We receive and translate comrade Alfredo Cospito’s declaration
to the court at the first hearing (October 30 2013) of the trial for the wounding of Ansaldo Nucleare managing director Roberto Adinolfi
Translated by act for freedom now/B.pd-Sysiphus
From the belly of the Leviathan
‘… dreams are to be realized here and now, not in a hypothetical future, because the future has always been sold by priests of whatever religion or ideology in order to steal from us with impunity. We want a present worth living and not simply sacrificed to the messianic expectation of a future earthly paradise. For this reason we wanted to talk of an anarchy to be realized now and not in the future. The “everything now” is a bet, a game we play where the stakes are our lives, everybody’s life, and our death, everybody’s death…’
Pierleone Mario Porcu
‘Science is the eternal sacrifice of life, fleeting, ephemeral but real, on the altar of eternal abstractions. What I predict is therefore the revolt of life against the government of science.’
Mikhail Bakunin
‘Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.
Art – the Arts – arose supreme, and, once enthroned, cast chains upon the intellect which had elevated them to power.’
Edgar Allan Poe
‘The empire that reigns sovereign founded on nothing is collapsing.
It cannot bear the weight of truth.
I recommend a massive dose of life!
I recommend a massive dose of life!
At least that way you will be able to say you have lived it.’
Congegno
‘Bastards… I know who sent you!!’
Roberto Adinolfi
In a wonderful morning in May I acted, and in the space of a few hours I fully enjoyed my life. For once I left fear and self-justification behind and defied the unknown. In a Europe dotted with nuclear power stations, one of those mainly responsible for the nuclear disaster to come fell at my feet. I want to be absolutely clear: the Olga FAI/FRI nucleus is only Nicola and I. No one else took part in this action or helped or planned it. Nobody knew about our project.
I won’t allow my action to be placed within an obscene and absurd media and judicial cauldron in order to divert attention from its real goal, a cauldron made of ‘subversion of the democratic order’, ‘conspiracy’, ‘armed gang’, ‘terrorism’: empty words that fill the mouths of judges and journalists.
I am an anti-organization anarchist because I oppose all forms of authority and organizational constraints. I am nihilist because I live my anarchy today and not in waiting for a revolution, which – if it ever came about – would only produce more authority, technology, civilization. I live my anarchy with ease, joy, pleasure, without any spirit of martyrdom, by opposing this civilized existent with all my strength, an existent I cannot bear. I am antisocial because I am convinced that society can only exist in the differentiation between the dominant and the dominated. I do not strive for any future blissful socialist alchemy, I do not trust any social class; my revolt without revolution is individual, existential, overpowering, absolute, armed.
There’s no feeling of omnipotence in me, no disdain for the oppressed, for the ‘people’. As an eastern saying goes: ‘don’t scorn the snake because it doesn’t have horns; one day it might turn into a dragon!’. Similarly a slave can turn into a rebel, one man or one woman can become devastating fire. I scorn the powerful of the earth with all my strength, be they politicians, scientists, technocrats, leaders of all sorts, bureaucrats, army and religious chiefs.
The order I want to knock down is that of civilization, which destroys everything that makes life worth living day by day. State, democracy, social classes, ideologies, religions, police, armies, your very court, are shadows, ghosts, clogs of a all-embracing mega-machine that can be replaced. One day technology will do without us and will transform us all into atoms lost in a landscape of death and desolation.
On that 7th May 2012 I threw sand in the clogs of this mega-machine in the space of a second, and during that second I fully lived and made a difference. On that day my weapon was not an old Tokaref but the deep and ferocious hatred I feel towards techno-industrial society. I claimed the action as FAI/FRI because I fell in love with this lucid ‘madness’ that has become true poetry, at times a breeze, at others a storm, blowing halfway around the world, undaunted, improbable, against all laws, ‘commonsense’, ideologies, politics, science and civilization, against all authorities, organizations and hierarchies.
A concrete view of anarchy that doesn’t contemplate theoreticians, leaders, cadres, soldiers, heroes, martyrs, organization charts, militants or spectators. For years I had been witnessing the development of this new anarchy as a spectator. For too long I’d been looking on. If anarchy doesn’t turn into action it rejects life and becomes ideology, shit or a little more, in the best of cases a powerless outburst of frustrated men and women.
I decided to go for action after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Far too often we feel impotent in the face of such big events. Primitive men faced danger, they knew how to defend themselves. Civilized and modern men are helpless in the face of the constructions-constraints of technology. Just as sheep look at the shepherd for protection, the very shepherd that will slaughter them, so we civilized men confide in the secular priests of science, the very priests that are slowly digging our grave.
We saw Adinolfi smiling slyly and playing the victim from television screens. We saw him lecturing against ‘terrorism’ in schools. But I wonder: what is terrorism? A gunshot, a searing pain, an open wound or the incessant, continuous threat of a slow death devouring you from inside? The continuous incessant terror that one of their nuclear plants can vomit death and desolation upon us all of a sudden?
Ansaldo Nucleare and Finmeccanica bear huge responsibilities. Their projects continue to sow death everywhere. Recently the rumour has spread of probable investments in the enlargement of the nuclear plant of Kryko, Slovenia, a high seismic risk area very close to Italy. In Cernadova, Romania, several incidents have occurred since 2000, caused by Ansaldo’s stupidity during the construction of one of their plants. How many lives have been lost? How much blood shed? Technocrats of Anslado and Finmeccanica, all facile smiles and a ‘clean’ conscience: your ‘progress’ stinks of death, and the death you sow all over the world is shouting for revenge.
There are many ways to effectively oppose nuclear power: blocks of trains carrying nuclear waste, sabotage of the pylons carrying electricity produced by nuclear power. I had the idea of striking the one most responsible for this mess in Italy: Roberto Adinolfi, managing director of Ansaldo Nucleare. It didn’t take much to find out where he lived, five sessions of laying in wait were sufficient. There’s no need for a military structure, a subversive association or an armed gang in order to strike. Anyone armed with a strong will can think the unthinkable and act consequently.
I’d have liked to have done it all by myself but unfortunately I needed help with the bike. I asked Nicola and appealed to his friendship. He didn’t back down. I bought the gun for three hundred euro on the black market. There’s no need for clandestine infrastructures or huge amounts of money to arm oneself. We left by car from Turin the night before. Everything went smoothly, or kind of. Nicola was driving. I struck right where we had decided to strike. An accurate shot, I ran towards the bike and then the unexpected, the angry cry of Adinolfi, the shouted sentence that froze me: ‘Bastards… I know who sent you!’
At that very moment I had the absolute certainty that I had hit the target, and was fully aware that I had put my hands into a cesspit: money interests, international finance, politics and power, mud and cesspit. Those ‘stolen’ seconds allowed Adinolfi to read a part of the number plate, which we hadn’t covered due to inexperience. Thanks to the numbers they traced the bike and then the camera.
It won’t be the sentence of this court to turn us into bad terrorists and Adinolfi and Finmeccanica benefactors of humanity. The time has come for the great refusal, a refusal made of a plurality of resistance, each of them special. Some are possible, necessary, improbable; others are spontaneous, wild, solitary, arranged, overflowing or violent. Ours was solitary and violent. Was it worthwhile? Yes! If only for the joy we felt when we heard of the defiant smile that Olga Ikonomidou, brave sister of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, threw in the face of her jailers from a solitary confinement cell of a Greek prison.
I’m happy to be what I am, a free man even if I’m ‘temporarily’ in chains. I can’t complain much, given that the vast majority of ‘people’ have chains well placed in their brains. I’ve always tried to do what I thought right and never what was convenient. Half measures never convinced me. I’ve loved a lot. Hated a lot. And for that reason I won’t surrender to your bars, uniforms, weapons. You’ll always find me an irreducible, proud enemy. Not only. Anarchists are never alone, sometimes they are solitary but never alone. A thousand projects in our minds, a hope in our hearts that stays alive, stronger and stronger, determined and shared more and more. A concrete perspective that ‘risks’ changing the face of anarchy in the world. Small, great earthquakes that will stir a cataclysm one day. It will take time, never mind, for the time being I am enjoying the earthquake that broke out inside me from all this desire for joy and struggle.
I conclude with a quotation from Martino (Marco Camenish), unconquered warrior, prisoner for over twenty years because of his profound love of life, today locked up in an aseptic Swiss prison. I make his words my own:
‘… the courage to think things through, to break the technological police bans of the “impossible” and the “unconceivable”, the courage to thinking other and in another way act consequently. Only this can take us beyond the tepid toxic dishwater of modernity into places where nothing and nobody will lead us, to a place without security, the place of responsibility in first person, for non-submission with all its consequences. Freedom is hard and dangerous and there’s no life without death. For fear of losing our lives we often surrender to slavery and annihilation.’
Death to civilization
Death to technological society
Long live the CCF
Long live the FAI/FRI
Long live the black international!
Long live anarchy!
Alfredo Cospito
Genoa, Italy – Anarchist comrade Nicola Gai’s declaration to the court on October 30 2013 for the wounding of chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, Roberto Adinolfi
Translated by act for freedom now/B.pd-sysiphus
‘Nobody can judge me
Not even you
The truth hurts you, I know.’
C. Caselli
A few words to make a few simple points before the ‘truth’ is pronounced by the court; just in case it’s not clear, I am using the word ‘truth’ ironically as I don’t recognize any tribunal other than my own conscience. The only ones responsible for what happened in Genoa on May 7 2012 are Alfredo and myself. None of our friends or comrades knew what we were planning and then carried out. No matter how far you dig into our lives and relations to find accomplices of the ‘crime’ you won’t be able to demonstrate anything to the contrary; of course you’ll try but it’ll be a lie and an attempt to incriminate some enemy of the existent. I understand that those who have dedicated all their lives to serving authority won’t find it easy to accept the idea that two individuals, armed only with their determination, could decide to try to jam the gears of the techno-industrial system instead of contributing to running it in a disciplined way; but that’s just how it is. After years spent witnessing the systematic destruction of nature and all the aspects that make life worth living carried out by the never too highly praised technological development. Years spent following with interest, but always as a spectator, the experiences of the rebels who, even in this seemingly pacified world, continue to raise their heads and affirm the possibility of a free and wild life. Following the Fukushima disaster, when Alfredo proposed that I help him carry out an action against Roberto Adinolfi, I accepted without thinking twice. At last I could concretely demonstrate my refusal of the techno-industrial system, and put an end to participating in symbolic protests that far too often are just demonstrations of powerlessness. Nobody with even the slightest intelligence can deceive themselves that the result of a referendum or the clowning of some green economy guru can erase even just the most harmful aspects of the world we are forced to live in. Anyone who wants to can see that Finmeccanica and its subsidiary [Ansaldo Nucleare, TN] continue to produce weapons of mass destruction; they simply do this beyond the Italian borders, as if radiation respected these vile barriers.
In Romania (Cernadova, unfortunate area known mainly for countless incidents at its nuclear plant), Slovakia and the Ukraine, to mention just the most recent and direct investments, Ansaldo Nucleare continues to spread death and to contribute to the destruction of nature. As should be obvious to everybody, with another 190 nuclear power stations in Europe alone, the problem is not wondering if another Chernobyl might occur but when it will. And moreover, we mustn’t forget that these monstrosities don’t just kill when they are functioning but also do so with their nuclear waste. This is transported back and forward all over Europe with nobody knowing what to do with it. The nuclear waste from the Italian power stations, closed down decades ago, is now being transported to France in order to be made ‘safe’: they get fuel from it to supply more nuclear reactors, and also a few kilos of plutonium that can only be used to make bombs (just to remind us that there’s no difference between military and civil use as far as nuclear power is concerned), then the waste is sent back as dangerous as it was before. On this question, who knows what the Americans will do with the uranium that was secretly transferred to the USA in the summer from a nuclear waste site in Basilicata. I could talk about the damage and destruction caused by nuclear power for hours, give countless examples, go over what’s going on in Fukushima (where some are saying that no deaths were caused by the nuclear power station…) but I’m not here to seek justification. Perhaps nuclear power is the one element of this civilized world where the senseless monstrosity of the techno-industrial system can be understood by anybody, but we have to realize that we are sacrificing all protection of our individual freedom and the chance to live a worthwhile life on the altar of technological development. Now it is up to each one of us to decide whether we want to be obedient subjects or whether we want to try to live, here and now, the refusal of the existent. I have made up my mind, with joy and with no remorse.
We’ll get out of here branded as terrorists, the amusing thing is that you can say that without seeming ridiculous: it is what the law states. One thing sure is that words have lost all their meaning; if we are terrorists, what would you call those who produce weapons, tracking systems for missiles, drones, fighter-bombers, equipment to hunt people trying to cross borders, nuclear power stations, those who do deals with assassins in uniform and famous dictators, in other words, how would you define Finmeccanica? Well, your bosses certainly don’t have mush imagination, so much so that in order to dispel any doubts about the real function of this company they recently appointed former policeman Gianni De Gennaro company director: given his responsibility for the torture at Bolzaneto and the massacre at the Diaz when he was police chief at the time of the G8 of 2001, they naturally thought that he was the right man in the right place.
To get back to the reasons for this declaration of mine I’d like to make a few points about the ‘brilliant’ operation that led to our arrest. Who knows how many handshakes and pats on the back for the cunning hounds that managed to exploit our one, but fatal, mistake due to inexperience and the urgency to do something after the Fukushima disaster. In fact we didn’t notice a cctv camera placed by a zealous bar owner in order to protect his sandwiches. Unfortunately for us, we didn’t see it when we were studying the route from the spot where we left the moped and the bus stop where we changed buses and reached the city suburbs in the direction of Arenzano where my car, that we used to go to Genoa and come back, was parked. To tell the truth, the camera was not our only mistake, we also lost precious moments when we were leaving the place of the action, as the angry shout of the apprentice sorcerer of nuclear power: ‘Bastards, I know who sent you!’ froze us. It’s not up to me to jump to conclusions about the meaning of that sentence, it wasn’t the right moment for calm thinking, nor am I in the habit of building castles in the air out of someone else’s words, but personally I drew the conclusion that we had put our hands on a pile of shit. Everything else used to justify our detention is either distorted or simply false. The famous piece of phone tapping about the ‘big pistol’, where I allegedly stated I fired the shot, is totally unintelligible; there’s no point in getting experts involved to dismantle it, but as I was driving the moped it would have been impossible for me to also be holding the pistol, just as it seems logically absurd to me that I would be saying this to precisely the person who had taken part in the action with me, i.e. Alfredo.
As for the printer that was seized from my parents’ house, which the forensic stated was the one used to print the leaflet, it’s not even worth talking about. I bought the computer and printer and we destroyed them both after using them (it should be noted that after the court of review reconfirmed our arrest, even the scientists of the RIS realized that the seized printer was not the one used for the leaflet). As far as the theft of the moped is concerned, which we are accused of along with non-existent ‘unknown persons’, things are not as complicated as your efforts to recreate them. We went around the city trying to solve the problem as we had no experience of this kind of thing. As we know, good luck favours the brave, and in the pleasant locality of Bolzaneto we bumped into a scooter with the keys still in the ignition; we took them and decided to go back a few days later with a helmet. The bike was still in the same place, I just got on it, started the engine and drove it to the vicinity of the Staglieno cemetery, where it remained parked until fifteen days before the action, when I moved it near to Mr Adinolfi’s house. I apologize to the owner for removing the helmets and other objects that were under the seat and for throwing away the back trunk, these objects would have been obstacles to the action and certainly it wouldn’t have been a good idea to have tried to get them back. Another element that the investigators have embellished and, I’m afraid, will try to use in their role as good inquisitors in the future, is some phone tapping by the C.S.L. in Naples, where some comrades allegedly comment on the leaflet they allegedly got via e-mail as a world first. I don’t know what they are talking about, I won’t go into how difficult it is to understand the dialogue, to say the least, nor is there any point in dwelling on the obvious consonance between ‘Valentino’ and ‘volantino’ [‘leaflet’ in Italian], but I do know for sure that the communiqué was only sent via ordinary mail (we posted the letters during the change of buses on our way back, in a post box on the seafront near the ferry terminal), so it is impossible for the comrades to have received it via e-mail.
I know for sure that you will use our case to make an example, that your revenge will be draconian, that you will do anything to keep us isolated (suffice it to say that our letters have been subjected to censorship for more than a year), but I want to give you some bad news: your efforts will be in vain. For at least 150 years judges, even more ferocious than yourselves, have been trying to erase the idea of the possibility of a life free from authority, but with poor results. I can calmly assure you that your repressive actions, no matter how wide and indiscriminate, won’t be able to disarticulate or eradicate anything.
If you think that, thanks to us, you will be able to trace other anarchists who have decided to put the chaotic, spontaneous and informal possibilities of the FAI to the test, you are absolutely mistaken and you will draw a blank, like always; neither Alfredo or myself know anyone who has made this choice. You are chasing a ghost that you can’t lock up in the petty procedures of your legal codes. That is because it manifests itself in the instant in which the destructive tensions of those who animate it come together in order to act, in the instant when free women and men decide to put anarchy concretely to the test. Now that the experience of the Olga nucleus is concluded I can only assure you that I have found new reasons to feed my hatred and motives to desire the destruction of the existent composed of authority, exploitation and the devastation of nature.
Love and complicity to the sisters and brothers who make the mad dream of the FAI/FRI real with their actions all over the world.
Love and complicity to the comrades who, anonymously or not, continue to attack in the name of the possibility of a life free from authority.
Love and freedom to all anarchist prisoners.
Long live the black international of the rebels against the deadly order of civilization.
Long live anarchy!
Nicola Gai
Ferrara, September 2013
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Genova[Italia]: Opuscolo dei compagni genovesi
Di seguito il testo estrartto dall’opuscolo redatto e distribuito da alcuni compagni genovesi in occasione del processo ad Alfredo e Nicola. In fondo alla pagina c’è il link per scaricarlo in versione cartacea:
SOLIDARIETA’ per ALFREDO e NICOLA
…….la rassegnazione è morte…….la rivolta è vita…….
Anarchia, parola di origine greca che vuol dire “ASSENZA di GOVERNO e/o ASSENZA di comando” .
Non siamo Anarchici/che per mancanza di un governo, ma perché non ne vorremmo mai uno che sia di destra o di sinistra; il governo implica sottomissione, delega, accentramento di potere.
Da queste poche righe si capisce che nessun anarchico/a sarà mai amico di chi fa le leggi o di chi le fa rispettare. Quindi, è altrettanto ovvio che gli anarchici e le anarchiche saranno sempre un nemico del potere, dei borghesi e dei loro servi. Perciò è inutile pensare che chi è contro lo strapotere dei padroni possa aver vita facile. Infatti nessuno dei compagni o compagne arrestati, imputati o indagati pensa di esser vittima di qualche sopruso perché sennò saremmo noi gli stupidi!
Ogni giorno questo pianeta e la stragrande maggioranza di persone che ci vive, sono vittime di ingiustizie, milioni di persone muoiono di fame, di sete o vengono uccise da guerre inutili create per ottenere dei profitti che gli stati e le industrie che producono morte conoscono bene.
Noi semplicemente rileviamo e mettiamo a fuoco le cause responsabili di questi fatti e ci auspichiamo che tutti questi esseri viventi focalizzino l’origine del loro problema.
Abbattere il potere e non modificarlo è la soluzione più ovvia !
Semplicemente diciamo ciò che ci sentiamo dentro, siccome NOI non abbiamo padroni a cui dobbiamo rispondere. I magistrati ci infliggono condanne ma noi saremo sempre LIBERI dentro al nostro cuore e finché ci saranno i compagni fuori a proteggere dagli aguzzini chi si ritrova nelle loro mani, l’Anarchia avrà modo di esistere, d’altronde non saranno queste ridicole divise che ci sottometteranno visto che sono più di 100 anni che sopportiamo tutto questo e rispondiamo COLPO su COLPO.
Oggi ci ritroviamo a portar Solidarietà ai compagni che sono stati incarcerati e inquisiti per l’attentato ad Adinolfi, l’amm. delegato di Finmeccanica esattamente una di quelle aziende che fanno di guerre e nucleare il loro punto di forza.
E’ inutile dire che siamo con LORO, contro la repressione che li ha colpiti.
Perché parliamo di Solidarietà Attiva e quindi Diretta ?
Perché in passato molte sono state le critiche verso i compagni o le compagne che usavano strumenti e mezzi dichiarati non affini a una lotta anarchica. Come se qualcuno avesse il diritto di dire che una pietra contro uno sbirro è accettabile, ma un proiettile è da condannare.
Ebbene, visto che queste critiche persistono, ahimè, e non sono state di poco conto quelle dopo l’attentato ad Adinolfi, continuando di questo passo un domani non andrà bene neanche tirare una pietra.
Già di nemici ne abbiamo tanti, non vorremmo averne anche tra le nostre fila.
Siamo con tutti i/le compagni/e incarcerati/e senza distinzione di reato, visto che oggi la tendenza è quella di verificare il motivo per cui uno viene imprigionato.
Queste distinzioni non tanto tempo fa, le lasciavamo fare a chi con noi ha poco a che spartire; oggi purtroppo non è così e lo dimostra l’isolamento che alcuni/e compagni/e stanno vivendo sulla loro pelle.
Per questo motivo, ora più che mai, è necessario esprimere una solidarietà attiva, che sia vicina ai nostri compagni e compagne nel momento del bisogno, e che sia pronta a dare risposte inequivocabili nel momento della repressione.
La situazione dei compagni “dentro” non è buona, come ovvio che sia: subiscono trasferimenti, non permettono alle proprie compagne di fare i colloqui con loro e per questo motivo, Sergio, un altro compagno che è stato arrestato con l’accusa di far parte della FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale), ha portato avanti uno sciopero della fame per un mese e mezzo, tra l’altro senza ottenere i colloqui.
Notizia dell’ultima ora: quella aguzzina del p.m. che si occupa del procedimento shadow, in cui sono inquisiti 6 compagni (di cui 2 in carcere), nella sua requisitoria ha chiesto la bellezza tra i 4 e i 10 anni di carcere. Da non dimenticare che l’intera operazione è coordinata dai ROS, con cui la Comodi va a braccetto e dei quali avvalla ogni teoria. ROS, i porci che in passato, come nelle migliori democrazie, hanno contribuito a scrivere tra le pagine più oscure, degne di uomini in divisa. Oggi possiamo dire che l’intero impianto accusatorio è crollato. A parte Sergio che è stato condannato a 3 e 3 mesi per furto d’auto gli altri sono stati tutti assolti in primo grado. I 2 Compagni comunque rimangono in carcere per altri 2 procedimenti in corso.
Nessuno si aspetta un trattamento migliore, non chiediamo a politici o scribacchini di intervenire.
Noi ci rivolgiamo a chi sente necessario stare vicino ai nostri fratelli e sorelle che passano anni della loro vita dentro a delle gabbie schifose. Non commettiamo sbagli già avvenuti in passato, facendo noi delle differenziazioni tra chi sceglie un tipo di lotta rispetto un altra.
Non caschiamo nel gioco voluto fortemente dalla magistratura e da parte di tutti quelli che non accettano diverse modalità di lotta.
Un Ribelle, un Anarchico non deve commettere certi sbagli.
Solidarietà e Complicità con tutti gli Anarchici e le Anarchiche arrestate.
Per l’Anarchia !
Anarchix
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