Italy confused: protesters and police came face to face
According to news from the Italian press, a group of about 500 people from different European cities marched in the center of the city of Turin, in the north of the country, to support the anarchist prisoner Cospito.
The group, which carried banners reading “We are with Alfredo,” chanted slogans such as “Murderers” and “Set fire to the prisons” during the march.
The group, which often lit torches and threw sound bombs during the march, damaged the windows of some shops and banks and the vehicles on the street.
The night was tense in Turin, Italy.
It was reported that 34 protesters were detained in the incidents where the police intervened with tear gas against the protesters.
It was reported that some protesters and 2 police officers were slightly injured during the events.
ACTIONS STARTED LAST MONTH
The anarchist leader Cospito, who is serving 10 years in prison for his sentence for attacking State security in different events in which he participated, has been in strict isolation since May 2022, within the framework of the law known to the public as “41bis”, considering that it incited violence in the messages it sent outside the prison.
Protests were held in different cities of the country last month for Cospito, whose condition worsened due to his hunger strike.
Cospito’s lawyer petitioned the Supreme Court to lift his client’s heavy prison sentence, but on February 24, the high court rejected this request.
For Alfredo Cospito, the entrance to the Italian Consulate General in Barcelona, Spain, was destroyed in January, the vehicle of the Italian diplomat who worked at the embassy in Berlin, the capital of Germany, was set on fire.
It was claimed that the acts of violence against Italian diplomats were carried out by international anarchist groups to protest the situation of Cospito on hunger strike. (AA)