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Solidarity to Alfredo Cospito
Written 15th February, 2023
After the coup de théâtre arrived on 8th February 2023 deposited in the secretary’s office where the deputy prosecutor Piero Gaeta asks the court of cassation the annulment of the 41 bis regime, Alfredo informed his lawyer Caterina Calia that he does not want to commit suicide but struggle against 41 bis.
He recommenced taking potassium, supplements and honey. Alfredo began his hunger strike on October 20th 2022 as an instrument of struggle a mechanism of nonviolent protest used since antiquity. A struggle that nowadays is mainly used to achieve fundamental rights denied by the State and those who govern us, and to protest against injustices inflicted… Yes, because the 41 bis is torture.
Alfredo wants to live, every cell of his body has resisted for 118 days, and still today resists against his hunger strike. His strike is for everyone, not only for himself, he want to live and also wants the other prisoners, who are imprisoned in the hard prison regime to be able to live.
A disguised death penalty, the abyss and the chasm of 41 bis, a condition of total isolation, inhuman and degrading. Prolonged restriction an also have damaging social and mental effects. Life imprisonment is intolerable, let us remember that in Italy, hostile life imprisonment, is a perpetual and immutable punishment, it is not possible to have any benefit unless you cooperate with justice, exchanging your freedom for that of others, it is another legalised horror, ‘never an end of sentence, 31/12/9999’ ..A date that scares you, that kills you, that buries you for good, while leaving you alive.
To die of a sentence is intolerable. A world without jails is possible. All together we can win our struggle, knowledge and public support, these are our weapons of battle. In anticipation of February 24th when we hope that the cassation will have the courage to make the right choice and revoke Alfredo’s 41 bis.
We send our solidarity to Alfredo and to all the imprisoned comrades.
Luna – Beppe – Samira