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by motorfab
Sun May 19, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé
Replies: 209
Views: 167611

Re: Motorfab's Blog: Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

New article on the blog dedicated to Dominique Albertini and his half-brother Joseph Césari. The two brothers were considered the main heroin chemists of the "French Connection" and were linked to numerous mafiosi around the world. The article is in its last part devoted to the "disci...
by motorfab
Sun May 19, 2024 5:48 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Replies: 2275
Views: 5502332

Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era

^^^^ Crime organisé: la tête de l'influent caïd Jean-Philippe Célestin mise à prix par ses ennemis https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/05/17/celestin Journalist can be so funny. " They sell a thousand quarters of a gram..." Lol Just say they move 250 grams... Hahaha, no it's just the w...
by motorfab
Sat May 18, 2024 1:07 pm
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Who was the longest-serving Capo?
Replies: 17
Views: 533

Re: Who was the longest-serving Capo?

Vic Cotroni in Montreal, capo circa 1960 until his death in 1984. Even if for around ten years he took a back seat, that's almost 24 years at the head of a decina Didn't Massino testify that Sciascia was captain of that decina by 1981? I recall him saying Sciascia was among the captains who voted t...
by motorfab
Sat May 18, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Who was the longest-serving Capo?
Replies: 17
Views: 533

Re: Who was the longest-serving Capo?

Vic Cotroni in Montreal, capo circa 1960 until his death in 1984. Even if for around ten years he took a back seat, that's almost 24 years at the head of a decina
by motorfab
Tue May 14, 2024 7:47 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)
Replies: 9
Views: 313

Re: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)

You're welcome, glad you like the articles/interview or/and find it useful guys. Very cool stuff here. Regarding Mondoloni *theoretically* being made. As we know, the Corsicans are ethnically an Italian people and thus it is certainly possible that they would not be viewed the same by mafiosi as eth...
by motorfab
Sat May 11, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)
Replies: 9
Views: 313

Re: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)

Some thoughts on the establishment of Cosa Nostra in Marseille: -I talk about it relatively often, but during these investigations in Marseille in 1986, Judge Falcone told to his French counterpart Michel Debacq that he considered Paul Mondoloni as the or at least one of the representatives of Cosa ...
by motorfab
Sat May 11, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)
Replies: 9
Views: 313

Articles dedicated to the French side of the Pizza Connection + Interview with Judge Giovanni Falcone (1988-1989)

Between 1988 and 1989, the magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur" published several articles on the French side of the "Pizza Connection". At the time the trial for the assassination of Judge Pierre Michel was opening, and that on the "French Sicilian Connection" had just end...
by motorfab
Fri May 10, 2024 5:35 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Guys who "seemed" made but weren't
Replies: 29
Views: 1357

Re: Guys who "seemed" made but weren't

Cheech wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 3:47 am
OcSleeper wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 6:30 pm He was proposed twice but turned it down both times IIRC. He was connected to the Ndrangheta and his brother Vincenzo Melia was a big name up in Canada and back in Calabria.
You got it!
According to Cecil Kirby, Nick Melia was a member of the 'ndrangheta in Connecticut
by motorfab
Thu May 09, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era
Replies: 2275
Views: 5502332

Re: Montreal Mafia status - Post Rizzuto Era

French is the official language in Quebec ... Do like me with English or Italian articles, translate them with Google or your internet browser, it take approximatively 10 seconds :)

But I think Le Journal de Montréal got articles in English most of the time
by motorfab
Mon May 06, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Blog - 'A Sicilan Message'
Replies: 9
Views: 458

Re: Blog - 'A Sicilan Message'

Looks great, I will follow your work assiduously !
by motorfab
Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Catalano thread
Replies: 11
Views: 1516

Re: Catalano thread

I was recently doing some research on the "First Mafia War", and it seems that Toto Catalano was arrested a first time in New Jersey where he was a "mechanic" but managed to escape from the interpol agents, and a second one in Weil Otterbach, Germany in 1966. No idea what happene...
by motorfab
Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:24 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: How a Sicilian mobster helped organize crime in Brazil
Replies: 2
Views: 915

Re: How a Sicilian mobster helped organize crime in Brazil

-Antonino Salamone was married to Salvatore 'l'Ingegnere" Greco's sister, so he wasn't the mastermind behind the Ciaculli Massacre (Michele Cavataio, Pietro Torretta and few others were) -Salamone was more than an accountant, he was the representant of the San Giuseppe Jato mandamento in the Cu...
by motorfab
Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:30 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: Ndrangheta in NY
Replies: 54
Views: 3959

Re: Ndrangheta in NY

calabrianwatch wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:14 am It appears I can't attach pdf - see here for download on rocca di Neto file https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20240424o5qvrKE9
Nice, thanks !
by motorfab
Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: The Tunis Family
Replies: 59
Views: 3402

Re: The Tunis Family

Ok thanks Joel. I guess it's still a possibility that they were also wrong about his place of birth then
by motorfab
Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: MAFIA FORUM
Topic: The Tunis Family
Replies: 59
Views: 3402

Re: The Tunis Family

Very late response, but it seems that according to the FBN Sam Maugeri was born December 16, 1897 in Catania and not September 13, 1892 in San Giorgio Morgeto. Was the FBN wrong?