Cospito remains in 41-bis, inadmissible the petition against hard imprisonment

The anarchist Alfredo Cospito remains in 41-bis. The Cassazione has declared inadmissible the petition filed by Cospito's defence against the decision of the Rome Supervisory Court that on 23 October had confirmed the hard prison sentence for the man currently detained in Sassari. During yesterday's hearing, the Attorney General of the Supreme Court had said 'no' to the appeal presented by lawyer Flavio Rossi Albertini, who today announced the Supreme Court's decision.

The Rome Supervision Court had justified its rejection of Alfredo Cospito's 'extreme social dangerousness'. The opinion had also been requested by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, which on 19 October last, before the Rome surveillance court, had declared itself in favour of the early revocation of the 41-bis prison term. In the Surveillance Court's opinion, however, Cospito is a person who has shown particular determination and is therefore respected by his associates. The Capitoline Court had not shared, considering them inconsistent, the conclusions of the Dna according to which, from the multiplicity of decision-making channels, a reduced dangerousness of Cospito would be inferred, who, instead, is described as a leading figure of the movement as deduced by the same Dna through the textual reference of the note of the Central Director of the Prevention Police. Today, the Court of Cassation rejected the defence counsel's petition, with grounds to be filed.

Satisfied with the Supreme Court's verdict, the undersecretary of Justice Andrea Ostellari 'The Court of Cassation has confirmed what we have been arguing for a long time: the anarchist Alfredo Cospito must remain in prison,' Ostellari states, 'and serve his sentence according to the regime provided for in Article 41 bis of the prison regulations. No discounts or rewards for enemies of the state. No backward steps in the face of blackmail by the violent".

On the same wavelength was the note by Andrea Delmastro delle Vedove, deputy of Fratelli d'Italia and Undersecretary of State for Justice. "The Supreme Court has written the definitive page on the Cospito case, confirming the 41 bis regime against him.
We have always defended democratic institutions from the violence of terrorism, without any indulgence and without being intimidated. With today's decision," writes Delmastro, "the Court of Cassation confirms that there were and currently are all the legal prerequisites for maintaining the hard prison regime against Cospito. A decision that indirectly confirms the legitimacy and legitimacy of the Government's positions: no yielding - concludes the deputy of Fratelli d'Italia - no retreat, no hesitation in the frontal contrast to anarchist terrorism, especially if it is connoted by its current violent and subversive revolutionary charge".

Of an entirely different tone, of course, is the reaction of Alfedo Cospito's defender, Flavio Rossi Albertini, who denounces the political climate. 'Reading undersecretary Ostellari's comment,' says the lawyer, 'and recalling Del Mastro's judicial affair, the well-founded suspicion arises that the Cospito affair has been profoundly influenced by politics.