Envelope with a bullet: intimidation of the prosecutor who accuses Cospito

An envelope with a bullet and the anarchist symbol "A" drawn on a sheet.

Intimidation against the Attorney General of Turin, Francesco Saluzzo, who with the prosecutor Paolo Scafi supports the accusation in the trial at the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Turin against the anarchist Alfredo Cospito - detained in the Bancali prison under the regime of 41 bis - of which he asked for a life sentence and twelve months of daytime isolation for the attack on the carabinieri school of Fossano (Cuneo) in 2005.

For Cospito's partner, Anna Beniamino, the prosecution asked for 27 years and one month in prison. A month ago, the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Turin decided to send the documents to the Constitutional Court, accepting the question of constitutional legitimacy on the extenuating factor with respect to the crime of political massacre. The investigations are conducted by the Digos of Turin and coordinated by the Milan prosecutor's office.

Meanwhile, jurists, intellectuals and religious took to the field yesterday with an appeal addressed to the Minister of Justice and to the entire government to "emerge from the indifference in which they have remained in recent months", making "a gesture of humanity and courage" in against Cospito, "one step away from death" due to the hunger strike that has been going on for 80 days . The request is the revocation of 41 bis, the harsh prison regime to which Cospito has been subjected since 4 May in the Sassari prison and which is at the origin of his decision to refuse food. The anarchist would have lost 35 kilos.

For now, there are about forty signatures, but the collection of subscriptions continues. Alongside the president emeritus of the Constitutional Court and former Minister of Justice Giovanni Maria Flick, there are Gherardo Colombo, leading magistrate of the Milan prosecutor's office at the time of Mani Pulite and today president of Garzanti Libri, the philosopher of law of the philosopher Luigi Ferrajoli, the president of the Union of Criminal Chambers Giandomenico Caiazza and many retired magistrates such as the former Pg of Florence Beniamino Deidda, Domenico Gallo, Nello Rossi, Livio Pepino, today president of Volere la Luna and editorial director of Edizioni Gruppo Abele and Franco Ippolito , currently president of the Basso Foundation. Among the intellectuals are the philosopher Massimo Cacciari and the actor, musician and writer Moni Ovadia. While among the religious Don Luigi Ciotti, founder of Libera, and Father Alex Zanotelli, a Comboni missionary.

(Unioneonline/D)