Spoleto prison – Dark Nights

Italy: Mobilization Against the Censorship of the Mail of Anarchist Prisoner Salvatore Verspertino

Posted on 2025/10/02 - 2025/10/02 by darknights

Salvatore Verspertino is an anarchist imprisoned in Spoleto since March 2025 after his extradition from Spain to Italy. For several weeks, he has been the victim of censorship of his mail and parcels of books with at least 18 letters blocked since the end of August. In view of this situation, his supporters are calling for a massive mailing of postcards to testify to the important movement of support. In addition, they invite you to write letters to him by registered mail. In view of the informal and arbitrary blocking of book parcels, they advise sending him only one book at a time, as well as sending him magazines and newspapers of all types (the comrade likes history magazines in particular) by registered mail.

Write him : Salvatore Vespertino · Spoleto prison · Località Maiano, 10 · 06049 – Spoleto (PG) (Italy)

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/italie-mobilisation-contre-la-censure-du-courrier-du-prisonnier-anarchiste-salvatore-verspertino/

Italy: Anarchist Prisoner Ghespe Hospitalized

Posted on 2025/04/19 - 2025/04/19 by darknights

On the night of 14 to 15 February, an arrest put an end, after about two years, to the fugitive status of Salvatore “Ghespe” Vespertino. The beatings and threats he suffered in detention led him to make an extreme gesture: in order to leave the section of the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, he cut the veins on his arms and was transferred to the psychiatric hospital where he was again subjected to ill-treatment. The rule is that anyone who endangers his or her own life is subject to hospitalization and medication under duress. Ghespe specifies that his act was not carried out with a suicidal intention.

After his release from hospital, he was extradited to Italy on March 4 and locked up in Rebibbia prison in Rome. On 20 March, he was transferred to Spoleto prison and placed provisionally in the infirmary section. Following a dispute with a guard, he was subjected to another hospitalization under constraint in psychiatry. Ghespe is in a cell alone and is waiting for permission to be able to visit with his partner. His comrades invite all those in solidarity to send him letters and books (in Italian and Castilian): Salvatore Vespertino / Casa di Reclusione Spoleto / Località Maiano, 10 / 06049 – Spoleto (PG) / Italy.

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/italie-dur-parcours-carceral-pour-un-prisonnier-anarchiste/

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Italy: Anarchist Salvatore Vespertino (Ghespe) has been transferred from the Rebibbia prison to the Spoleto prison (March 20, 2025)

Posted on 2025/03/24 - 2025/03/28 by darknights

ANARCHIST SALVATORE VESPERTINO TRANSFERRED TO SPOLETO PRISON (ITALY)

Arrested in Spain on February 15th on an international arrest warrant, and extradited to Italy on March 4th, anarchist comrade Salvatore Vespertino, “Ghespe”, was first brought to Rome’s Rebibbia prison, and then transferred to Spoleto prison on March 20th.

We remind that Ghespe faces an eight-year sentence for manufacturing, possessing and carrying an explosive device, causing grievous bodily harm, and causing damage, related to the 2017 “Panico” repressive operation in Florence on charges of making the homemade explosive device found in front of the entrance of “Il Bargello” bookstore in Florence, home of CasaPound fascists.

In the early days of his detention in Spain, Ghespe was subjected to pressure and harassment by guards. At Rebibbia, the correspondence wasn’t delivered to him; visits and phone calls were not allowed until shortly before his transfer to the prison of Spoleto.

If guards and servants of the state think they can use such tricks to break our closeness, they are sorely mistaken.

NO PRISON WILL STOP OUR SOLIDARITY
FREEDOM FOR GHESPE
FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE

The address to continue writing to the comrade:

Salvatore Vespertino
Casa di Reclusione di Spoleto
Località Maiano 10
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Italy – Italia

Source: La Nemesi