Vending machines in different Italian cities this weekend packs of tobacco 10 cents after an attack by computer hackers in protest against anarchist Alfredo Cospito, who went on a hunger strike for being imprisoned in harsh solitary confinement.

The modified devices have been seen in cities across the country such as Naples (south), Pescara (center), Genoa (north) and on the island of Sardinia, where owners were forced to stop selling tobaccoThis was reported by the local press on Sunday.

On the screens of cars appeared a sign with the phrase “Alfredo Cospito, from 41 bis”, solitary confinement designed for the most violent gangsters and criminals in Italy.

Cospito, who has been on a hunger strike since last year, filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights a few weeks ago following the Italian Supreme Court’s ruling. deny their requests for leniency.

In the appeal, the defendant states that his rights were violated when he was convicted “for a crime that, at the time he committed it is not a crime under Italian law.”

Cospito was sent to prison for shot in the leg of a businessman in 2012 and for placing two packages of bombs at a school for Carabinieri officers, the explosion of which did not cause any injuries.