Italian mobster 'killed rival by feeding him ALIVE to the pigs'

A mobster was killed by being fed alive to pigs by rival gangsters, Italian police said yesterday. Francesco Raccosta was beaten with iron bars before being thrown screaming into a sty where he was swiftly eaten by the hungry animals. His horrifying death was the latest bloody instalment in a 60-year feud between warring members of an Italian crime syndicate, detectives say. The murder was carried out by Simone Pepe, a member of the ’Ndrangheta crime family which holds a fierce grip on the southern Italian region of Calabria.

Yesterday police released tapes of intercepted phone calls in which Pepe is heard saying of Raccosta: ‘It was so satisfying hearing him scream... mamma mia, he could scream. ‘I didn’t see a fucking thing left. People say sometimes they [pigs] leave something... in the end there was nothing left... those pigs could certainly eat.’ The killing has echoes of the film Snatch, made in 2000 by British director Guy Ritchie, in which a gang lord called Brick Top is seen describing how 16 pigs can get through a body weighing 200lb in only eight minutes, hence the expression ‘greedy as a pig’. Police said that Raccosta had begged Pepe for his life but he was ignored.

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