Cosa Nostra boss cuts and swallows guardian finger

A cell in Metz prison -

The story dates back to this summer.

Incarcerated in an Italian prison, a boss of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, severed with his teeth the little finger of a prison guard before swallowing it, reports the Rome newspaper

Tuesday.

For nine years, Giuseppe Fanara, 60, had been serving a life sentence in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, under the harsh prison regime provided for the mafia in article "41 bis" of the regulations of the Italian prison administration.

"I'll slit your throat like pigs"

According to information from

, the detainee attacked last June seven police officers from the prison who came to check his cell.

During a clinch, on the very floor of his cell, he punched an officer in the face and then bit the little finger of his right hand.

The finger was not found, which led a Rome prosecutor to conclude that the thug had eaten it, adds the newspaper.

Following this act, the prisoner allegedly threw himself on the agent's other six colleagues using a broomstick as a weapon.

"I will slit your throat like pigs," the man allegedly yelled after being transferred to the high security prison of Sassari in Sardinia.

Sentenced to life in 2009

Giuseppe Fanara was sentenced to life imprisonment during a trial in 2009, the result of a strike against the Mafia in 2006 in the region of Agrigento, Sicily.

The trial, which led to three life sentences and an 18-year prison sentence, involved the murder of two brothers who had rebelled against Cosa Nostra's demands, as well as the murder of three men following conflicts between mafia clans at the end of the 90s.

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