There was violence and vandalism in
Turin on Monday when around 250 anarchists took to the streets
in protest out of solidarity for a jailed member of their group.
The protestors, many wearing helmets, let off flares and
firecrackers and sprayed graffiti on the walls of banks and,
when a barman went out to complain about the vandalism, he was
roughed up.
The protest was being staged on the day of a hearing at the
city's court of a appeal regarding the cases of Alfredo Cospito
and Anna Beniamino, jailed members of Informal Anarchist
Federation (FAI).
Cospito and Beniamino are both on hunger strike to protest
against the tough 41 bis jail regime for terrorists and mafiosi
that the former is being held under in Sassari prison.
FAI is an insurrectionary anarchist organization that has
carried out terrorist attacks it calls acts of "revolutionary
armed action" in Italy and abroad over the last few years.
It is opposed to capitalism, nationalism, and Marxism.
FAI is accused of carrying out some 60 subversive attacks in
almost 20 years of activity, with the stated aim of bringing
about the "destruction of the State and capital" by targeting
the structures of "domination".
It is suspected that anarchists were behind the firebombing last
week of a car belonging to Susanna Schlein, a senior official at
the Italian embassy in Athens.
Before the attack slogans were daubed on the embassy expressing
support for Cospito.
One of the protest slogans read: "the 41 bis regime in Italy is
torture".
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