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The Cassation rejects the appeal against the 41bis, Cospito: "Keep on fighting, I will die soon"

2023-02-25T06:50:48.101Z


"I hope someone after me will continue the fight." Anarchists in the square: "Assassins". Nordio: we take note of the decision (ANSA)


Alfredo Cospito, the anarchist leader who has been on hunger strike for almost four months to protest against the 41bis, remains in a harsh prison regime.

This was decided by the judges of the Cassation by rejecting the appeal of the defense against the decision of the supervisory court of Rome, after a long deliberation.

A decision that sparked the anger of the anarchists who had gathered in Piazza Cavour in front of the Palazzaccio - protected by imposing security measures - to await the verdict: 'Assassins, you will be responsible for everything that happens', they shouted menacingly. And Cospito himself also made his voice heard from Milan: "I hope that someone after me will continue the fight" he said to the doctors who follow him constantly, saying he is sure he will die "soon".

The demonstrators were monitored by dozens of police officers, even in civilian clothes, who however always kept their distance from the demonstrators and Piazza Cavour continued its regular life despite the presence of about twenty police vehicles, carabinieri and finance guard.

Cospito's lawyer, Flavio Rossi Albertini, also passed the presidency, who defined the decision of the Cassation as a defeat of the law.

"After reading the indictment by Attorney General Gaeta, we thought that the law could once again illuminate this dark affair. But tonight's decision proves that we were wrong. Reading the favorable opinions of the Dnaa, Dda and Dap sent to the Minister - he added - we understood that the ministerial decision had been political and not legal".

Cospito therefore remains at 41bis and for the moment is still hospitalized in the penitentiary ward of the San Paolo hospital in Milan, where in recent days he had resumed taking supplements because he wanted to be clear-headed precisely in view of the decision of the Cassation.

Now it will be necessary to understand what his next moves will be considering that even the Bioethics Committee - to which the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio had turned precisely to get an opinion on the possibility of intervening with forced nutrition in case the anarchist's conditions worsen - still took time.

"After a choral and in-depth debate - the Committee announced - the plenary decided to continue the

In reiterating the need for 41bis for anarchist, the Surveillance Court of Rome had instead underlined the danger that Cospito could, under ordinary regime, continue to exercise "his apical role" among anarchists even outside prison.

Ordinary detention, even "in a high-security regime, would not allow adequate countering of the high risk of behavior oriented towards the exercise of one's apical role within the association to which he belongs", they stated, further arguing that there is "a concrete danger, a qualified ability of Cospito to fully resume the associative bonds even from inside the prison, and to convey criminal provisions externally and with authority".

Given these assumptions, therefore, the

high security is not enough But that's not all.

In the ordinance, the judges of the Capital affirmed that Cospito's communications "with anarchist realities outside the prison circuit appear assiduous and produce the effect of helping to identify strategic objectives and to stimulate direct actions of attack on institutions".

A position which, according to the verdict, was endorsed by the Cassation.

"It will not be violence and threats that will change laws and sentences" rejoices Matteo Salvini while for the Alliance Verdi and the Left it is a "very tough decision which we take note of while waiting for the reasons".

Source: ansa

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