Cospito battling against 'violation of rights' - lawyer

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 1 - A lawyer representing Alfredo Cospito on Wednesday confirmed that the jailed Italian anarchist leader who has been on hunger strike for over 100 days is protesting against the tough 41 bis jail regime and not just the fact that he is being detained under it.
    The 41 bis is usually reserved for mafia bosses.
    "Cospito does not have a suicidal vocation," said the lawyer, Flavio Rossi Albertini.
    "He doesn't want to die and he is ready to stop if they suspend the 41 bis for him.
    "He is on hunger strike to protest against the measure that has been applied to him but, as an anarchist, his battle is not just a personal one.
    "He does not limit himself to denouncing the illegitimacy of the measure, but, at the same time, he is also denouncing the fact that the 41 bis regime is a violation of human rights".
    Anarchist groups have embarked on a wave of violent protests and acts of vandalism against public institutions in relation to Cospito's case.
    He is serving 20 years for a bomb attack on a Carabinieri police training academy at Fossano near Cuneo in Piedmont in 2006 and a further 10 years and eight months for kneecapping Ansaldo Nucleare Managing Director Roberto Adinolfi in Genoa in 2012.
    (ANSA).