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Italy: Alfredo Cospito’s statement at the review hearing for the Operation Sibilla pre-trial measures

Posted on 2023/03/23 by darknights

Alfredo Cospito’s statement at the review hearing for the Operation Sibilla pre-trial measures

First, I wanted to begin with a quote from my instigator:

“Our system has introduced that figure of mortuary isolation that is 41 bis, and that in some respects is more uncivilized even than this pharmacological mutilation. This is to say that our system does not shine with civilization.”
Carlo Nordio, March 28, 2019

This was my instigator of the struggle I started. I never thought I would get this far, I always found melodrama ridiculous, I love comedy more, but that’s how it was. After all, are we or are we not the country of melodrama? And so I have to end on a high note. When I think about it, though, something ironic is there: I am the only asshole who dies in the progressive democratic West because he is prevented from reading and studying what he wants, anarchist newspapers, anarchist books, historical and scientific journals, without neglecting his beloved comic books.

You will admit that this is paradoxical and even a bit funny, I can’t live this way, I just can’t do it, I hope those who love me will understand. I can’t do it to surrender to this non-life, it is stronger than me, maybe because I am an anarchic Abruzzese stubborn. I am certainly not a martyr, martyrs make me somewhat repulsed. Yes, I am a terrorist, I shot a man and proudly claimed that deed even though, let me tell you, the definition makes a bit of a laugh in the mouth of representatives of states that have wars and millions of dead on their conscience and sometimes, like one of our ministers, get rich from the arms trade. But what can we do, that’s the way of the world, at least until anarchy triumphs and true socialism, the antiauthoritarian and antistatalist kind, finally sees the light of day. Tough luck you will say, and so will I, for now the only glimmers of light I see are the acts of rebellion by my revolutionary brothers and sisters around the world, and they are certainly no small thing, because they are done with heart, passion and courage, no matter how scattered and scrappy they may seem. Continue reading “Italy: Alfredo Cospito’s statement at the review hearing for the Operation Sibilla pre-trial measures” →

Italy: Alfredo Cospito was transferred again to the Opera prison in Milan

Posted on 2023/03/01 by darknights

Alfredo Cospito was transferred again to the Opera prison in Milan (Feb. 27, 2022)

We learn that today, Feb. 27, anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for 131 days, was transferred from the prison medical ward located in San Paolo Hospital to the Intensive Care Service (SAI) inside Opera Prison in Milan, where he was already before being transferred to San Paolo on Feb. 11.

The February 24 hearing in the Court of Cassation, which upheld the order of detention under 41 bis, definitively ratified the state’s will to annihilate the comrade, which had already been defined in December with the outcome of the hearing in the Rome surveillance court. This latest transfer from San Paolo to Opera is perfectly in line with that will of annihilation. They intend to destroy a comrade and with him they believe they are giving a warning to the revolutionary struggle in this country. The intent, however, is in vain: the need to fight against the state and capital is ineradicable, the desire to overthrow this authoritarian social reality is inextinguishable.

DEATH TO THE STATE, ALWAYS FOR ANARCHY

The comrade’s address is:

Alfredo Cospito
Casa di Reclusione di Milano Opera
via Camporgnago 40
20141 Milano

Source: La Nemesi

Milan, Italy: Demonstration alongside Alfredo Cospito on 115th day of hunger strike against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment

Posted on 2023/02/15 - 2023/02/15 by darknights

Demonstration alongside Alfredo Cospito on 115th day of hunger strike against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment (Milan, Feb. 11, 2023)

Last night [Saturday, Feb. 11] demonstration in Milan alongside Alfredo Cospito against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment.

The demonstration started from Piazza XXIV Maggio attempting to reach Porta Romana, just before the end of the demonstration the rapid response units at the head of the procession deployed preventing them from continuing. The participants managed not to get blocked in the street and, defending themselves with what the street furniture offered, managed several times not to get closed by the increasingly agitated and fierce cops.

By the end of the day there were about ten detentions, now all released, a few dented cops, some Eni-Enjoy cars [vehicles of Eni’s car sharing service] damaged and shattered windows of real estate agencies, supermarkets and banks.

During the demonstration Alfredo Cospito was being transferred to San Paolo Hospital in Milan.

This morning, however, news broke that the Cassation Prosecutor’s Office in its indictment filed ahead of the hearing set for next February 24 asked to annul the decision of the Supervisory Court that had confirmed 41 bis for Alfredo.

Stay tuned for upcoming events!

[Taken from some ~~facebook~~ pages & republished at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/02/14/corteo-al-fianco-di-alfredo-cospito-al-115esimo-giorno-di-sciopero-della-fame-contro-il-41-bis-e-lergastolo-ostativo-milano-11-febbraio-2023/ | Photographs taken from ~~mass-media~~]

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Italy: Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24

Posted on 2023/02/13 by darknights

Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24 (Italy)

We publish two important updates concerning the transfer, which took place on February 11th, of anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and the request for annulment of the 41 bis measure by the prosecutor general at the Court of Cassation in view of the hearing to be held on February 24th at the Cassation itself following the appeal against the order of the Surveillance Court of Rome which, with the hearing of December 1st, confirmed detention under 41 bis.

We recall that on February 9th the minister of justice Carlo Nordio announced the rejection of the formal request for revocation of the 41 bis that had been made by the comrade’s lawyer. This was despite the opinion of the Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo (DNAA, ‘National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate’), which, responding to the minister who was gathering the opinions of various repressive bodies, had said it was in favour of maintaining the 41 bis or alternatively of transferring him to Alta Sicurezza 2 (AS2, ‘High Security 2’, high security sections intended mainly for anarchists and communists). Therefore, currently, as far as the revocation of the 41 bis is concerned, the only pronouncement expected is that of the Court of Cassation (which is only in Rome) with the hearing on February 24th.

Revolutionary solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries! Alfredo out from 41 bis!

Alfredo Cospito transferred from Opera prison to San Paolo hospital (Milan, February 11, 2023)

On February 11th, the 115th day of hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole, anarchist Alfredo Cospito was transferred from Opera prison (where he had been an imprisoned since January 30th in the Servizio di Assistenza Intensificata, SAI, Intensified Assistance Service) to the San Paolo hospital (also located in Milan), in one of the rooms reserved for prisoners on 41 bis in the prison medicine ward. The transfer was ordered by the Department of Penitentiary Administration following the indications of the doctors. The comrade, according to February 11th, weighs 71 kg (the starting weight at the beginning of the hunger strike was 115 kg) and is in extremely critical health condition. As reported by the doctor who examined the comrade in the morning: ‘he is at risk of cerebral oedema and potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias’.

Regarding the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure against Alfredo Cospito in view of the cassation hearing of February 24

The Agnelli family’s [multi-industry business dynasty founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the FIAT motor company which became Italy’s largest automobile manufacturer] newspapers (‘La Repubblica’ and ‘La Stampa’) revealed in this morning’s (February 12th) edition that the prosecutor general at the Court of Cassation had filed a request for the overturn of the 41 bis measure against Alfredo Cospito in view of the hearing on February 24th in Rome. This is undoubtedly good news, but it should not be overestimated. Naturally because as anarchists we have no faith in bourgeois justice, specifically because it is not uncommon for the cassation to take more radical decisions than those requested by the prosecution itself.

Finally, we cannot forget that Alfredo’s health situation is very serious and that February 24th may be too far away, which could turn out to be a terrible hoax.

We persevere in our claim for an immediate declassification of our comrade, convinced that any outcome will depend solely on the struggle to the last breath that Alfredo has put up and on the international solidarity movement that has been expressed.

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(IT) Aggiornamenti sul trasferimento di Alfredo Cospito all’ospedale San Paolo e a proposito della richiesta di annullamento del provvedimento di 41 bis da parte del procuratore generale in vista dell’udienza in cassazione del 24 febbraio
(EN) Updates about the transfer of Alfredo Cospito to the San Paolo hospital and on the prosecutor general’s request to overturn the 41 bis measure in view of the cassation hearing of February 24 (Italy)

Milan, Italy: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack against some Enjoy cars, Eni’s car sharing service, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, by Bande Anarchiche – Nucleo Guerriglia (January 30, 2023)

Posted on 2023/02/08 by darknights

Enijoy car fires in Milan

On the night of January 30th, several Enijoy cars were damaged with fire in response to Alfredo’s transfer from Sassari prison to that of Milan. This is the first action claimed, but not the first carried out, by the BANDE ANARCHICHE – NUCLEO GUERRIGLIA [‘Anarchist Bands – Guerrilla Nucleus’]. One of our comrades will die at the hands of the state, it’s our turn to take the leap. Fire to the prisons.

BANG

[Published in italian language in “Bezmotivny”, anarchist internationalist fortnightly, year III, number 3, February 6th, 2023, page 8]

Source: La Nemesi

Milan, Italy: Claim for the incendiary attack against some cars of the local police in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Posted on 2023/02/03 by darknights

Milan: Claim for the incendiary attack against some cars of the local police in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito.

In the night between 29th and 30th January some cars belonging to the local police of the municipality of Milan were burnt.

SOLIDARITY TO ALFREDO COSPITO ON HUNGER STRIKE
FREEDOM FOR ANNA, JUAN, IVAN, DAYVID

LET’S ATTACK THE STATE
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Source: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/31/rivendicazione-dellattacco-incendiario-contro-alcune-auto-della-polizia-locale-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito-milano-30-gennaio-2023/

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Italy: Anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, on the 103rd day of hunger strike, was transferred to the Opera prison in Milan (January 30, 2023)

Posted on 2023/01/31 by darknights

Alfredo Cospito was transferred from the prison of Bancali to the SAI (Intensified Assistance Service) inside the lager of Opera, in Milan. In this prison there is a hospital section for prisoners in 41 bis prison regime. The new address is:

Alfredo Cospito
Casa di Reclusione di Milano Opera
via Camporgnago 40
20141 Milano
Italy

Source: La Nemesi

Milan, Italy: Statement by anarchist Dayvid Ceccarelli in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end

Posted on 2023/01/21 by darknights

The following text is the statement read by comrade Dayvid Ceccarelli in the courtroom in the Milan courthouse on Dec. 2, 2022, during the hearing of the “Rompere il silenzio” trial, and given as the reason for not returning from the air for an hour in San Vittore, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end, starting Oct. 20, against 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment.

Statement by anarchist Dayvid Ceccarelli in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the bitter end (Milan, Dec. 2, 2022)

The reason I chose to be in this courtroom and attend this hearing today is only one. I decided to be here and use this medium, the spontaneous statement, because it is one of the few that the condition of a prisoner leaves me. I want to use it to shout out my anger at a situation that you, the men and women of the court, should know about. I am referring to the detention condition of Comrade Alfredo Cospito since May 25 subjected to the 41 bis regime. I make a premise: the act that brought Alfredo to prison and claimed by him in the courtroom is the kneecapping of Ansaldo Nucleare CEO Roberto Adinolfi as a result of the atomic disaster and subsequent massacre at the Fukushima power plant. Therefore, in my opinion, this act is rightfully part of all those lights that have illuminated for more than a century the path of many exploited and rebellious people, including me. This is the anarchy of action and for this it can only find all my complicity and solidarity. Coming to more recent times, the fact that Alfredo despite his years of imprisonment has never bent and has always with enviable constancy carried out his struggles publicly has aggravated his detention regime to the maximum expression of psychological and sensory torture that our legal system provides for: the 41 bis. A regime he has opposed by deciding since October 20 to go on hunger strike to the extreme. I do not want to waste time here asking for humanity or listing the immense restrictions that this detention provides. As Machiavelli wrote any state, whether monarchical or republican, bases its opulence, wealth and strength on crime. For me a simple person trying to make a living as an anarchist, it is unthinkable to demand justice from the latter or any of its representatives, but any action aimed at increasing the strength of Alfredo’s struggle against 41 bis can bring him closer to the need closest to him and to us: to have him healthy and in touch with his affections.

For the downgrading of Alfredo
For the end of the physical and mental cages that make possible the exploitation of ‘man on man and man on nature
For anarchy

Dayvid
[Milan, December 2, 2022]

To write to him:

Dayvid Ceccarelli
C. C. di Civitavecchia
via Aurelia nord, km 79,500, SNC
00053 Civitavecchia (RM)

Source: La Nemesi

Varedo, Italy: Attack on Lega headquarters in solidarity with Cospito

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

Striking a party like the Lega Nord means attacking institutional nationalism, racism and xenophobia. It means fighting the politics of “law and order.” Last night, Nov. 23, the windows of the Lega Nord headquarters in Varedo, a municipality in the Milan hinterland, were smashed.

This action is a concrete gesture of solidarity with Alfredo Cospito (and the other imprisoned anarchists who support him) who are fighting to the bitter end against the double torture of 41 bis and hostile life imprisonment. The latter measure, moreover, was recently reconfirmed by a decree passed by the current government, of which the Lega is a member.

No amount of repression will stop anarchist conflict.

Source: Il Rovescio

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