WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria, July: Cospito-Beniamino sentence (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On 26 June a sentence was issued in the appeal process bis Scripta

Manent: Alfredo Cospito was sentenced to 23 years, Anna Beniamino to 17
years and 9 months. ---- It was the recalculation of the sentence in the
light of the redefinition of the events of Fossano from a common
massacre to a simple massacre. Given the recognition of the right to
extenuating circumstances recognized by the Constitutional Court, this
is the "best" result possible in that legal context. Attorney General
Saluzzo had in fact asked for life imprisonment for Cospito and 27 years
and 1 month for Beniamino. ---- The application of the crime of
political massacre in an attack without victims with little material
damage is a choice that falls within the logic of the enemy's criminal
law. The logic according to which the mere questioning of the sovereign
powers of the State is enough to bury in jail for a small assassination
attempt. In the courtroom, the two accused comrades declared themselves
extraneous to those facts.

Anna Beniamino (June 19): "Anarchists are anti-authoritarian. Anarchists
are not massacres and much less do they defend massacres.

The massacres that have been perpetrated in this country have been the
poisoned fruit of the intertwining of political and economic power, the
furthest thing from anti-authoritarian thought and practices.

We are in a political process for which the reality of the facts does
not apply but the power of the suggestions, the more abnormal and
axiomatic the accusation is, the more the defense is frustrated.

We continue to talk about massacres but the real one is the one carried
out on the reality of the facts. You have invented the anarchist
"leaders", the "associations" functioning in fits and starts or
structured like Chinese boxes in which it is no longer even clear which
are the containers and which the contents, the "probabilistic" graphic
appraisals to attribute the facts, the last gem in chronological order
was the collusion between anarchists and mafiosi. The inquisitors lie
knowing they are lying and shielding themselves from the anarchists'
reluctance to the justice market. They play on the fact that anarchist
ethics are not for sale to the highest bidder.

The infernal machine of DNA (National Anti-Mafia Directorate) which has
become DNAA (National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate) needs
scalps to grind consensus and to fortify the scaffolding of preventive
repression: internal enemies are needed, no matter how artfully constructed

with historical, political, factual and procedural falsehoods, otherwise
the car runs out of petrol and the special regimes deprived of flesh and
souls.

Today only our head is left on the plate, but it should not be forgotten
that for years dozens of compañeras and compañeros have been
investigated and imprisoned in this and in parallel, self-perpetuating
proceedings. As happened for the proceedings that led to the 41bis for
Alfredo

Conspito: the scaffolding of the Bialystok and Sibilla operations
collapse, there are no leaders and instigators... but the 41bis remains.

I see a tragic irony in all of this: the various inquisitors stumble not
even knowing the substance of the accusation well, they fill their
papers with blatant falsehoods and contradictions, it is enough to get
to the result. Nothing strange: it is the sick ethics of this era where
murderous profit is sanctified and poverty is criminalized."

Afredo Cospito (June 19): The conviction that I have formed this year is
that the 41 bis does not have the real objective of breaking the
phenomenon of criminal organizations. But to put a gag on a generation
of mafiosi, which the state used and then betrayed 30 years ago. Locking
them in here until death shuts their mouths forever, and this out of
fear that once they are out the dark secrets of the republic may be exposed.

This is, as I said, the open secret behind the untouchability of this
regime.

The 41 bis will be removed when the last inconvenient witness of that
era is dead. This of course if it is not extended to the rest of the
so-called "justice system", barbarism tends to spread, and can get out
of hand. There are many similarities between the mafia and the state,
hegemonic will, monopoly of violence, hierarchy, authoritarianism. But
then once inside I realized that in addition to these undoubted common
characteristics there is a sort of "original sin" that needs a
liberticidal system like the 41 bis to keep the pieces together, without
which the system as a whole it would fall apart. The untouchability of
the 41 bis consists precisely in this, its having become the focal point
of the whole totalitarian democratic system, the true face of the
Italian republic.

For the rest, what can I say.... nothing has changed, the photos of my
parents seized a year ago here in Sassari, and returned with the
censorship stamp upon my arrival at the Opera, held again upon my
arrival in Sassari. No music, my request to buy a CD player rejected by
the prison management. Apparently books and music continue to be seen by
the DAP as something subversive and basically they are not entirely wrong.

Since I've been in 41 bis I haven't touched a blade of grass, a tree, a
flower, only concrete, bars and TV. In recent months, with great effort,
I have managed to buy only one book, and only because the media was
talking about me. The interviews only once a month with glass and with
the metallic voice of the intercoms. My sisters and my brother who are
the only ones who can come to visit me are plastered on their tattoos
and earrings upon their arrival, because they could communicate cryptic
messages through the tattooed designs.

In any case, these complaints of mine become ridiculous after what I saw
at the Opera clinical centre. I have seen with my own eyes the state
which pretends to be ethical in applying the law of retaliation on the
old and sick, defenseless and semi-insane. My naive request for books,
music, anarchist, scientific, historical periods and a lawn where to run
and of some trees it becomes laughable almost cloying. I realize."

Abolish the 41 bis

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