Tag: Italian mafia

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Mafia boss on life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison's guard finger

  

  A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said. Giuseppe Fanara, 60, who is serving a life sentence at Rome's Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to inspect his cell, the daily Il Messagero reported.

• Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 07:37 UTC

  Pope calls on the mafia to change or 'end up in hell, at annual ceremony for the mafiosi victims

  

  Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to change or else “end up in hell”. The mafia continues to plague much of southern Italy: just on Monday, a four-year-old boy was shot dead, along with his mother and her boyfriend, near the southern city of Taranto in a suspected mob hit.