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Italy: Update on anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end

Posted on 2022/12/20 by darknights

Alfredo is in fair condition, is very lucid, and was expecting a rejection by the surveillance court of Rome [the verdict of the December 1st hearing at the surveillance court was announced on the 19th]. He does not despair that he will still be successful in his battle. In any case, he lets it be known that he intends to go on until death. Since the prospect of life imprisonment has been avoided for now – at least postponed – with the decision of the Turin court of appeal on December 5th [also on December 19th was held in Turin an appeal hearing at which the judges drew up the documents to be sent to the constitutional court], Alfredo reiterates that he will end his hunger strike only if he will be declassified from 41 bis prison regime.

He is aware of the solidarity mobilisation through news reports, when actions and initiatives impose this level of coverage on the regime media. The newspapers, on the other hand, come to him with pages cut out, holes that have become increasingly frequent in recent weeks.

At the moment, a few letters, telegrams and postcards seem to get through, unlike the months before his struggle, when everything written to him ended up being confiscated. Particularly with regard to telegrams, which seem to be the communications that most frequently pass the censors’ meshes, it is important to remember that these must be individual and must contain the sender’s name and address at the bottom.

We remind the address:

Alfredo Cospito
C. C. “G. Bacchiddu”
strada provinciale 56 n. 4
Località Bancali
07100 Sassari
Italy

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Hunger Strike, Italy, Update

Foligno, Italy: Windows of temporary employment agency Umana smashed in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike

Posted on 2022/12/20 by darknights

Hammering against temporary employment agency in Foligno

On a mid-December night, the windows of the UMANA temporary employment agency in Foligno were smashed with hammers. Action in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

We chose a temporary agency because we are disgusted by administrators of human flesh, whether they are biological appendages attached to a bunch of keys, like those who torture our comrade, or administrators of labour for the hungry jaws of capitalism.

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Employment Agency, Foligno, Hunger Strike, Italy, UMANA, Window Smashing

Grand Est, France: Attack on nuclear infrastructure in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/12/20 - 2022/12/20 by darknights

In May of this year, the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito was transferred to the 41bis isolation regime. The torture method of sensory deprivation aims to break his rebellious spirit and silence him. In order to obtain the removal of his isolation conditions, our comrade started an unlimited hunger strike on October 20. On December 1st – on the 42nd day of the hunger strike – a review of the conditions of detention decided to continue the torture procedure. If the Italian fascist state persists in its practice of isolation, Alfredo may not see the end of this year. But his death will not be a suicide: it will be the murder under torture of a vengeful political justice.

Let’s prevent this murder
The most passionate form of revolutionary solidarity is to continue the struggles for which our compasses are behind bars. It was in this spirit that on December 11, during a night-time sabotage action, we went to a pylon of the Fessenheim-Paris EHV line and unscrewed the bolts. The pylon is still standing, but its statics are clearly compromised. Let our revolutionary anger act in alliance with nature, and let a winter storm do the rest!

Alfredo has always been able to link the question of social revolution with that of ecology and, through his words and deeds, connect the ecocidal plundering of our planet with the struggle against the dominant powers, exploitation and oppression. In his statement on the shooting in the knee of the Italian nuclear industry leader Roberto Adinolfi (ansaldo nucleare) and later in various statements of the procè in the Scripta Manent case, he described the need to anchor a revolutionary perspective in the anti-nuclear movement. In a valuable contribution to the debate, he also spoke in 2018 about the struggle against the CIGÉO project for the burial of nuclear waste in the French village of Bure in the Meuse. Referring to the idea of diversity of tactics practiced there, he suggests an intensification of the forms of struggle chosen. This is one of the contributions that were later used to justify the hardening of his detention conditions. Continue reading “Grand Est, France: Attack on nuclear infrastructure in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Ansaldo Nucleare, Bure, CIGEO, Electricity Network Sabotage, Fessenheim-Paris EHV line, France, Grand Est, High-Voltage Pylon, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), International Solidarity, Isolation, Italy, Kneecapping, Nuclear Industry, Nuclear Waste, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Operation Scripta Manent, Roberto Adinolfi, RTE, Sabotage

Italy: The surveillance court of Rome rejected the appeal against the 41 bis measure for anarchist Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2022/12/20 by darknights

December 19, 2022, 61 days after the start of the hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole by anarchist Alfredo Cospito.

The decision concerning the appeal against the 41 bis detention order for anarchist Alfredo Cospito has just been announced: the surveillance court of Rome rejected it. The comrade will remain in 41 bis. This is not the moment of despondency, it is the moment of anger. You will pay dearly for it. Today as yesterday: death to the State, to the capital, to all authority.

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Hunger Strike, Italy, Rome

Rome, Italy: Damage and fires in the Appio Latino neighborhood in solidarity with anarchist Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end

Posted on 2022/12/19 by darknights

We learn from the media that on December 18, in Rome’s Appio Latino neighborhood, shortly after midnight unknown persons damaged a number of banking facilities, including a post office-specifically, at least one postamat was set on fire and some glass windows were smashed-by spilling into the street and also setting fire to some garbage cans. According to media reports, the damage and fires occurred, very quickly, between Macedonia Street, Via Latina and Roselle Square. Murals were left on some of the buildings: “Alfredo libero,” “No 41 bis,” in reference to Alfredo Cospito, an imprisoned anarchist on an all-out hunger strike against the 41 bis prison regime (in which he has been imprisoned since May 5) and the hostile life sentence (which is likely to be the final sentence for the comrade at the end of the Scripta Manent trial, which has reached its last trial hearings).

The repressive forces, which arrived shortly after the events, were unable to stop anyone as the unknown persons had already left the area.

[Images are taken from regime media].

Source: La Nemesi

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Appio Latino, arson attack, Bank Attack, Graffiti, Hunger Strike, Italy, Operation Scripta Manent, Rome, Spray Attack, Window Smashing

Madrid, Spain: Sabotage with fire to an electric car charger. Solidarity for Alfredo Cospito.

Posted on 2022/12/19 by darknights

Last weekend, December 10 and 11, an electric car charger was set on fire in Madrid.

Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito.

Source: barcelona.indymedia

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, arson attack, Electric Car Charging Point, Electric Cars, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Madrid, Spain

Italy: A bug was found at the Circolo Anarchico “La Faglia” in Foligno

Posted on 2022/12/19 by darknights

On the evening of Dec. 16, a bug was discovered inside the Circolo Anarchico “La Faglia” in Foligno, which has been open since October this year. The device, which was connected to the electrical system of the space, consisted of a microphone, two antennas, a SIM card, a memory card and was also equipped with a battery. All housed inside a power outlet.

We are not surprised by these attentions, to which we have been accustomed for years, which have been repeated throughout the Spoleto Circolaccio experience, yet the nausea never goes away toward those who spend their lives listening to the affairs of others.

Our thoughts, however, go with affection to Alfredo Cospito who is dedicating his life, as he always did, until his last breath, to freedom.

Source: La Nemesi

Continue reading “Italy: A bug was found at the Circolo Anarchico “La Faglia” in Foligno” →

Posted in Social ControlTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Audio Surveillance, Circolo Anarchico "La Faglia", Foligno, Hunger Strike, Italy, Spoleto, Surveillance, Surveillance Device

Atlanta, USA: Banner Drop In Solidarity With 5 Arrested Forest Defenders Charged With Domestic Terrorism

Posted on 2022/12/19 - 2022/12/19 by darknights

5 people have been arrested and charged with Domestic Terrorism for their alleged connection to Defend The Atlanta Forest movement in USA. These arrests were notoriously brutal, included the deployment of chemical weapons repeatedly, and placed unfounded charges against them in an effort to torture, terrorize, and brutalize.

We want every prison to burn, every prisoner to be free, and the violence of the state to be destroyed. We must stand in unflinching solidarity with all those arrested, and be committed to absolute resistance to any current or future state investigation, no matter what it requires of us. Anything less is unconscionable.

Send them mail here:

Francis Carroll – #X2210240
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

Nicholas Dean Olson – #X2210239
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

Serena Hertel – #X2210242
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

Arieon Robinson – #X2210252
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

Voiselle Leonardo – #X2210238
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032 Continue reading “Atlanta, USA: Banner Drop In Solidarity With 5 Arrested Forest Defenders Charged With Domestic Terrorism” →

Posted in Eco Struggle, Social ControlTagged 'Domestic Terrorism', 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Atlanta, Atlanta 5 Forest Defenders, Atlanta Forest, Atlanta Police Foundation, Banner Drop, Dekalb County Jail, Georgia, Giannis Michailidis, Hunger Strike, International Solidarity, Ivan Alocco, Jessica Reznicek, Juan Sorroche, Marius Mason, Toby Shone, USA, Wells Fargo

Athens, Greece: Event – Update For the anarchonihilist Alfredo Cospito (Hunger strike from 20/10) EN/GR

Posted on 2022/12/19 - 2022/12/19 by darknights

Update on 41bis isolation in Italy,
by the anarchist comrade Spyros Mandylas – Anarchist Hangout Nadir

Presentation of the cases against which Alfredo Cospito has been accused:

Shooting of Ansaldo Nuclear CEO Roberto Adinolfi by “Olga Cell FAI/IRF”(2012),
Operation “Scripta Manent”(2016),
Operation “Sibilla”(2021).

Intervention by letter from the anarchist comrade from Sardinia Omar Nioi
in the Sibilla repressive operation, by the anarchist newspaper Vetriolo.

Intervention by letter from the anarchist comrade from Sardinia Omar Nioi
sentenced in the Scripta Manent trial”

(There will be translation at the event).

“Go on, comrades:
there is a whole world to be demolished!”
Monday, December 19
7 p.m.
A.S.O.E.E.

Organization:
Anarchist Hangout Nadir(Thessaloniki)
Translation project blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net
Comrades

Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Event – Update For the anarchonihilist Alfredo Cospito (Hunger strike from 20/10) EN/GR” →

Posted in GeneralTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Steki Nadir, Anarcho-Nihilist, Ansaldo Nucleare, Athens, Blessed Is The Flame, Event, Greece, Hunger Strike, Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), Informal Anarchist Federation - International Revolutionary Front (FAI/IRF), Italy, Kneecapping, Olga Cell - FAI/IRF, Omar Nioi, Operation Scripta Manent, Operation Sibilla, Presentation, Roberto Adinolfi, Spyros Mandylas, Thessaloniki, Update, Vetriolo, ΑΣΟΕΕ (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Italy: Anna Beniamino interrupts hunger strike

Posted on 2022/12/19 - 2022/12/19 by darknights

We learn by phone call that in the evening of today, Wednesday, December 14, Anna interrupts the hunger strike she started 38 days ago at the side of Alfredo, who is imprisoned in 41 bis prison regime.

At the end of the strike Anna has lost 13 kilos, with a blood pressure of 50 at the minimum, 80 at the maximum. Some values of her liver profile exceed the parameters considered acceptable from a health point of view. In the last period, she has been offered hospitalisation several times by the prison, which she has always refused.

The lives of our comrades in prison are at stake in this struggle. It is up to all of us anarchists and revolutionaries to ensure that it is safeguarded. This applies all the more to Alfredo, now on his 56th day of hunger strike and whose condition is becoming increasingly critical awaiting the decision of the Surveillance Court of Rome [on December 1st, a hearing was held at the Rome Surveillance Court on the appeal against Alfredo Cospito’s 41 bis detention measure, the outcome of which has not yet been announced by the court].

Posted in Prison StruggleTagged 41 bis, 41 bis = Torture, Alfredo Cospito, Anarchist Prisoners, Anna Beniamino, Hunger Strike, Italy

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