About the recent searches ordered by prosecutors of Rome and Massa as part of the investigations concerning some initiatives in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on March 3 and 9, 2023
We publish in English two updates on recent investigations by the prosecutors of Massa (searches and precautionary measures of March 9th) and Rome (searches of March 3rd).
Searches and precautionary measures for the demonstration in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and all revolutionary prisoners on September 10, 2022, in Marina di Carrara
Yesterday, March 9th, searches were carried out against three comrades in Crotone, Lecce and Spoleto. The three were also given the precautionary measure of being obliged to present themselves daily at the police station for facts dating back to last September in Carrara where, during a demonstration in solidarity with Alfredo, a Lega electoral stand was encountered. There are seven suspects in total, five for robbery, two for defacement and all seven for election campaign interruption.
Some of those under investigation
Searches in Rome and Umbria in connection with two initiatives in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike (March 3, 2023)
At dawn on March 3rd, a conspicuous number of agents of the repressive forces – including DIGOS of the state police and ROS of the Carabinieri, on a warrant from the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office in the person of the public prosecutor Francesco Dall’Olio, already responsible for other investigations against the anarchist movement – appeared at the doors of some homes in Rome and Umbria to carry out searches on eight anarchists, all under investigation in connection with two initiatives in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito held in Rome last November. In addition to carrying out house searches against the suspects, we learn that other comrades present in the same homes and, lastly, a space (Circolo Anarchico ‘La Faglia’, in Foligno) were also searched.
The charges against the suspects are ‘manufacture or possession of explosive materials’, ‘unannounced demonstration’ and ‘private violence’. The searches involved seizures inside the homes, especially of anarchist and revolutionary publications.
We publish the communiqué circulated on the morning of March 3rd and – in order to give an overview of the initiatives on which this new ‘incursion’ by the servants of the state focused – the text read during the interruption of the play at the Argentina Theatre on November 26th.
Searches in Rome and Umbria
Searches have been in progress since the morning of today, March 3rd, in Rome, Spoleto and Foligno against eight anarchist comrades, on charges relating to an initiative in front of the RAI headquarters in via Romagnoli in Rome on November 13rd (art. 435 of penal code and art. 18 TULPS) and the interruption of a play at Teatro Argentina, also in Rome, on the following November 26th (art. 610 of penal code). Both initiatives took place in the context of the mobilisation in solidarity with anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, on hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole since October 20th. Furthermore, in the context of the same repressive operation, anarchist space Circolo Anarchico ‘La Faglia’, in Foligno, is currently being searched.
Solidarity with the investigated and searched comrades.
Alfredo out from 41 bis! Solidarity with all imprisoned anarchists and revolutionaries!
Interruption of a play at Teatro Argentina in solidarity with the imprisoned anarchists on hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime (Rome, 26 November 2022)
Today, November 26th, 2022, the play ‘Hamlet’ at Teatro Argentina in Rome was interrupted. Despite the fact that the theatre workers turned into a real security service to protect the interests of the bosses, we managed with determination to get on stage, unfurl a banner saying ‘There is something rotten in Italy: no to 41 bis’, throw leaflets and read part of the communiqué which we reproduce in full below:
We are here because Alfredo Cospito is in 41 bis prison regime. 41 bis is a detention regime specifically designed to annihilate the individual. We are here because Alfredo has been on hunger strike for more than a month. We are not here to cry over an injustice suffered by our anarchist comrade, because it is not. Just as it is not a legal aberration. It is the logical reaction of the democratic state to the attacks by Alfredo. First physical, with the wounding of the bureaucrat Adinolfi, at the time CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare and for which he finished serving the sentence to which he had been sentenced. Then with the words with which, during his detention in High Security, he contributed to the debates of the anarchist movement. 41 bis against Alfredo is not only revenge, it is also the will to take away the word. Because the word, when it does not remain a mere rhetorical exercise, is a weapon.
Alfredo has been on hunger strike for more than a month to obtain his downgrading from 41 bis and against life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
He has been joined by imprisoned anarchists Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco and Anna Beniamino. They use the hunger strike because in the condition of isolation in which they find themselves, it is perhaps the only form of struggle available. With strength and courage they are risking their safety, their lives… while you are sitting here watching a show and do not realise that everything is a show. Every day something is taken from you; for the moment, it has no consequence on you and so you turn away. Blinded by your privileges you think democracy is the best possible system and you look indignantly at exotic nations where people are trampled on. You want truth and justice for Giulio Regeni and you don’t give a shit about the 14 deaths in prison on March 8th, 2020 by Italian democracy. You don’t give a fuck about the 80 prison suicides since January 2022. You don’t give a fuck about the concentration camps for migrants scattered around the beautiful country.
We have not come to raise your awareness. If you still sleep soundly… we spoil your fun.
We break the social peace in which you bliss.
Death to the State!
Long live Anarchy!
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