I have nothing to do with the mafia - Cospito (3)

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 3 - Jailed anarchist Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for over 100 days to protest against the tough 41 bis jail regime he is being held under, has stressed to the people he has talked to in Milan's Opera prison that he has nothing to do with the mafia, sources said on Friday.
    The 41 bis is usually reserved for mafia bosses.
    Cospito has said via his lawyer that he is staging the protest against the jail regime itself and not just to get himself out of it.
    "I have nothing to do with the mafia," Cospito said, according to the sources.
    "I want the 41 bis cancelled for everyone because it is an instrument that takes away fundamental freedoms.
    "I have seen elderly and ill mafiosi (in 41 bis), people who are no longer dangerous". (ANSA).