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Porto Alegre, Brazil: Protest at the Italian Consulate in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Porto Alegre: Protest at the Italian Consulate in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Actions in solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito have not been absent in the territory in conflict with the brazilian state.

The consulates of Belo Horizonte and São Paulo were visited (1). Posters were pasted up in the cities of Porto Alegre and São Paulo, the consulate in Porto Alegre was attacked with burning oil this past December (2).

March 1, 2023, at 11am, in response to the call for agitation for Alfredo, we went to the Italian consulate in Porto Alegre in a fleeting and surprising protest with pamphlets, incendiary devices and banners. We didn’t go to ask for anything, but to demonstrate our hatred of states, prisons and the societies that support them, as well as expressing our deep and complicit solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito. His hunger strike of more than 130 days is a fight to the death against isolation in italian prison (41bis), a struggle that is more than dignified (3).

Any gesture will seem small in contrast… but apathy will never be our comrade!
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EN/IT : A political intervention of solidarity with the comrade and hunger striker, since 20/10/22, Alfredo Cospito at the Italian Educational Institute in Patission. (Athens,Greece)

(EN) On Friday, March 17th, at the launch of the presentation of the collective volume – tribute to the work of Altiero Spinelli (“a visionary and one of the great ‘fathers’ of European unification”) at the Italian Educational Institute in Patision – Athens (across the NTUA gate), a political intervention of solidarity with the comrade and hunger striker, since 20/10/22, Alfredo Cospito was held.

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Interrupting their civil celebration, in the presence of the ambassador of the Italian state Patrizia Falcinelli and the president of the European Movement of Italy Pier Virgilio Dastoli, the president of the Mediterranean Studies department of the University of the Aegean S. Dalis, the vice president of the European Parliament D. Papadimoulis and the former MEP K. Botopoulou, as well as other big business exploiters and their henchmen who were smitten before the elections in the institutional salons, such as the former minister and current MP G. Katrougalos, we shaked for a while the image of their superiority in their field.

The hypocritical “sensitivity” of Europe’s bourgeois democratic politicians and scholars for rights and federalism (of the economies and the capital), in the media image of 2016, when Renzi, Merkel and Hollande paid tribute to Spinelli’s grave (in favor of the foundations of European unity), was forced to be silent in order to hear the speech of the anarchist hunger striker Alfredo Cospito and the fight against 41bis and against the prison.Slogans were heard, flyers were thrown and we made clear to the present representatives of the former government that we do not forget the passing of the new Penal Code and the way it opened for the condition of incarceration here. Our struggles recognize no borders.
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Napoli and Pozzuoli, Italy: Raids on houses of comrades in connection to a 270 bis investigation into attacks in solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas

On March 28, 2023 two houses, one in Napoli and one in Pozzuoli, were raided and four comrades were taken to the police station, in connection with a 270 bis investigation (anti-terrorist association), which was officialized in May 2022 following several house-searches.

Although the investigation is still ongoing, one comrade was placed under preventive arrest, accused of an arson attack against the Greek consulate in 2021. The prosecution contextualizes this attack within the campaign in solidarity with revolutionary Greek prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, who at the time was on hunger strike.
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Alfredo Cospito – 30 March, 2023 ”Remains dangerous and without a trace of remorse”

Alfredo Cospito – 30 March, ”Remains dangerous and without a trace of remorse”

Today, 4 days after the decision of the Supervisory Court and after the general outcry not only from comrades but also from the whole of the progressive – and not only – world, the Italian media – after days of silence where there is no substantial information about his health condition – are reporting and highlighting the ‘reasons’ for the rejection. Reasons such as the judges’ insistence that Alfredo, in addition to 41bis, ‘could have indicated, organised and communicated hits and targets to the FAI comrades’, with the aim of carrying them out.

At a time when more than 200 lawyers and judges in the country have signed a petition to protest against his illegal detention in 41bis, the media are speaking of the ‘obvious danger’ because of which the court has again rejected the appeal of the defence, bringing back the original decision of the Supreme Court of Rome in December 2022, according to which ‘if Alfredo had remained in maximum security, he would have continued to ‘lean’ on his ‘free associates’ and be a point of reference and a source of indication and planning as to the lines to be followed and the targets to be hit’… .

‘He is extremely dangerous, persistent and unbreakable’

The ‘reasons’ are further explained in the sentence filed today, Thursday 30 March, as follows:
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Italy: Cigarette vending machines hacked in Sardinia, Naples, Pescara and Liguria in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

Cigarette vending machines hacked in Sardinia, Naples, Pescara and Liguria in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

26 March 2023

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“Computer pirates in action to give solidarity to Alfredo Cospito, the anarchist leader – previously detained in Sassari, now confined to the Opera penitentiary (Milan) – for months on hunger strike against the harsh prison to which he is subjected and which in recent days has been taken to the hospital for medical checkups.

The attack targeted several cigarette vending machines in Sardinia : after entering the computer system, the hackers managed to make the message “Fuori Alfredo dal 41 bis” appear on the screens. And, further down, “Close the 41 bis free all free all”.

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(Argentina) Claim for Arson of Federal Police Vehicle

Claim for Arson of Federal Police Vehicle

March 11, 2023

Insurrectional Solidarity with Alfredo.

Subversion may sleep, but it will never disappear!

One night in the first week of february we set a car of the central police force of the PFA on fire. We had a list of their license plates. This “unit” always parked at Urquiza and Av. Belgrano. This action is a return to the path of attack.

It is not solidarity. It is the attack for those who are locked up, dead and clandestine. Down with 41 bis. Strength and brotherhood with Alfrdo.

Strength and brotherhood to the combatant prisoners with long and short sentences.

Determination is our’s, if not now, when !!!!!. Determination is our’s.

subversive delirium group. Circumstantially incendiary.

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INTRANSIGENCE TAKEN FROM THE DARDI n°11 – Foglio anarchico aperiodico (Italy)

INTRANSIGENCE (INTRANSIGENZA)

There is nothing more disgusting than executioners when they parade as pitiful defenders of Justice. Nothing is more hypocritical than the statements against capital punishment made by upright State representatives against dictatorial regimes that use it to suppress revolts.

In Iran at least the State has the decency to take responsibility for the deaths of its persecuted, inconceivable for a modern, democratic progressive State, which has far more subtle ways to get rid of them.
After all, why bother to kill the rebels who end up in one’s hands? Better to bury them alive in a concrete hole where time and the resulting physical and mental decomposition will take care of the rest. Provided that they do not rehabilitate, of course, which would mean them surrendering their conscience to become dissociated and collaborators. How many, in Italy alone, even if with different experiences, are in the same condition? And let it be clear, this does not detract from the brutality perpetrated against those who see their freedom and dignity taken away, for a short or long period, within the aseptic perimeter of a prison, suffering torture of all kinds by honest champions of order, family men and sons of the homeland.
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Italy: The request for deferral of Alfredo Cospito’s sentence to house arrest rejected by the Supervisory Courts of Milan and Sassari

The request for deferral of Alfredo Cospito’s sentence to house arrest rejected by the Supervisory Courts of Milan and Sassari

27/3/23: The Supervisory Court of Milan replied by rejecting the request for house arrest for health reasons for anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito.

At the same time the Sassari court reached the same decision. In both cases with the long motivations already written. The comrade’s behaviour is defined instrumental in obtaining changes in political and judicial decisions.

While contradictions are accumulating within the political and judicial apparatuses (e.g., opinion of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, the Attorney General of the Supreme Court, Sibilla re-examination, etc.) each time one is faced with an organ that has the power to resolve the question raised by the comrade’s struggle immediately, the party of the death sentence applies all its political power to block any possible way out.
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Italy: Claim for an incendiary attack against a telecommunications antenna-repeater in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito (22 March 2023)

CLAIM FOR THE INCENDIARY ATTACK AFAINST A TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA-REPEATER IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO (ROME)

In the early hours of Wednesday 22nd March 2023 we attacked an antenna-repeater with fire inside the great ring road of Rome. We identified this objective in order to strike the telecommunications apparatus and to express our solidarity with the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito, on hunger strike for 154 days aganist the prison regime 41 bis and life sentence without appeal.

Revolutionary solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and with all the anarchist and revolutionary prisoners.

Solidarity is attack. Death to the State, to capital and every authority.

[Ricevuto via e-mail & pubblicato in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/22/rivendicazione-dellattacco-incendiario-contro-unantenna-ripetitore-per-le-telecomunicazioni-in-solidarieta-con-alfredo-cospito-roma-22-marzo-2023/]
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Italy: Urgent update on the health conditions of Alfredo Cospito at over 150 days of hunger strike to the end (21-22 March 2023) [under update]

Urgent updates on the health condition of Alfredo Cospito at over 150 days’ hunger strike to the end (21-22 March 2023) [under update]

Update on the medical situationdi Alfredo Cospito, ion hunger strike since October 20th against 41 bis and life sentence without appeal.

We learn from the press of the regime that today (21st March 2023) that the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike for five months had a heart attack, the comrade – they write – “was dying”. The incident allegedly began when the comrade felt a tremor in his hand and alerted a guard. “After ten minutes the nurse and the doctor arrived, shouting and saying that they had seen a heart problem from the monitoring. They were very concerned, he was dying.” […]. The crisis reportedly subsided after an injection of a large dose of potassium.

The results of tests carried out yesterday were also released today. According to the doctors, the values indicate that Alfredo may now have suffered permanent neurological damage and could be paralysed.

[Taken from a number of telegram channels and republished in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/22/aggiornamenti-urgenti-sulle-condizioni-di-salute-di-alfredo-cospito-a-oltre-150-giorni-di-sciopero-della-fame-ad-oltranza-21-22-marzo-2023-in-aggiornamento/]

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Greece: ‘For our brother Alfredo’

‘For our brother Alfredo’

Sixteen Poste Italiane vehicles were set on fire early Saturday morning, while 22 buses were burnt to the ground Saturday night in Rome. This was preceded by the burning of telecommunications pillars in Genoa, shortly before the big anti-fascist march in Milan, attended by over 4000 anarchists, to commemorate 20 years since the murder of Davide Casare (Dax) and in solidarity with Alfredo’s struggle against 41bis, who is now on his 150th day of a hunger strike.

Many developments are expected this week due to moves made indefence of Alfredo, as well as the upcoming review of the request on 24 March for the recall of 41bis and his detention for health reasons by the Milan Court of Appeal.

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Mexican $tate, Xalapa, Veracruz : Down with Prison

Down with Prison

From the south of the territory dominated by the mexican $tate, Xalapa, Veracruz, We add these contributions of protest for the freedom of Alfredo Cospito, Yorch Esquivel, prisoners of Chile, prisoners of Eloxochitlan and all the other anarchists held hostage in the cages of the enemy.

Fire to the prisons and active solidarity in the war on the streets. Freedom for prisoners at war.

Urgent Words Faced with a Flame that is Going Out. Words of Monica Caballero on the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito ( $hile)

Urgent Words Faced with a Flame that is Going Out. Words of Monica Caballero on the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito

February 3, 2023

I have had the pleasure of reading the words of comrades from different territories who showed their ardent solidarity with the hunger strike waged by Alfredo Cospito to get out of the torture regime of 41 bis. In these lands a group of subversive, anarchist, anti-authoritarian, anti-speciesist and nihilist prisoners also expressed our unconditional solidarity with the comrade. To fraternize with a comrade as valuable as Alfredo is necessary for those of us who position ourselves as deniers and antagonists to the current life governed by authority, and even more so in the difficult moment he is going through,. Sending words of solidarity from prison to a like-minded comrade is never out of place.

In my case, when I have received words of solidarity from a comrade while imprisoned, I have always valued and treasured them as something very precious. But at this moment comrade Alfredo Cospito needs words to be transformed into actions, to attack, coerce, subvert, manipulate, threaten, etc. all those who have the power to change his prison situation and/or who sustain the 41 bis regime.

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : Fire-bruary

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) : Fire-bruary

IAATA, March 5, 2023

The first cold hours of February 25 were warmed up by the criminal and shameless fire of a Circet car in Amidonniers. The development of telecoms transforms the world into an open-air work colony, but only the authorities have an interest in pretending that revolt is impossible. There is always a way to strike.

This flaming car was meant to salute Boris, a comrade from Besançon who was repressed for burning cell towers, and the people arrested in November across Occitania for burning cell towers and speed cameras.

Also, on February 24 the Italian justice confirmed that Alfredo Cospito
will remain in solitary confinement, which is like trying to kill him. This fire also wanted to support the fight against this world of barbed wire.

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(Spanish State) Claim for the Package Bomb Against the Head of the Prison Guards’ Union CSIF Zaragoza

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Spain: Claim for the Package Bomb Against the Head of the Prison Guards’ Union CSIF Zaragoza

March 11, 2023

Alfonso Peiró is not a mere jailer. For some reason he feels compelled to defend corporate impunity, specifically in the Zuera, Zaragoza maxi-prison.

When the prisoners vent their anger among themselves or against one another, everything continues as usual. However, when someone dares to return the violence to the henchmen of confinement, doubly despicable characters like Alfonso Peiró come out to bawl victimhood.

The few consequences that could arise from our attentions are nothing compared to what characters of his ilk and their superiors deserve.
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