Man on trial for 'cutting of love rival's penis and flushing it down toilet'

London, Mar 9 (ANI): A jilted boyfriend is to go on trial in France after he sliced off his love rival's penis and flushed it down a toilet.

Blaise Fragione, 38, has confessed to knocking out his cheating girlfriend's lover then cutting off 'two thirds' of his manhood with a razor blade.

He then flushed the severed organ down a toilet at his home in Mediterranean city of Marseille.

The victim - named only as F - claims Fragione abducted him by force after learning his girlfriend and mother of their two children was having the affair.

He then knocked him unconscious with a blow to the head and tied him to a chair before carrying out the horrific attack in October 2008, it was reported.

The victim's lawyer Jorge Mendes Constante said his client's 'life has been completely destroyed'.

"He has suffered a total redefinition of his body image that has had a dramatic effect on his social and sexual life," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

Medical experts estimated he has lost around 70 per cent of his penis, leaving it only 3cm long when flaccid, and he was now awaiting surgical reconstruction, Constante added.

Fragione's lawyer Marc Ceccadi denied the savage attack had been planned in advance.

"The sudden revelation of this infidelity made him lose control in the anguish of being abandoned by his girlfriend.

"He is well aware that he caused a significant trauma. He has now reunited with his original girlfriend and they plan to marry," he said.

The dockyard worker is due in court in the city of Aix-en-Provence on Thursday where he faces 15 years in prison if convicted of "aggravated assault accompanied by mutilation". (ANI)

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