The case of Alfredo Cospito threatens to reignite protests among the anti-establishment movement, ready to return to the streets in the coming hours. The anarchist, held in the high-security prison in Sassari, will likely see his Article 41 bis prison sentence extended for at least another two years. According to sources on Via Arenula, the Ministry of Justice is moving toward extending the harsh prison regime.

The expiration date of the first measure on Cospito dates back to the ministerial decree of May 4, 2022, and it is precisely close to that date that the bar is set to be further extended to 2028 , following verification of the prisoner's persistent ability to maintain contacts with criminal or terrorist organizations. On the other side, a group of about fifty anarchists recently gathered in Rome's working-class Pigneto neighborhood for a public meeting with the unequivocal slogan: "Alfredo out of 41 bis."

Faced with a massive deployment of law enforcement, the activists have relaunched their mobilization, meeting tomorrow afternoon in front of the Ministry of Justice and then marching on Saturday, April 18th, again in the capital. These events have already been under the spotlight of the Interior Ministry, which in recent days has implemented for the first time the "preventive detention" for demonstrations, introduced by the government's latest security decree. The measure was applied on March 29th against 91 people at the ceremony in Rome commemorating the anarchists Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano, the two militants who died on March 19th while making a bomb in a farmhouse in the Parco degli Acquedotti.

This latest episode had prompted the Ministry of the Interior to "further strengthen the prevention strategy," while just a few days earlier, Minister Matteo Piantedosi had highlighted the risk of "an escalation of the conflict" due to "an emerging attempt by subversive anarchist groups," in reference to the recent significant increase in "small but serious attacks on railway lines."

The alert remains high, while the opposition's mobilization now once again concerns the detention of Cospito, a long-time militant of the Informal Anarchist Federation, who has been under the 41 bis regime since May 2022. Between October of that same year and April 2023, the anarchist of Abruzzo origins went on a long hunger strike to protest those detention conditions. He is currently serving sentences for the June 2, 2006, attack on the Carabinieri training school in Fossano (Cuneo) and for the shooting of Ansaldo Nucleare executive Roberto Adinolfi on May 7, 2012.

(Unioneonline)

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