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Life imprisonment requested for the anarchist Cospito

2022-12-05T15:27:05.358Z


He: 'Condemned to a limbo waiting for the end'. Procession to ask for his release through the streets of Turin. Paper and barrel bombs to a bartender (ANSA)


At the conclusion of his indictment, the Attorney General Francesco Saluzzo, during the appeal hearing that is taking place in Turin, asked for life imprisonment and twelve months of daytime isolation for the anarchist Alfredo Cospito for the attack on the pupils' school of the Carabinieri of Fossano (Cuneo), in 2005. For Cospito's partner, Anna Beniamino Saluzzo, the Public Prosecutor's Office asked for 27 years and one month. 

"Condemned to an endless limbo, awaiting the end of my days I'm not in it and I'm not giving up but I will continue my hunger strike for the abolition of 41 bis and life imprisonment until my last breath to make known these two repressive abominations of this country to the world",

Cospito

said in a spontaneous statement during the hearing that opened in Turin.

The anarchist, under the 41 bis regime, is connected by video conference from the Sassari prison.

The militant of the informal anarchist federation (Fai) risks life imprisonment for the attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano (Cuneo), when two bombs were detonated in 2006.

For this episode Cospito was sentenced to 20 years, but the Court of Appeal of Turin, presided over by Piera Caprioglio, will have to decide whether to re-determine the crime as a political massacre.

In the courtroom, the indictment of the Attorney General Francesco Saluzzo and the prosecutor Paolo Scafi began In connection, Anna Beniamino also from Rebibbia prison "This is a political trial" for "a massacre without a massacre attributed without evidence", he said.

At the end of the spontaneous declarations, the comrades of the two anarchists present in the courtroom launched slogans including "If you go with nuclear power you'll have to limp", a clear reference to the attack that took place in Genoa in 2012, when the CEO of Ansaldo was shot in the knees .

For this affair Cospito was convicted. 

The anarchists in the procession demanded the release of Alfredo Cospito, through the streets of Turin.

About 250 moved from the garrison in front of the Palace of Justice, where the appeal hearing is taking place.

The procession opens with a banner reinforced with panels, while in the front row the antagonists wear helmets.

Some writings were made on the walls of the banks, while a bartender, who had complained about the vandalism, was beaten up.

Smoke bombs were lit and several paper bombs detonated.

The procession has arrived in Corso Regina Margherita, in the direction of the Porta Palazzo market.


Source: ansa

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