been hit with the 41bis regime of the Italian State and placed into the hell of the White Cells.

My heart aches to hear of the conditions he is suffering and I am in solidarity with his indefinite hunger strike.

After listening to the advice of my comrades due to my health status, I will refuse to eat every Wednesday and Sunday as my participation in the campaign. If I choose to extend my strike I will do so. Also since the G4S corporation is attempting to force me to provide slave labour for the workshops of despicable capitalists who contract such exploitative services at the expense of their workers, I refuse to comply. I dedicate these efforts, however small, to our dear Alfredo.

An embrace to everyone, inside and outside…

With the deer, the boar, the owl, and the jaguar…

A BLACK DECEMBER APPROACHES

Toby Shone
G4S Parc, UK
9 November 2022

PS A little greeting to the comrades who lit up Parc with their fireworks on 20/10. Likewise to all those who attended the demo in Bristol for my case on 30/10.

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Black December, FUCK G4S!, G4S, HMP Parc, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Italy, Toby Shone, UK, Wales

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