(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - Milan prosecutors told surveillance
court judges Friday they were not in favour of allowing
hunger-striking jailed anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito to serve
his sentence under house arrest.
55-year-old Cospito is asking for his 30-year jail term to be
commuted to house arrest on health grounds.
The judges have five days to reach a decision.
The hearing took place in the penitentiary ward of the San Paolo
hospital in Milan, where Cospito is receiving medical treatment
made necessary by a five-month hunger strike against the tough
41 bis prison regime he has been placed under, which is normally
reserved for mafia bosses.
The anarchist leader has now stopped taking supplements and
ingests only water with salt or sugar.
On Wednesday he suffered transient cardiac arrest. (ANSA).
Milan prosecutors oppose Cospito house arrest request
Judges have five days to decide