Following requests from both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the defense lawyers, there will be a Cassation hearing against the appeal sentence which, in June 2023, had re-determined the sentences for Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino, sentencing them respectively to 23 years and 17 years and 9 months in prison.
The prosecution had requested life imprisonment, with one year’s solitary confinement during the day, for Alfredo and 27 years and 1 month for Anna. Less than two weeks after the appeal sentence, which had recognized the “low seriousness” of the Fossano explosive attack, now officially defined as a “political massacre”, the public prosecutor’s office had lodged an appeal in cassation, asking that this type of mitigating circumstance not be recognized.
The hearing will take place on April 24, 2024. We remind you that on March 19 there will be another hearing at the Court of Cassation, which will once again rule on the 41-bis imposed on Alfredo.
Alfredo is in state custody due to his participation in actions claimed by the Informal Anarchist Federatiion (FAI). Specifically the kneecapping of Roberto Adinolfi, executive of the Italian nuclear power company Ansaldo Nucleare. Cospito also received an additional 20 year term for the 2006 bombing of a Carabinieri cadet barracks near Turin. His partner Anna Beniamino was also convicted for the action. The attack was claimed under the acronym Animal and Tremendous Revolt/Informal Anarchist Federation (RAT/FAI) in a letter sent to the Corriere della Sera.
source: Secours Rouge