Overview
- The Tribunale di Sorveglianza di Roma rejected defender Flavio Rossi Albertini’s appeal on July 1, leaving Cospito in 41‑bis isolation at the prison in Sassari following a ministerial renewal.
- The Justice Ministry’s renewal relied on favourable opinions from the Direzione Nazionale Antimafia, the Turin district anti‑mafia office and the Viminale’s prevention police, which said the anarchist milieu connected to Cospito remains a concrete danger.
- The tribunal cited recent investigative events, including the March 19 Parco degli Acquedotti deaths, as evidence of active anarchist cells that, investigators say, justify severing a detainee’s ability to coordinate from prison.
- Cospito’s defence disputes the factual links and timeliness of those claims, noting acquittals in earlier probes, arguing that the last FAI‑claimed attacks date to 2022–2023, and saying the cited individuals had no proven ties to the group.
- The decision follows a long history: Cospito was definitively sentenced to 33 years for two attacks, has been in 41‑bis since 2022 and staged a high‑profile hunger strike in early 2023, and his challenge to 41‑bis was already dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights last September.