The prosecution made its request during a second appeal trial against Cospito, a member of the Informal Anarchist Federation – International Revolutionary Front, to review the sentence for the bombing, currently set at 20 years.
Cospito attended the trial by video linkup from Sassari jail, where he is serving a combined 30-year sentence under Italy’s tough 41 bis prison regime for the Fossano bombing, in which two Carabinieri were injured, and for kneecapping a nuclear company executive in 2012, for which he was given 10 years.
In April, Cospito, 55, suspended a hunger strike he began on October 20 in protest against his prison regime, which is normally reserved for Mafia bosses, after the Constitutional Court paved the way for his sentence not to be commuted into a life term for the attack on the Carabinieri cadet school.
His appeals to be released from 41 bis, which mandates almost complete isolation from the outside world, have been turned down by Justice Minister Carlo Nordio as well as the courts.
Cospito said his battle against, what he calls, ‘the regime’, is not only for himself but for all other prisoners being held under it, including mafiosi, and has spurred anarchists in Italy and abroad to stage violent protests and arson attacks in his support.
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