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Greece: Thanos Chatziaggelou – From Greece to Chile Anarchy is a trial, not on trial

Letter of the imprisoned member of Anarchist Action Th. Chatziaggelou to the Chilean imprisoned comrades Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar in view of their trial on May 19

…without a trace of remorse

Anarchy does not bend. It stands proud and unscathed. It travels like waves in the most turbulent seas, hiding its will and rage. It does not swerve, it does not evade. It walks wholeheartedly into the fire and burns to purify the fragmentation of human dignity. It finds temporary refuge in every battle for absolute freedom. It bleeds, is broken, dies and is reborn again and again, giving an endless nightmare to its tyrants.

Anarchy does not bow down. It stands disobedient before the executioners of freedom. It defends its entity under the blade of the political-ideological guillotine even in the most suffocating environment. Dedicated to its historical weight, it leaves its mark indelibly on time to arm new uncontrollable armies of disobedient minorities. It does not give up, it does not repent. It does not diminish and is not silent in the face of subjugation and exploitation. It rises up.

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Chile : Words of Anarchist Comrades Mónica and Francisco in View of the Upcoming Trial

Words of Mónica and Francisco in View of the Upcoming Trial

Justice is already fine-tuning all the details for his big party, he will choose his best outfit and meticulously sharpen his sword. Nothing can go wrong at the moment when he shows himself for what he is: the executioner of the powerful.

The sword of justice has been kept in storage waiting for the key moment to strike the right blow to our bodies. That moment translated into punitive punishment will find its climax in the oral trial, which is already set for May 19. This trial is expected to be a long process of several months.

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Athens,Greece: Solidarity Gathering Saturday 22/4, at Koridallos prison.

“It’s a struggle of resistance to not be buried alive! It is a struggle for hope, for freedom, for life itself.”
Prisoners of Korydallos Prison

Since 28/10/22 the prisoners of the Greek hellholes have been sending their own message of resistance against the new toughened penal code by carrying out a Circle of escalating mobilizations.

Their demands include the return of prisons to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, the abolition of C-type prisons, the right to 1/5 off the sentence for all (from 5/6) and 8 years for multi-lifers, the right to request a transfer to a rural detention centre for all without exception, to bring back the amendments to the article on educational leave, temporary leave to be made independently of the prisoner’s disciplinary record, and the immediate granting of leave to people with 67% or more disability, such as Savvas Xiros, who is being held vindictively and sadistically incarcerated, with a disability of 98%. This mobilization is essential resistance of the prisoners with the few means they have.

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Italy: EN/ IT/ FR/ ES/ GR/ DE, On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, anarchist Alfredo Cospito ended the hunger strike he began 181 days earlier, on Oct. 20, 2022.

Anarchist Alfredo Cospito ended his hunger strike undertaken since Oct. 20

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, anarchist Alfredo Cospito ended the hunger strike he began 181 days earlier, on Oct. 20, 2022, inside the Bancali prison in Sardinia. The comrade, who is currently an inmate in the prison medicine ward of the San Paolo Hospital in Milan, had been on an all-out hunger strike for six months against the detention regime established by Article 41 bis of the Penitentiary Order (a regime to which he had been transferred on May 5, 2022) and against the hostile life sentence, which risked being the final sentence for the comrade at the end of the Scripta Manent trial.

The interruption of the hunger strike comes in the wake of the April 18 hearing in Rome at the Constitutional Court, which recognized the prevalence of mitigating circumstances vis-à-vis repeated recidivism in the case of all convictions for crimes whose fixed penalty is life imprisonment. This is the case of Alfredo, in that with the requalification (by the court of cassation, at the end of the Scripta Manent trial) of the charge inherent in the double explosive attack against the Caserma Allievi Carabinieri in Fossano on June 2, 2006, from “common massacre” (art. 422 c. p.) to “political massacre” (i.e., “massacre for the purpose of attacking the security of the state,” art. 285 c. p.), comrades Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino were facing a sentence of hostile life imprisonment and 27 years in prison, respectively, as requested by the Turin prosecutor’s office.

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Rome Italy: About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for the anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial.

About the constitutional court hearing on the convictions for the anarchists Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino in the Scripta Manent trial (Rome, 18 April 2023)

Today the hearing took place in the constitutional court for the case of Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino concerning the accusation of political massacre (art. 285 c. p.) within the Scripta Manent trial.
The existing Cirielli law (year 2005, Berlusconi government) prevents mitigating factors from outweighing aggravating factors in the event of recidivism. Particularly in Alfredo Cospito’s case, this would have resulted in a definite sentence of life imprisonment despite the fact that the action he and Anna are accused of did not cause any victims.

The court therefore found this rule unconstitutional. What is more, reading the brief press release that came out of the courthouse, the court seems to have raised doubts of constitutionality in general with regard to all those cases where the fixed penalty is uniquely life imprisonment.

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Athens,Greece : ALFREDO OUT OF 41 BIS!

ALFREDO OUT OF 41 BIS!

Open assembly to organize a response commensurate with the importance of the situation

The struggle waged by anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito against the 41bis prison regime and the life imprisonment without parole has reached its most dramatic point. Notwithstanding the opening of contradictions (opinion of the DNAA, opinion of the DDA of Turin, opinion of the PG at the Court of Cassation, order of the re-examination of the Sibilla Operation) every time an institutional organism with effective power to resolve the question opened by the comrade has met, the most manectarian and warmongering faction of the State has invested all its political power to crush any possible opening.

We have said it too many times: Alfredo’s death sentence is now an established fact, if the comrade is still alive we owe it solely to his extraordinary resistance. The decision to lock up an anarchist in 41 bis prison regime for the first time, taken by the previous Draghi government and Minister Marta Cartabia, as well as the determination to persevere in this criminal choice by the new right-wing government of Meloni and the current minister Carlo Nordio, count as an act of war. The tip of the iceberg of the “internal front” of a larger war, which on the international level is fought between NATO and the Russian Federation, and which is being expressed in our home with an unprecedented attack against social antagonism, against conflictual unionism and especially against action anarchism.

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Genoa, Italy: Claim for the incendiary attack on some vehicles of Iren in solidarity with anarchist prisoners (31 March 2023)

Genoa,: Claim for the incendiary attack on some vehicles of Iren in solidarity with anarchist prisoners.

Democracy cannot allow certain thoughts to be spelled out clearly, and certain words to be used with impunity, because they might catch on among the oppressed, the excluded. These words without stakes take on greater weight for me because they have cost me and will cost me more years in jail, but it is my way of resisting, of fighting back.
Alfredo Cospito (January 2021)

In the night of 31st March we attacked some vehicles of the IREN company with fire, Italy’s leading district heating service company, operating in electricity production and distribution and technology services.

IREN is a new company but with a veteran entrepreneurial posture in line with all other criminal multinationals like ENI and Benetton who profit from the destruction and plundering of territories around the planet. That was sufficient for putting the IREN group in our sights; if we then add news of recent weeks, that IREN struck agreements with the Israeli Mekorot water company implementing water apartheid to the Palestinian people, then the decision to attack it was more than spot on.

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direct action news against local parliament building in Bandung, West Java in Indonesia by Free Association of Autonomous Fires – FAI/IRF

On 10th April, we strike a blow against local parliament building in Bandung, West Java (Indonesia).Armed with propane bomb and molotovs, we managed to destroy huge part of the building resulting in wildfires that destroy most of their archives. During endless demonstration against the newly labour law, where most of the protesters are consisting of
movement brokers, wanna-be politician, social anarchists, we choose to strike at a different place.

As we will never beg or demand the so
called rights from the powers that be.

This action is dedicated to Alfredo Cospito, Toby Shone, Monica and Fransisco, Chilean and Greek anarchists imprisoned, and to all anarchist insurgents everywhere!

For Anarchy and destruction of the existent

Free Association of Autonomous Fires – FAI/IRF

Germany: Correct addresses for imprisoned anarchist comrades in Hamburg for the so-called Parkbank trial.

Imprisoned anarchist comrades in Hamburg was wrong here the correct
adresses:

(350/23/1)
JVA Billwerder
Dweerlandweg 100
22113 Hamburg
Germany

and
(63/23/6)
JVA Glasmoor
Am Glasmoor 99
22851 Norderstedt
Germany

Freedom and luck!

——-

ps: 26. Februar 2023

+++ Prison sentence suspended!+++

In the past weeks, the appeal trial against the companion in the so-called Parkbank trial took place at the Hamburg Regional Court, in which three comrades were sentenced for conspiring to commit the crime of arson in 2021.

The current appeal trial took place on 2 days, but this time we decided to save ourselves the media hype and to accompany the process with friends and companions.
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Terni, Italy: Repressive operation of 28th March: Zac has been transferred from the prison of Secondigliano to that of Terni + Account details.

Terni, Italy: Repressive operation of 28th March: Zac has been transferred from the prison of Secondigliano to that of Terni + Account details for sending contributions in support of the comrade
Zac has been transferred to Terni and is in a cell with Juan.

To write to him:
Marco Marino
C. C. di Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 Terni

to send contributions in support of the comrade:
(THE CORRECT DATA FOR THE TRANSFER is the following and not those already in circulation).
For those who would like to send solidarity contributions to Zac, anarchist prisoner held in the prison of Terni following the repressive operation in Naples and Pozzuoli on March 28 2023, we invite you to send money by bank transfer:

IBAN: IT07V360810518299544199741
Codice BIC/SWIFT: PPAYITR1XXX
Intestario: Luca d’Esposito
Causale: ricarica

Received by email and published in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/04/operazione-repressiva-del-28-marzo-zac-e-stato-trasferito-dal-carcere-di-secondigliano-a-quello-di-terni/

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Italy: Action against a vehicle of the SNAM in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the end (Rovereto, March 2023)

Action against a vehicle of the SNAM in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the end (Rovereto, March 2023)

March 2023 / Trentino

During the week of 13th March we damaged a vehicle of the SNAM company, a multinational engaged in environmental devastation through pipeline construction, not far from Rovereto, we punctured the tyres, smashed the windows and headlights.

Not far away we wrote NO 41 BIS ALFREDO FREE. This action is a small gesture of solidarity with the anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike to the end against 41 bis and whole life sentence. Strength comrade you are not alone! against 41 bis and whole life sentence!
Death to the state! for Anarchy.

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Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu, Angol, and Temuco in Solidarity with Temucuicui and Pilmaiken Against Escalated Government Repression

Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu, Angol, and Temuco in Solidarity with Temucuicui and Pilmaiken Against Escalated Government Repression

March 7, 2023

Mapuche political prisoners of the Lebu, Angol, and Temuco prisons issue communiques demonstrating their solidarity and concern faced with the events that represent escalated repression against communities in resistence by the current government.

They also mention the three Mapuche political prisoners in the Angol prison – Palacios Cañuta, Simón Huenchullan Millanao and Jorge Palacios Cañuta, who have been on hunger strike since February 27 for their transfer to CET (Study and Work Center) in Victoria. From Lebu they say they are alert to this situation and do not rule out the possibility of mobilizations.

At the same time they call for the communities in resistence and Mapuche autonomist movement to strengthen themselves in the face of what is a clear persecution on the part of the current social democratic government and in conjunction with sectors of the ultra-right and those which are historically anti-Mapuche. The repressive policies are deepening in order to ensure extractive capitalist investments in Wallmapu (the great Mapuche territory).

Public Declaration of Mapuche Political Prisoners of Lebu Prison:

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EN/GR/: Important updates on the health condition and the condition of imprisonment for the anarchist Alfredo Cospito (Italy)

Important updates on the health condition and the condition of inprisonment for the anarchist Alfredo Cospito

Alfredo has NOT ended the hunger strike!

The news circulated in the media these days is false and slanderous, as is now the habit in this story: he was offered milk, but Alfredo refused it. If he decides to start eating again, he will follow the instructions given to him by his trusted doctor some time ago.

In view of the hearing on April 18, he decided to resume supplements: potassium to stabilize the heart, vitamins to try to stem the neurological problem in the lower limbs, and proteins. After the hearing at the constitutional court in Rome, called to express itself on the legal legitimacy of granting or not extenuating circumstances in relation to the conviction for 285 c. p. (“massacre for the purpose of undermining the security of the State”, which only provides for life imprisonment) decreed by the cassation in the context of the Scripta Manent process, will decide how to proceed.

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Anti-State Gathering-Demo in Solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 10/20/22 in Italy) Alfredo Cospito on Sunday April 9th, at 13:00, Thiseio Metro Station (Athens,Greece)

Anti-State Gathering-Demo in Solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker (since 10/20/22 in Italy) Alfredo Cospito on Sunday April 9th, at 13:00, Thiseio Metro Station .

FREEDOM TO ALFREDO COSPITO

FIRE TO 41 BIS AND ALL FORMS OF INCARCERATION

Alfredo Cospito is an anarchist who has always been active in the frontline of struggles. He was never willing to compromise nor to give up. He is a comrade who has been fighting since the end of the 80’s, a period during which he was imprisoned as a total conscientious objector (for refusing to serve mandatory military services).

Alfredo has always been active in defending comrades affected by repression, in every corner of the world. He has been contributing for many years with articles, editorial projects and proposals to the international anarchist discussion/debate. For this reason, he has been censored many times and his communication with the “outside world” has been forbidden. He has been in prison for 10 years (since 2012), during which he was in High Security prison sectors until he was transferred to 41bis inMay 2022, from Terni prison to Bankali prison in Sassari.

The 41bis prison regime entails 24/7 electronic surveillance, 1 person per cell of 2×3 meters, 1 hour per day for socializing in a group of 4 people (the seperation into these groups is decided directly by the bureaucrats in Rome and is valid for several months), 1 visit per month of 1 hour with no physical contact, separation with glass divider, under electronic surveillance, with audio and video recording (only if the family members are unable to visit, a monthly 10-minute phone call is allowed as an alternative, but to do so, the prisoner’s family member must go to a police station or in some prison), no physical contact, censorship and control of written material, presence at court only through video-conferences.

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Venice, Italy: appeal sentence for Anarchist comrade Juan Sorroche

Venice: appeal sentence for Anarchist comrade Juan

We’re making it known that on March 28 our Juanito, sentenced to 28 years’ prison in first grade for an action against the premises of the League of Villorba (TV) in 2018, had his sentence reduced to 14 years and 10 months by the appeal court of Venice.

Nevertheless this is still a very high sentence for an action which – beyond the intentions of the anonymous attackers – caused neither dead nor wounded.

Full solidarity to Juan!


via: https://ilrovescio.info/2023/03/31

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