Italian prisoner shoots at rivals with gun ‘smuggled in by drone’

Inmate with mafia links fired at fellow prisoners through cell bars, says prison union

An Italian prisoner has shot at fellow inmates through the bars of their cell with a weapon believed to have been smuggled in by drone.

The 28-year-old man, who has links to the Neapolitan mafia, fired three shots on Sunday at prisoners he had argued with, but without injuring them, said Donato Capece, the head of the Sappe prison union.