Luigi Manconi’s letter to Pope Francis: “With Cospito our dignity would die”
The Cassation brought forward from 20 April to 7 March the hearing in which the request for revocation of article 41 bis will be discussed for Alfred Cospito. Flavio Rossi Albertini, the anarchist’s lawyer, made the decision public, the result of “a provision by the President”.
Thanks for the effort, without irony, but there is a concrete risk that it will not be enough. The conditions of Cospito are very serious and the guarantor of the prisoners of Sassari invokes that his “urgent transfer in a facility capable of guaranteeing immediate medical intervention in the event of acute situations, a high risk given the severe stress to which his organism has been subjected for months. The Sassari prison does not have a clinical center inside or in the surrounding area there are no health facilities able to ensure any urgent interventions with due safety”.
Perhaps not everyone understands the dramatic nature of the situation which, in all honesty, we thought we had explained well in this public appeal to Minister Nordio.
Evidently it is not enough, just as the almost unanimous declarations of various political exponents are not enough. And then there is no surrender but to hope for Pope francescoas indeed the former senator does Luigi Manconi, member of Amnesty International and founder of A good right Onlus. In a letter addressed to Bergoglio, Manconi invites him to intervene, because “with Cospito our dignity would die”.
“By the conventional parameters, which are fatally mine too, he is not innocent. He has committed serious crimes and for these he has suffered severe sentences. Now this man he is dying, because he decided to react to what he considers an unprecedented injustice, putting his life at risk and subjecting his body to a very harsh fast. I too consider the fate to which he seems destined to be an intolerable iniquity, even if he himself embarked on a hunger strike”, writes the sociologist. We’ll see if it will be enough to move the Pope and, above all, to make the Cassation understand that the advance to March 7 is certainly a gesture of openness, but it risks not being enough.
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