A Call for International Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: NO COMRADE WILL BE LEFT ALONE IN THE HANDS OF REPRESSION!

Alfredo Cospito is an anarchist comrade jailed since 2012, initially arrested and sentenced (along with another comrade) for kneecapping the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare. He has served his sentence for that crime (the other comrade is now free), but he is currently serving a 23-year sentence issued in the “Scripta Manent” trial. This was a repressive operation against 20 years of FAI/FRI actions. Comrade Anna Beniamino is also serving a 17-year sentence for this repressive operation.

In May 2022, he was placed in 41 bis, a “harsh prison” regime invented in the ’90s to psychologically annihilate mafia “chiefs” and force them to cooperate. It is now extended to over 700 prisoners, including members of revolutionary groups such as BR-PCC. In October 2022, Alfredo began a six-month hunger strike against the 41-bis regime and life sentences without parole, his likely fate according to the terrorism and political massacre charges (and the prosecutor’s request), which essentially amounts to a death sentence while alive. He chose to risk his life because fighting until his last breath was worth it rather than being sentenced to the “tomb of the living,” which is precisely 41 bis.

A huge mobilization supported his struggle and gained incredible resonance, especially thanks to widespread international actions. For the first time in Italy, this “untouchable” anti-Mafia tool was publicly questioned. His hunger strike ended in April 2023 without most of his requests being met. However, he finally avoided life imprisonment after his case was brought to the Constitutional Court.

Now, three years later, 41 bis is increasingly a model for repression in the EU and beyond. Both Chile and, more recently, the Netherlands are adopting this torture tool in their prison systems. As Alfredo stated in his latest communiqué in court during a January 2025 trial:

“If the imperialist war of the West spills over from Ukraine’s borders and reaches our doorsteps, if social conflicts surpass the sustainable limit of a fragile system, or if a gradual transition to a regime is not feasible, 41bis, with its veneer of legality, will be the ideal tool for forced social anesthetization. It will be a kind of castor oil to bring recalcitrant elements into line—a gradual coup d’état in accordance with the law. This would explain why an emergency regime is needed in the absence of a real emergency.”

Alfredo’s four-year 41bis term will expire in May 2026. Before signing the expected two-year renewal, the Minister of Justice will hear the opinions of the Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism departments. It is worth noting that Minister Carlo Nordio recently played a key role in the swift and sudden release and repatriation of Al-Masri, who was arrested in Italy on the orders of the International Criminal Court. This move could be interpreted as a sign of gratitude for his outstanding work on behalf of the Italian government in torture camps for migrants in Libya.

We have nothing to ask nor hope for from the state. In fact, we are its enemies, and it treats us as such. In recent years, several trials have begun against comrades accused of participating in the mobilization in various ways. This demonstrates once again that one of the main aims of repression is to attack solidarity. This should not cause us to withdraw but rather provide an opportunity for a new beginning. We want to continue the struggle with Alfredo against the prison regime that has him locked up so that he knows, despite his total isolation, that his comrades are there and will not leave him alone.

However, we also want it for ourselves. We conceive of active and combative solidarity with prisoners as an integral part of the perspectives and projects we develop toward anarchy and against the prison society in which we all live.

Solidarity knows no boundaries or nations.
Let’s take up the weapon of solidarity!

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Anna Beniamino – Contribution from Rebibbia prison ahead of the national assembly on October 11 in Rome, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, against 41 bis

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/26/italy-anna-beniamino-contribution-from-rebibbia-prison-ahead-of-the-national-assembly-on-october-11-in-rome-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito-against-41-bis/

#AnnaBeniamino #AnarchistPrisoners #41bis #AlfredoCospito

 Nelle strade di Tolosa sono comparsi diversi manifesti nelle pensiline degli autobus della città per chiedere la liberazione di tutti i prigionieri anarchici, come #NikosMaziotis in Grecia, #MonicaCaballero in Cile, #AlfredoCospito in Italia e #AlexanderSnezhkov in Russia.

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(Italia) Llamado a enviar cartas a Alfredo Cospito contra la censura y el aislamiento
extraído desde Abolition Media y traducido por nosotrxs

(Italia) Llamado a enviar cartas a Alfredo Cospito contra la censura y el aislamiento
Para romper el aisla
https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/italia-llamado-a-enviar-cartas-a-alfredo-cospito-contra-la-censura-y-el-aislamiento/
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Italy: Call to Send Mail to Alfredo Cospito Against Censorship and Isolation

To break the isolation to which Alfredo Cospito is subjected, in particular through the almost complete blocking of mail, his supporters are calling for a massive letter writing to him. Even if letters and postcards can be blocked by the prison administration, this testifies to the existence of significant support for the anarchist prisoner held under the 41bis solitary confinement regime. They point out that it is useful, even if they are not tracked letters or even if they are simply postcards, with or without indication of the sender. Previously, a campaign to send tracked letters had been organized. They have been blocked and the Court for the Execution of Sentences is due to rule on the case in the coming weeks. Finally, in addition to the question of the mail, on September 14 there will be a hearing about the “judgment of conformity”, in relation to the prison of Bancali (where he is detained): this is a procedure where the judge will rule on the ability of the prison to enforce an authorization granted [to a prisoner], but from which he is not really allowed to benefit. It is about the possibility for Alfredo to access the establishment’s library, something that had been authorized, but without him ever being able to benefit from it. If he decides that Alfredo is right, the judge will appoint another figure, outside the prison administration, to ensure that this authorization is respected.

His supporters propose that each collective or individual who wants to participate in this mobilization commit to sending at least seven postcards to Alfredo, during a given week in order to guarantee the visibility and continuity of the campaign. Individuals or groups can send their availability to evaliber2@inventati.org before September 1st. Based on availability, we will draft a schedule in which each individual/collective will be told a week during which to send cards/letters to Alfredo.

The address to write to him:

Alfredo Cospito · Casa circondariale « G. Bacchiddu » · Strada provinciale 56, n.c. 4 · Località Bancali · 07100 – Sassari (Italy)

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/italie-appel-a-envoyer-du-courrier-a-alfredo-cospito-contre-la-censure-et-lisolement/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21003

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(Italia) Persiste el bloqueo total de la correspondencia contra el compañero anarquista Alfredo Cospito
extraído desde La Nemesi y traducido por nosotrxs

PERSISTE EL BLOQUEO TOTAL DE LA COR
https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/09/italia-persiste-el-bloqueo-total-de-la-correspondencia-contra-el-companero-anarquista-alfredo-cospito/
# #Anticarcelario #41bis #Aislamiento #AlfredoCospito #CrculoAnarquistaLaFaglia #Italia #Solidaridad anarquista informativoanarquista

Updates on the Prison Situation of the Anarchist Alfredo Cospito

THE TOTAL BLOCKADE OF CORRESPONDENCE TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE ALFREDO COSPITO PERSISTS

Update at the beginning of July 2025. In these days there is again news regarding the particularly afflictive situation that the management of the Bancali prison, probably in concert with the Ministry of Justice, is imposing on our anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, in particular with regard to correspondence.

We remind you that the censorship of incoming and outgoing mail is a constituent element of the 41 bis regime to which the comrade is subjected. For a long time Alfredo has not received letters, postcards, telegrams and communications of any kind. This despite the fact that many of us are continuing to write to him, even with collective correspondence initiatives such as the one that took place in Foligno on May 31st. In addition, the prison management has long since stopped communicating to the prisoner the notification of censorship, a document against which to appeal to receive the correspondence material seized. The mail simply disappears into thin air.

This behavior is added to a long series of persecutory provisions, aimed at the psychological and political destruction of the comrade: from the denial of access to books already ordered and authorized, to CDs or headphones to listen to music, to the reporting to the bar association for his defenders guilty of having shaken his hand and given him a kiss at the time of the interview – that is, guilty of treating him as a human being.

All this in an already enormously afflictive context such as that of 41 bis which provides for two hours of air a day in groups of up to four people decided by the ministry, one hour of interview per month with a family member separated by glass or alternatively ten minutes of phone call during which the authorized family member must go inside a barracks to call. As well as, as already mentioned, the censorship of correspondence and the impossibility of reading books that concern topics considered sensitive (and the great difficulties in finding any book in general).

We firmly denounce that this persecution is evidently a state revenge for the intransigence and determination with which the 2022-23 hunger strike and the international solidarity mobilization were conducted, putting the spotlight on that gray area that is 41 bis with unprecedented intensity, going to undermine that false celestial aura that surrounds the anti-mafia-anti-terrorism structure.

A persecution that also occurs the day after the sentencing of Undersecretary Delmastro to 8 months for disclosures of official acts, which arose precisely in the scoundrel attempt to smear Alfredo Cospito during the hunger strike.

The misery of these characters in the face of the coherence of an anarchist who has never bowed his head jumps to the eye. On the one hand, those who kneecap a nuclear sorcerer, on the other those who on New Year’s Eve high on cocaine in a moment of rare coherence shoot themselves in the legs.

In the climate of world war that we breathe these days, we reiterate that these episodes must be read as real war policies towards the internal enemy. Great are the challenges that engage revolutionaries in a historical period of this type, but all the more reason we cannot and do not want to leave anyone behind. For whoever forgets the prisoners of the revolutionary struggle forgets the revolutionary struggle itself.

In view of the possible renewal of 41 bis for Alfredo Cospito in May next year, let’s ensure that this too returns to being a battlefield full of contradictions for the State.

Anarchist Circle “La Faglia” – Foligno
July 2025
circoloanarchicolafaglia@inventati.org – t.me/circoloanarchicolafaglia

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REATO DI EMPATIA
"Si legge sulle più disparate testate giornalistiche, che il Direttore del #carcere ha inviato una denuncia all’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma, con oggetto 'segnalazione di comportamento', perché valutasse eventuali profili disciplinari nel comportamento dell’avvocato #FlavioRossiAlbertini, 'reo' di aver salutato calorosamente il suo assistito #AlfredoCospito, alla fine di un colloquio, con un argomentazione che sa di incredibile ma anche di stantio.
Stessa sorte infatti era toccata l’anno scorso all’avvocatessa sassarese, #MariaTeresaPintus, che assiste anche lei Alfredo Cospito, che ha subìto un esposto pressochè identico dallo stesso direttore: https://contropadroni.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/reato-di-empatia/"

#anarchia #anarchy #anarchici #41bis #no41bis