This morning, the end of the long strike carried out by the anarchist prisoner of the FAI, Alfredo Cospito, since October 20, 2022, in Italy, was communicated publicly.
After the last hearing held on April 18, in which the Constitutional Court left without effect the rule of imposing a life sentence on Alfredo Cospito for the attack on the Carabinieri school in Fossano, the comrade has decided to end his hunger strike.
In that instance, a favorable ruling was achieved, because the possibility of a condemnation reduction was opened, to indicate to the judges to consider the “mitigating circumstances”, after leaving without effect part of article 69 of the code that governs the adjustment of the sentences. However, this decision has no effect on the application of 41 bis.
The lawyer Flavio Rossi confirmed the news through a statement in which he expresses:
“It can be said that the fight undertaken by Cospito has achieved its preferred goals … Thanks to Cospito’s protest, to the mobilizations of the motley world of extraparliamentary political activism, to the anarchist movement, to the intellectuals who took part in support for the reasons of the protest, to the media world that allowed the transmission of these uncomfortable issues in households of people, millions of subjects, especially the new generations.”
Opening the debate on the application of the 41 bis torture regime and the massification of information about it was already a great achievement of the Cospito strike, a protest with the body as a trench, which changed the world and received the support of thousands of people and a constant flow of direct solidarity actions.
“I declare to interrupt the hunger strike,” were the words that were communicated through Alfredo’s writing, without more argument, giving notice to the jailers of the Opera prison and the Milan Court of his decision.
The recovery process will be gradual and medically controlled since the physical and neurological damage after prolonged interruption of this magnitude of eating, led to Alfredo to lose 50 kg. He suffered a heart crisis, which was covered up by the media and the prison legal structure, and lost the mobility of one foot and the sensitivity of one of his hands.
Alfredo is fulfilling a 20-year sentence for two explosives installed in the garbage containers of the Carabinieri School on June 2, 2006, an action that was later classified by the Court of Cassation as a “political massacre” in spite of not causing any fatal or injured victims, a legal figure scarcely used by the judicial apparatus. Under this case, comrade Anna Beniamino is also imprisoned.
Undoubtedly, this strike has marked the history of current anarchism, revitalizing the solidarity, which again, as it has done in other passages in history, shakes the structures of world dominance again with direct action.
Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino to the street!!
Anarchist and subversive prisoners of the world to street!!
“The only flashes of light that I see are the gestures of rebellion by my revolutionary brothers and sisters around the world and of course they are little because they are made with heart and courage… never bend, always for anarchy”
Alfredo Cospito statement extract, at revision of precautionary measures. March 23, 2023.
Source: La Zarzamora