anarchistnews.org
Jan 22, 2025
From Freedom News UK by Sonia Muñoz Llort
Judge declines prosecution of anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito and 11 others for incitement and subversion
A judge in Italy has declined to indict twelve anarchists associated with the insurrectionary magazine Vetriolo of various incitement and subversion charges. Alfredo Cospito and Michele Fabiani, along with ten others, faced terrorism enhancements on almost all the charges sought by the public prosecutor.
Cospito and his partner Anna Beniamino have been imprisoned for years, along with other comrades accused of clandestine action. In 2013 Cospito was sentenced to ten years and eight months in prison for having shot Roberto Adinolfi, a manager of engineering firm Ansaldo, in the leg. Being already in jail, in June 2006 he was also convicted of having set two explosive devices in front of a Carabinieri police training college in northern Italy.
In 2022 he was moved to the Bancali prison in Sardinia, and subject to a restrictive 41 bis regime of isolation, which human rights organisations have condemned as torture. This has led to a widespread campaign for his release and led him to launch a hunger strike in opposition.
The prosecution of Vetriolo magazine began in November 2023. However, at the hearing on 15 January the judge announced that the indictment sought by the public prosecutor in Perugia would not go forward.
During the hearing, the accused made spontaneous statements to clarify their positions on the entire case against them, as well as for the abolition of the 41 bis regime. Cospito warned that his disturbing prosecution as supposedly having a “top role” in an anarchist organisation “opens wide the gates of 41 bis to anyone who disturbs power”, describing the case as “fundamentally an attack on freedom of thought and of the press”.
From Freedom News UK by Sonia Muñoz Llort
Judge declines prosecution of anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito and 11 others for incitement and subversion
A judge in Italy has declined to indict twelve anarchists associated with the insurrectionary magazine Vetriolo of various incitement and subversion charges. Alfredo Cospito and Michele Fabiani, along with ten others, faced terrorism enhancements on almost all the charges sought by the public prosecutor.
Cospito and his partner Anna Beniamino have been imprisoned for years, along with other comrades accused of clandestine action. In 2013 Cospito was sentenced to ten years and eight months in prison for having shot Roberto Adinolfi, a manager of engineering firm Ansaldo, in the leg. Being already in jail, in June 2006 he was also convicted of having set two explosive devices in front of a Carabinieri police training college in northern Italy.
In 2022 he was moved to the Bancali prison in Sardinia, and subject to a restrictive 41 bis regime of isolation, which human rights organisations have condemned as torture. This has led to a widespread campaign for his release and led him to launch a hunger strike in opposition.
The prosecution of Vetriolo magazine began in November 2023. However, at the hearing on 15 January the judge announced that the indictment sought by the public prosecutor in Perugia would not go forward.
During the hearing, the accused made spontaneous statements to clarify their positions on the entire case against them, as well as for the abolition of the 41 bis regime. Cospito warned that his disturbing prosecution as supposedly having a “top role” in an anarchist organisation “opens wide the gates of 41 bis to anyone who disturbs power”, describing the case as “fundamentally an attack on freedom of thought and of the press”.
Italy: Alfredo Cospito and 11 Other Anarchists Acquitted
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Jan 19, 2025
From Abolition Media
The investigating judge’s decision came in the afternoon.
There is no place to proceed for Alfredo Cospito and 11 other anarchists. This is what the judge of Perugia, Angela Avila, decided today, January 15, in the afternoon, at the end of the discussion during the preliminary hearing. Cospito and Michele Fabiani from Spoleto, together with the other 10, were charged with various charges of apology and incitement to subversion and of some episodes of damage. In November 2021, the Perugia ROS had applied six precautionary measures against as many exponents of the anarchist sector. The charges were related to the publication of a newspaper considered clandestine, Vetriolo.
Lawyer Flavio Rossi Albertini, who defends Cospito, in the 41 bis at least until next year, declares: “We have obtained a result for which we have fought from the first hour. Here there was a tendency to mystify the free expression of one’s own political opinion, making thought pass for crime. Let us not forget that also thanks to the Sibilla operation, the 41bis was requested for Cospito and now that everyone has been acquitted, as well as in another investigation in Rome that had been used for the 41bis, I hope that this will induce the Minister who will be responsible for this decision, in the event that its renewal is requested, to deny it.”
Satisfaction was also expressed by the lawyer Carmelo Parente, who assists Michele Fabiani: “These are very delicate issues, crimes of opinion can affect everyone, not just the anarchists, it is important that the judge has evaluated them with due care and not considered it configurable.”
Lawyer Caterina Calia is also on the same wavelength: “Years ago they wanted to criminalize all activity attributable to that anarchist zone, but as always we have maintained that none of the crimes that the prosecution had challenged were committed.”
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From Abolition Media
The investigating judge’s decision came in the afternoon.
There is no place to proceed for Alfredo Cospito and 11 other anarchists. This is what the judge of Perugia, Angela Avila, decided today, January 15, in the afternoon, at the end of the discussion during the preliminary hearing. Cospito and Michele Fabiani from Spoleto, together with the other 10, were charged with various charges of apology and incitement to subversion and of some episodes of damage. In November 2021, the Perugia ROS had applied six precautionary measures against as many exponents of the anarchist sector. The charges were related to the publication of a newspaper considered clandestine, Vetriolo.
Lawyer Flavio Rossi Albertini, who defends Cospito, in the 41 bis at least until next year, declares: “We have obtained a result for which we have fought from the first hour. Here there was a tendency to mystify the free expression of one’s own political opinion, making thought pass for crime. Let us not forget that also thanks to the Sibilla operation, the 41bis was requested for Cospito and now that everyone has been acquitted, as well as in another investigation in Rome that had been used for the 41bis, I hope that this will induce the Minister who will be responsible for this decision, in the event that its renewal is requested, to deny it.”
Satisfaction was also expressed by the lawyer Carmelo Parente, who assists Michele Fabiani: “These are very delicate issues, crimes of opinion can affect everyone, not just the anarchists, it is important that the judge has evaluated them with due care and not considered it configurable.”
Lawyer Caterina Calia is also on the same wavelength: “Years ago they wanted to criminalize all activity attributable to that anarchist zone, but as always we have maintained that none of the crimes that the prosecution had challenged were committed.”
#FUORIALFREDODAL41BIS
#alfredolibero
Buscando la kalle
Via Presxs en Lucha
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