Neither with the state nor with Cospito? Paper follies
What some newspapers and columnists write about and raving about Cospito. Damato's Scratches
That very acidic headline on the front page of Domani , Carlo De Benedetti's newspaper, against Giorgia Meloni, engaged in the "strategy of tension" on the Cospito case , must also have been inspired by the reproach – let's call it that – personally made by the president of the I advise the anarchist prisoner on hunger strike to have already obtained the pardon of the then President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga with this type of protest. Who freed him from prison for repeated evasion of military service. But then he used the freedom generously granted to him by the state to go down the road of anarchy to the point of throwing an engineer in the legs, whose work he did not share in the nuclear sector, and carrying out a series of bomb attacks without victims, fortunately, but always attacks, thus ending up in jail. And also procuring the special detention regime of the now famous article 41 bis, from which he would like to get out at any cost, even by starving to death.
WHAT THEY WROTE TOMORROW AND THE PRESS ON COSPITO
Not only Tomorrow with that title in which the roles are reversed, attributing to Meloni and not to Cospito and his sympathizers the tension that has now also reached the squares, with demonstrations and with those posters posted at the University of Rome against the "murderers" of the faster who crowd the leaders of the state; not only Tomorrow with that title, I was saying, but even a surprising Mattia Feltri in the press took the field to defend Cospito. Who was promoted from anarchist and bomber to "reformist" for having contributed with his first fasts to the abolition of compulsory military service.
Ah, Matthias. All that was needed was for you too to begin, as others have already done, to compare Cospito's fasts to those of the late Marco Pannella. Luckily for whose memory one of his best equipped biographers, Walter Vecellio, intervened today on Doubt to put things in their place, without making stomach-churning confusions like the one already attempted, always by others, comparing Cospito's detention to the imprisonment of Aldo Moro kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
COMPARISONS WITH PANNELLA
Pannella's fasts – Vecellio recalled – were "initiatives of dialogue, constructive, institutional, aimed at helping those who govern to find other solutions". "This – insisted Vecellio – was the essence of the concrete non-violent and not at all utopian practiced by Pannella: Unfortunately it really seems that Cospito is on another dimension".
It doesn't seem like it, Valter, but it is certainly on another dimension, as evidenced by the refusal he opposes to the parliamentarians who go to visit him, and to the other prisoners with whom he manages to speak even in harsh prison conditions, to requests for judge the atrocities that are shouted and carried out outside the prison in his defense, if we don't want to say in his name. Neither Moro nor Pannella can be placed in Cospito's anarchist Pantheon.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cospito-domani-la-stampa/ on Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:39:50 +0000.