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Mireille Bouquet from the anime series Noir (2001) is a surviving member of a family once involved with the Corsican mafia.

In the film American Gangster, the Corsican mafia attempt to murder Frank Lucas after he puts them out of business through his monopoly on the heroin trade.

The French television series Mafiosa references a Corsican gang led by a woman.

The French film A Prophet (2009) shows the gradual rise of a young prisoner, cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison.

The 'Petit Bar' gang (also called the 'Tiny Bar) and the Corsican mob of Marseille are also active. Known groups in the Corsican mafia are the Venzolasca gang (nickname in reference to the village of Venzolasca, in northern Corsica, which are from key members of the gang), considered the Brise de Mer successors. Today, the Corsican mafia consists of multiple families, allies, and rivals. However, the evolution of the Corsican Mafia has continued in several illegal activities (hold-ups, racketeering, casinos, illegal slot machines, various drug dealing and prostitution).įrom the 1980s to the end of the 2000s, violent internal conflicts troubled the Corsican mafia, resulting in around 102 murders on the island of Corsica. The end of the French Connection caused the disbandment of Corsican clans involved in the heroin trade. During the same era, they organized the French Connection, a massive heroin trafficking operation based in Marseille and selling to the American Mafia. The Guerini brothers smuggled opiates from French Indochina using the Messageries Maritimes, a French merchant shipping company.įrom the 1960s to the early 1970s the major Corsican organized crime groups were collectively termed Unione Corse by American law enforcement.

In the coming Cold War, both the center-left French government and the US fought against Soviet influence in Marseille while covertly employing illegal means to further that goal: the Guerini gang was employed to disrupt union and electoral gatherings, back strikebreakers and support US-funded anti-Soviet labor unions.įrom the 1950s to the 1960s, the Guerini brother were exempt from prosecution in Marseille. In 1947, Marseille was the main trading port of the French colonial empire and it had a Stalinist mayor, Jean Christofol, who was backed by the labour unions for longshoremen, transportation workers, and dockworkers. Also during World War II, the Corsican gang led by the Guerini brothers (Antoine and Barthélémy, nicknamed 'Mémé') sided with the anti-communist Gaullist faction within the French Resistance.

The pre-war crime bosses of Marseille, Paul Carbone and François Spirito, collaborated closely with the Milice in Vichy France and the Nazi Gestapo in Occupied France. ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The most important groups of the Corsican mafia include the Unione Corse and the Brise de Mer gang. The Corsican mafia is an influential organized crime structure, operating in France, Russia, and many African and Latin American countries. The Corsican mafia is a set of criminal groups originating from Corsica which are partially independent of but also closely tied to and participating heavily in both the French underworld and Italian Mafia. Racketeering, weapons trafficking, gambling, drug trafficking, assault, theft, loan sharking, fraud, bankruptcy, blackmailing, bribery, extortion, car bombing, smuggling, infiltration of politics, kidnapping, money laundering, murder, corruption, tax evasion ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įrance, several countries in Latin America and North Africa ( May 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.

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