Supporters are warning that Italian anarchist militant Alfredo Cospito is in danger of dying in prison after more than a month on hunger strike. Cospito, being held at Bancali prison in Sassari, Sardinia, began his hunger strike Oct. 20 to protest the inhumane conditions he faces under Article 41-bis [7] of the Italian legal code, with harsh restrictions on his mobility and communication with loved ones, and no prospects for a review of his life sentence. The European Court of Human Rights in 2019 ruled [8] that Article 41-bis, designed for terrorist and Mafia-related cases, violates the European Convention on Human Rights [9].
Cospito is charged in a May 2012 attack on an industrialist in Genoa. Roberto Adinolfi—senior executive of engineering group Ansaldo Nucleare [12], a division of aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica [13] (now named Leonardo [14])—was shot in the leg by a gunman on a motorbike. A group called the "Olga Nucleus [15]" of the Informal Anarchist Federation [16] (FAI [17]) claimed responsibility for the attentat. (Dinamo Press [10], Napoli Monitor [18], Jurist [19], Enough14 [20], BBC News [21])
Cospito's manifesto, read aloud upon his conviction and online at The Anarchist Library [22], reveals him as an exponent of the "anti-civilization" or primitivist wing of the European armed left [23].
