(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 3 - Justice Undersecretary Andrea Ostellari was placed under a police escort Friday after threats from supporters of jailed anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito who has been on hunger strike for over 100 days against the hard 41 bis prison regime he is under, a treatment normally only reserved for mafia bosses.
    Ostellari, a Paduan lawyer and leading member of the rightwing League party, has been given the brief for inmates treatment as part of his work at the justice ministry, the Corriere del Veneto reported.
    Cospito, 55, has lost over 45 kg and is in deteriorating health but determined to continue his fight to get 41 bis lifted for all prisoners.
    Ostellari will be given police protection amid widespread threats and attacks by anarchists in Italy and abroad in support of Cospito's fight.
    Cospito, head of the Informal Anarchists Federation (FAI), is serving 30 years for two attacks.
    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).