Cospito mulling appeal to ECHR

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 28 - Hunger striking anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito is mulling an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after Italy's top court on Friday rejected his plea to be released from the tough 41 bis prison regime he is being subjected to and which is normally just reserved for mafia bosses, his lawyers said Tuesday.
    The Cassation Court on Friday ruled that Cospito, 55, who has been on hunger strike and lost 50 kg in the last four and a half months, could still run anarchist operations from prison if he were returned to normal or even high-security custody.
    Cospito, head of the Informal Anarchists Federation (FAI), has vowed to press on "to the end" with his campaign to have the 41 bis lifted for all inmates including mafiosi, while anarchists have pledged a campaign of violence after the Cassation ruling.
    Judicial sources said Monday that the justice ministry will be paying the utmost attention to Cospito's state of health.
    He recently resumed taking supplements as the Cassation was expected to rule in his favour, but has dropped them again and has also given up sugar.
    His doctor said at the weekend he was "gravely malnourished" amid fears for his heart.
    On Monday Cospito was transferred back to Milan's Opera prison, to the Integrated Care Service there.
    The anarchist had been in the San Paolo hospital in Milan for several days due to his health condition.
    Cospito, who was recently moved from Sardinia to the Milan prison where medical facilities are better, is serving 20 years for a bomb attack on a Carabinieri police training academy at Fossano near Cuneo in Piedmont in 2006 and a further 10 years and eight months for kneecapping Ansaldo Nucleare Managing Director Roberto Adinolfi in Genoa in 2012. (ANSA).