The case of the anarchist Alfredo Cospito arrives at the Constitutional Court.

The Consulta has set for April 18 the public hearing in which the order with which the Assize Court of Appeal of Turin has suspended the trial of the anarchist will be treated.

The "incidental judgment" that will have to be examined by the Constitutional Court with respect to the case of Alfredo Cospito came to the attention of the judges after the transmission of the order of the Assize Court of Appeal of Turin. The crux concerns the granting or not of extenuating circumstances with respect to the attack in front of the Carabinieri School of Fossano.

The question had been raised by the defenses regarding the crime of political massacre for which the Prosecutor had requested life imprisonment. In short, Cospito must answer for "specific repeated recidivism", despite the 'slight entity' of the fact. The law, however, prevents the so-called "balancing" and so life imprisonment should be imposed. The Consulta, therefore, will have to establish whether or not in the case of political massacre the prohibition of balancing must operate.

Meanwhile, the coroner, consultant of part of the defense of the anarchist who is in the prison medicine department of the San Paolo hospital in Milan, said that Cospito "has lost further weight and, from this point of view, the situation is becoming serious".