Boost security agst pro-Cospito attacks says Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 30 - The foreign ministry must boost security at all diplomatic offices against anarchist attacks supporting jailed leader Alfredo Cospito's hunger strike against his tough mafia-style prison regime, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in Florence Monday.
    "This afternoon I will inform the Cabinet of the steps taken by the Foreign Ministry to ensure the security of our diplomatic offices abroad. We have asked to strengthen security", Tajani told journalists on the recent wave of attacks on Italian diplomatic offices at home and abroad.
    "The attacks worry us, but this does not mean that the government is willing to deal with those who use violence, it is unacceptable," Tajani added, reiterating that security measures at the foreign ministry in Rome, the Farnesina itself, will be strengthened.
    Cospito, 55, is in poor health after being on hunger striker for over 100 days to protest against being held under the tough 41 bis jail regime usually reserved for mafia bosses.
    Italian diplomatic offices in Berlin and Barcelona were subjected to vandalism last week and anarchist groups were engaged in violent clashes with police in the Trastevere district of Rome on Saturday night.
    A policeman was injured in those clashes and 41 people have been cited over them.
    Anarchists are also thought to have been behind a Molotov cocktail attack on a Rome police station at the weekend. These are only the latest in a series of such acts in Italy and abroad linked to anarchists in recent months. (ANSA).