Deputy Premier and Infrastructure
Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday that the people involved in
a wave of vandalism, violent protests and threats in support of
jailed anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito should be imprisoned or
subjected to involuntary hospitalization for being mentally
disturbed.
Cospito has been on hunger strike for over 100 days to protest
against the tough 41 bis jail regime he is being held under.
The 41 bis is usually reserved for mafia bosses.
"Those who express violence should be criminally prosecuted,"
Salvini said.
"Those inciting armed struggle in 2023 should be hospitalized,
sectioned or taken to prison.
"The prison gates are open for those who think they can solve
problems with threats, attacks, insults and by throwing Molotov
cocktails.
"If anyone has nostalgia for the Years of Lead (of political
violence in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s) they should get their
just deserts".
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