Alfredo Cospito

thumb Alfredo Cospito (born 1967) is an Italian anarchist. In his twenties, he refused conscription to military service and was convicted of desertion, then pardoned after going on hunger strike for one month. In 2012, he was sentenced to 10 years for kneecapping the head of the Italian nuclear power company Ansaldo Nucleare. Quotes On a beautiful May morning, I took action, and in those few hours, I lived life to the full. For once, I put my fears and self-excuses behind me and took a leap into the unknown. In a Europe dotted with nuclear power plants, one of the main culprits of the nuclear disaster to come fell at my feet. From the statement to the trial: the shooting of Ansaldo Nucleare executive Roberto Adinolfi; Adinolfi: Confermate condanne ad Alfredo Cospito, Nicola Gai, blitzquotidiano.it, 1 May 2015. [...] my firm belief that a revolution (a grand-sounding word) can only be carried out by those who have the devil in them. And those who have the devil in them are not afraid of the word ' terrorism' , because they want, with all their might, for the powerful to live in terror at least as much as their victims, the 'wretched of the earth'. From the document submitted for the meeting on 9 June 2019 in Bologna; quoted in Il documento – Cospito si aspettava il 41 bis da 3 anni: «Sono un terrorista, non temiamo la violenza», open.online, 1 February 2023. Quotes about In Italy, there is an anarchist activist, Alfredo Cospito, who is being held under Section 41-bis in a maximum-security prison in Sardinia, where the cells are below sea level. He was sentenced to life imprisonment (a 'restrictive' sentence, of course) for placing two parcel bombs at the entrance to the Carabinieri cadet school in Fossano (Cuneo) in 2006. The explosion did not result in any deaths or injuries, but theoretically, it could have done. That is why the harshest, most pointless and inhumane measures were taken against Cospito, who was convicted of 'mass murder'. Enrico Deaglio, quoted in Cospito è sano, dunque può morire, maremosso.lafeltrinelli.it, 26 January 2023. Under the 41-bis regime, he was forbidden from keeping photos of his deceased parents in his cell, as formal recognition of their identities by the mayor of their home town is required. In my view, in the face of this, there is room for the civil disobedience of a hunger strike. Gherardo Colombo, Salviamolo e cambiamo il carcere duro, Domani, 29 January 2023. I find it paradoxical that the left-wing parties cannot be held accountable for their decisions, when the origin of the recent controversy is objectively the visit to Cospito by a high-ranking delegation from the Democratic Party, at a time when the prisoner was stepping up his efforts to communicate with the outside world, as is clear from the notes of the judicial authority that ruled on the case, which have been made public by the media. What strikes me even more than that visit, though, is that – based on what the press has reported on the matter – after acknowledging Alfredo Cospito's links with Mafia bosses while serving a maximum-security prison sentence, and fully aware of how beneficial it would be for the Mafia if the 41-bis regime were called into question, highly influential members of the Democratic Party continued to call for Cospito's 41-bis regime to be revoked, pretending not to understand the implications that such a decision would have, especially in terms of the fight against organised crime. Giorgia Meloni, quoted in Caso Cospito, lettera del Presidente Meloni al Corriere della Sera, governo.it, 4 February 2023. External links Cospito, Alfredo Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:Anarchists from Italy Category:Organizations and people designated as terrorist