Perugia court revokes Cospito pre-trial detention order

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - A court in Perugia has revoked a pre-trial detention order for already incarcerated hunger-striking anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito and five other suspects in relation to a case concerning the contents of a magazine publication, defence sources told Ansa Thursday.
    Cospito and the other suspects face charges of incitement to commit crimes, including for the purposes of terrorism as an aggravating factor, and subversion of the democratic order in relation to publication of an interview published by the anarchist magazine 'Vetriolo'.
    Cospito has been on hunger strike since October to protest against the tough 41 bis prison regime that he is being held under in relation to separate convictions for a bomb attack on a Carabinieri police training academy in Piedmont in 2006 and for a kneecapping attack in 2012.
    His supporters have embarked on a wave of threats, acts of vandalism and violent protests, including rioting in Turin in early March and a firecracker explosion at the Italian consulate in New York on Tuesday. (ANSA).