Cospito staged a six-month hunger strike against the 41 bis, which is normally reserved for Mafia bosses, that spurred anarchists in Italy and abroad to stage violent protests and arson attacks in his support.
He ended the hunger strike in April following a Constitutional Court ruling on one of the cases he is in prison for.
He is serving time for the bombing of a Carabinieri school in the Piedmontese city of Fossano on June 2, 2006, in which nobody was harmed, and the kneecapping a nuclear company executive in 2012.
Cospito’s battle against the 41 bis regime, which mandates almost complete isolation, was not only for himself but for all other prisoners being held under it.
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