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Rome, Italy: About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial + Anarchist Alfredo Cospito ‘interrupted’ his hunger strike undertaken since Oct. 20 [Corrected]

Posted on 2023/04/20 - 2023/04/28 by darknights

DN Note: We have been informed by comrades in Italy that comrade Alfredo has only interrupted his hunger strike, that the isolation that is 41 bis prevents us knowing what his real motivations are at present.

About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial (Rome, April 18, 2023)

A hearing was held today in the constitutional court on the case of Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino on charges of political massacre (art. 285 c. p.) within the Scripta Manent trial.

The current Cirielli law (year 2005, Berlusconi government) prevents mitigating factors from outweighing aggravating factors in the case of recidivism. In Alfredo Cospito’s case, in particular, this would have resulted in a certain sentence of hostile life imprisonment despite the fact that the action he and Anna are accused of did not cause any victims.

The court therefore found this provision unconstitutional. More, reading the terse press release that came out of the building, the court seems to have raised constitutionality doubts in general with respect to all those cases in which the fixed penalty is configured solely as life imprisonment.

Recall that Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike for almost 6 months precisely against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment. A struggle for which his comrade is risking his life and during which he may already have suffered permanent neurological damage. A struggle that Alfredo has always reiterated is not just for himself, but for everyone, particularly in solidarity with anarchist, communist and revolutionary prisoners. Today’s decision will have consequences not only for the fate of our comrade, but is a blow, however circumscribed, to the institution of life imprisonment in this country. Continue reading “Rome, Italy: About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial + Anarchist Alfredo Cospito ‘interrupted’ his hunger strike undertaken since Oct. 20 [Corrected]” →

Italy: Gathering at Opera prison alongside Alfredo, alongside those who fight (Milan, April 15, 2023)

Posted on 2023/04/09 by darknights

Gathering at Opera prison alongside Alfredo, alongside those who fight (Milan, April 15, 2023)

Gathering at Opera prison alongside Alfredo, alongside those who struggle. Throughout the day speeches and open microphone.

Saturday, April 15, 2023: 3 p.m., meeting in front of the prison entrance (via Camporgnago).

[Taken from some telegram channels and republished at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/08/presidio-al-carcere-di-opera-al-fianco-di-alfredo-al-fianco-di-chi-lotta-milano-15-aprile-2023/]

Italy: Important updates on the prison and health conditions of anarchist Alfredo Cospito (April 5, 2023)

Posted on 2023/04/06 by darknights

Important updates on the detention and health conditions of anarchist Alfredo Cospito

Alfredo has NOT ended his hunger strike!
The reports that have been circulating in the media these days are false and slanderous, as is now the custom in this story: he was offered milk, but Alfredo refused it. If he decides to start feeding again, he will follow the instructions given to him by his trusted doctor long ago.
Ahead of the April 18 hearing, he decided to resume supplements: potassium to stabilize his heart, vitamins to try to curb the neurological problem in his lower limbs, and protein. After the hearing at the Constitutional Court in Rome, which is called to rule on the legal legitimacy in granting or not granting mitigating factors in relation to the conviction for 285 c. p. (“massacre for the purpose of attacking the security of the State,” which only provides for life imprisonment) decreed by the Cassation as part of the Scripta Manent trial, he will decide how to proceed.

He is tired and at times struggles to maintain concentration, but he is lucid and present.
In the prison ward of San Paolo, he is NOT getting mail, not even telegrams.
They are NOT delivering books to him, not even the ones he bought through the Opera prison after authorization.
In the room where he is hospitalized he has only artificial light, it is not possible for him to distinguish day from night.
And finally, the doctors in the prison medicine department at San Paolo, who are following Alfredo, still have a provision not to talk and confront the doctor of trust, but to hand over only medical records. Which in fact prevents him from being cared for in the best way.

LET’S CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE ALONGSIDE ALFREDO!

LET US SEND HIM OUR ANGER AND LOVE, SO THAT HE MAY FEEL THAT THOSE WHO STRUGGLE ARE NEVER ALONE!

[April 5, 2023]

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Venice, Italy: Appeal ruling in the trial of anarchist Juan Sorroche: comrade sentenced to 14 years and 10 months

Posted on 2023/04/04 - 2023/04/04 by darknights

Appeal sentence for Juan (Venice, March 28, 2023)

We report that last March 28 our Juanito, sentenced in first instance to 28 years in prison for an action against the League’s headquarters in Villorba (TV) in 2018, had his sentence reduced to 14 years and 10 months by the Venice appeals court. This is still a very high sentence for an action that-beyond the intentions of the anonymous attackers-did not result in any deaths or injuries.

Full solidarity with Juan!

On this matter, see:

https://ilrovescio.info/2022/07/15/lo-stato-condanna-juan-a-ventotto-anni-di-carcere/
https://ilrovescio.info/2022/07/14/col-sangue-agli-occhi/

To write to Comrade:

Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

[Taken from https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/31/venezia-sentenza-dappello-per-juan/]

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Treviso, Italy : Northern League premises attacked by Haris Hatzimihelakis Cell/Black International (1881-2018)

Tired of being silent, tired of seeing systematic violence every day through racism, sexism and waged labor that take place in society, whose essential values are authority and profit. Sick of exploitation we see all political parties as main responsible, as they repress freedom with the state, reformist and repressive apparatus (TV, the mass-media, associations, the army, the civil protection, etc.) The state and capital are the biggest criminals, they even violate their own laws, they steal through taxes, they kill through wars and waged labor, rejections of migrants’ boats in the sea, concentration camps for immigrants in Europe and Africa, they contaminate irreversibly men, animals and the entire planet, all for their profit and power.

Let’s not forget the hypocritical complicity of society made of citizens who pretend not to see the horrors of present and past racism and nationalism. This acceptance is the pillar of totalitarianism and democracy: in the course of time the authority based on indifference, fear, apathy was able to create Gulags and nazi concentration camps, and today the concentration camps in Libya and outside our homes. It’s history that repeats itself. Continue reading “Venice, Italy: Appeal ruling in the trial of anarchist Juan Sorroche: comrade sentenced to 14 years and 10 months” →

Trento, Italy: Acquitted anarchist comrades and companion accused of the Feb. 5, 2019 arson attack against the Rovereto courthouse

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

Acquitted anarchist comrades and companion accused of the Feb. 5, 2019 arson attack against the Rovereto courthouse

The appeal hearing held on March 27 at the Trento assize court for a trial involving defendants Nico, Sasha and Poza (the last two currently being held for sentencing in the “Renata” trial), accused of setting fire to the front door of the Rovereto (Trento) courthouse, ended with acquittals for all three defendants. Every once in a while good news. As a reminder, for Operation “Renata,” Poza and Rupert are on semi-release at Spini di Gardolo prison, Sasha is under house arrest with all restrictions, and the others are awaiting execution of their sentences.

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Courthouse entrance set on fire (Rovereto, Feb. 5, 2019)

We learn from local media that on the night of February 4-5, one of the courthouse’s entrance gates, the one that allows access for prison police vehicles, was set on fire. A few meters away, on the wall of the old prison, the inscription “All free, fire to the courts” was left.

[Taken from https://anarhija.info/library/rovereto-italia-incendiato-l-ingresso-del-tribunale-05-02-2019-it]

Rovereto, Italy: Action against an SNAM vehicle in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

March 2023 / Trentino

In the week of March 13 we damaged a vehicle of the SNAM company, a multinational corporation dedicated to environmental devastation through the construction of gas pipelines, not far from Rovereto, we punctured its wheels, smashed its windows and headlights. Not far away we left an inscription NO 41 BIS ALFREDO LIBERO. This action is a small gesture of solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment. Come on comrade you are not alone! against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment! Death to the state! for Anarchy.

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Italy: Zac was transferred from Secondigliano prison to Terni prison + account coordinates to send contributions in support of comrade

Posted on 2023/04/04 by darknights

Zac was transferred to Terni and is in a cell with Juan.

To write to him:

Marco Marino
C. C. of Terni
Campore road 32
05100 Terni

To send solidarity contributions in support of the comrade:

(CORRECT DATA FOR BANKING are those that follow below and not those previously mentioned).

For those who would like to send solidarity contributions for Zac, anarchist prisoner detained in Terni for the repressive operation on Naples and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, we invite you to send money by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT07V360810518299544199741
BIC/SWIFT Code: PPAYITR1XXX
Payee: Luca d’Esposito
Description: ricarica

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Alfredo Cospito Documentary: Fino All’ Ultimo Respiro (Until My Last Breath) with English Subtitles

Posted on 2023/04/01 by darknights

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

Napoli + Pozzuoli, Italy: Raids on houses of comrades in connection to a 270 bis investigation into attacks in solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

On March 28, two houses, one in Napoli and one in Pozzuoli, were raided and four comrades were taken to the police station, in connection with a 270 bis investigation (anti-terrorist association), which was officialized in May 2022 following several house-searches.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, one comrade was placed under preventive arrest, accused of an arson attack against the Greek consulate in 2021. The prosecution contextualizes this attack within the campaign in solidarity with revolutionary Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, who at the time was on hunger strike.

The comrade has now been taken to the Secondigliano prison and is placed in the AS2 section (high security unit), while the three other comrades were released. According to the case’s files, the timing of the arrest was influenced by the relentless solidarity actions with Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist prisoner currently on hunger strike against the 41 bis regime and life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This operation is part of a witch hunt that wants to frame anarchists as a public enemy to be eliminated. In the context of the countless actions in solidarity with Alfredo in Italy and abroad, we clearly see this repressive blow as part of the state’s attempt is to stifle every and any spark of rebellion.

When faced with repression, our solidarity will never stop.

Assembly against prisons and repression

To write to Zac:

Marco Marino

c.c. di secondigliano

via Roma verso Scampia 350

80144 Napoli (Na)

Italy

For those who wish to support to Zac, anarchist prisoner locked up in Secondigliano following the repressive operation in Napoli and Pozzuoli on March 28, 2023, contributions can be sent here:

Luca D’Esposito

IBAN IT07V3608105138299544199741

BIC PPAYITR1XXX

Genoa, Italy: Arson attack on IREN group vehicles in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito & anarchist prisoners

Posted on 2023/04/01 - 2023/04/01 by darknights

Received anonymously & transmitted:

Democracy cannot allow certain thoughts to be clearly expressed, and certain words to be used with impunity, because they could make inroads among the oppressed, among the excluded. These words without stakes take on greater weight for me because they cost me and will cost me more years in prison, but it’s my way of resisting, of fighting back.

Alfredo Cospito (January 2021)

On the night of 31 March we attacked some vehicles of the IREN group with fire, a leading company in Italy in the district heating service, operating in the production and distribution of electricity and technological services. IREN is a young company but with a veteran entrepreneurial posture in line with all the other criminal multinationals such as ENI and Benetton that profit from the destruction and looting of territories around the planet. This was enough to put the IREN group in our sights, if we then add, in recent weeks’ news, that IREN has entered into agreements with the Israeli Mekorot water company which implements water apartheid from the Palestinian people, then the choice of attacking her was more than spot on. Our thoughts go to Alfredo who, with his struggle, a true manifesto of dignity and freedom, gave us the strength and courage to put ourselves on the line. May the flames of this attack warm his body after more than five months of hunger strike. We close this article with a clarification: we do not participate in the dichotomy that the regime’s politicians and media are promoting, that of a struggle between an anarchist against the state. Anarchists declared war on authority almost two centuries ago, certainly not on October 20, 2022 – the start of Alfredo’s hunger strike. You must understand that if Alfredo were to die or remain alive, if Alfredo were free or would remain a prisoner, we have already declared ourselves your bitter enemies some time ago and we will continue to be however things go.

WARM THOUGHTS TO ANNA, IVAN AND JUAN.

REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY TO ALL ANARCHIST PRISONERS AROUND THE WORLD!

LONG LIVE BLACK INTERNATIONAL!

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

DEATH TO THE STATE!