We receive the declaration of Anna Beniamino read out during the appeal hearing for the recalculation of sentences as part of the Scripta Manent trial. (Turin, 5 December 2022).
This is a political trial, which has aimed from the outset at the administration of exemplary punishment, a trial of our anarchist identities rather than deeds, a trial of those who do not renounce their ideas.
A massacre without a massacre attributed without evidence is the culmination of a growing commitment of Antiterrorism and Prosecution to exorcise the spectre of anarchism of action.
The imposition of the 41 bis regime to Alfredo Cospito, guilty of engaging in relations with the anarchist movement from the prison, is in the same vein. The hunger strike to the end that the comrade has been conducting since October 20th is the last resort against isolation and sensory, physical, psychic deprivation, against a political gag. A gag that even prevented him from reading the reasons for the strike itself.
41 bis is the extreme degree of doggedness of differentiated regimes: prisons where continual solitary confinement and the overcrowding of the common sections are the two faces of a system aimed at annihilating the individual. Prisons where massacres, real ones, have occurred and continue to occur: in the suppression of the 2020 uprisings, in the incessant suicides, in the treatment of the poorest and most fragile of prisoners as ‘residual material’ of the dominant techno-capitalist society.
If anything happens to Alfredo Cospito, any individual doted with critical thought will understand who the instigators and executors of his physical annihilation are, having failed to make the political and ideal one. I am aware that I am hostage of a system that is hiding its political, economic, social and environmental collapse behind the fetish of ‘security’ and ‘terrorism’.
It is necessary to oppose this. You can destroy people’s lives, you will not succeed in extinguishing anti-authoritarian thinking and practices. You will not succeed in breaking revolutionary tension, you will not succeed in extinguishing anarchy.
My greetings to Alfredo and all the comrades.
Anna Beniamino
via: infernourbano
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Alfredo Cospito’s declaration read out at the appeal trial for the recalculation of the sentences related to the Scripta Manent trial
We receive and publish Alfredo Cospito’s declaration read out at the appeal trial for the recalculation of the sentences related to the Scripta Manent trial (Turin, 5th December 2022).
I will only say a few lines. Before disappearing into the oblivion of the 41 bis regime for good let me say a few things and then I’ll keep quiet forever. The judiciary of the Italian republic decided that I, too subversive, should no longer have the chance to see the stars, freedom. Buried for good with life imprisonment without appeal, which I have no doubt you will give me on the absurd charge of having committed a “political massacre” for two demonstrative attacks in the middle of the night, in deserted places, that were not intended to and could not have injured or killed anyone and in fact did not injure or kill anyone.
Not satisfied, as well as a life sentence without appeal, given that I continued writing and collaborating with the anarchist press from the prison, it was decided to clamp my mouth for ever with the medieval gag 41 bis, condemning me to an endless limbo awaiting death. I will not stand for it and I will not surrender, and will continue my hunger strike for the abolition of 41 bis and life sentence without appeal until my last breath to let the world know about these two repressive abominations in this country.
There are 750 of us in this regime and I am also fighting for that. By my side my anarchist and revolutionary brothers and sisters. I am accustomed to the censorship and smoke screens of the media, whose sole aim is to monstrify any radical and revolutionary opponent.
Abolition of the 41 bis regime.
Abolition of life sentence without appeal.
Solidarity to all the anarchist, communist and revolutionary prisoners in the world.
Always for anarchy.
Alfredo Cospito
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via: Infernourbano
Translations by Act for freedom now!
Solidarity is our Weapon
Fire to the Prisons
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ES: ITALIA: DECLARACIÓN DE ANNA BENIAMINO LEÍDA DURANTE LA VISTA DE APELACIÓN PARA EL NUEVO CÁLCULO DE SENTENCIA EN EL JUICIO DE SCRIPTA MANENT
Recibimos y publicamos la declaración de Anna Beniamino leída durante la audiencia de apelación para el nuevo cálculo de sentencia en el juicio Scripta Manent (Turín, 5 de diciembre de 2022).
Este es un juicio político, que desde el principio tuvo como objetivo la administración de un castigo ejemplar, un juicio a nuestras identidades como anarquistas en lugar de a los hechos, un juicio a aquellos que no abjuran de sus ideas.
Una masacre atribuida sin pruebas es la culminación de un esfuerzo creciente de la lucha antiterrorista y de la fiscalía por exorcizar el fantasma del anarquismo de acción.
La imposición del régimen del 41 bis a Alfredo Cospito, culpable de mantener relaciones con el movimiento anarquista desde la cárcel, forma parte del mismo diseño. La huelga de hambre hasta el amargo final que el compañero lleva a cabo desde el 20 de octubre es el último recurso contra el aislamiento y la privación sensorial, física, psíquica, contra una mordaza política. Una mordaza que le ha impedido incluso leer los motivos de la propia huelga.
El 41 bis es el grado extremo de ensañamiento de los regímenes diferenciados: cárceles donde el aislamiento continuo y el hacinamiento de las secciones comunes son las dos caras de un sistema destinado a aniquilar al individuo. Cárceles donde se han producido y se producen masacres, las de verdad: en la represión de las revueltas de 2020, en el goteo de suicidios, en el tratamiento de los presos más pobres y frágiles como «material residual» de la sociedad tecno-capitalista imperante.
Si algo le ocurre a Alfredo Cospito cualquier individuo con pensamiento crítico comprenderá quienes son los instigadores y ejecutores de su aniquilación física, al no haber llevado a cabo la política e ideal. Soy consciente de que soy rehén de un sistema que oculta su colapso político, económico, social y medioambiental tras el fetiche de la «seguridad» y el «terrorismo».
Oponerse a esto es necesario. Puedes destruir la vida de la gente, no conseguirás extinguir el pensamiento y las prácticas antiautoritarias. No conseguiréis romper la tensión revolucionaria, no conseguiréis extinguir la anarquía.
Saludo a Alfredo y a todxs lxs compañerxs.
Anna Beniamino
FUENTE: INFERNO URBANO
TRADUCCIÓN: ANARQUÍA