by motorfab » Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:37 am
B. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:33 am
- Looking through the FBN book, the Maugeri brothers Corrado and Giovanni were born in Tunisia. Their family appears to come from Catania and Eastern Sicily, possibly a sign that a Catanesi element in Tunis already existed that the Calderones' uncle Saitta joined up with.
- A Francesco/Francois Licari is listed in the FBN as a figure living in Milan who was born in Tunis in 1915. I'm not sure what his exact Italian/Sicilian heritage is, but he was known as "il Tunisino" (i.e. the Tunisian) and was a drug trafficker associated with fellow Tunis-born Giovanni Maugeri of NYC. Maugeri was also associated with the Sorci brothers, who as Calderone said had their own ties to Tunis.
I was doing some research on Giovanni Maugeri, I found a few other links with Tunis.
-I'm just starting with an aside on François Licari who was connected to Maugeri in Milan. Licari was a Frenchman born in Tunis, it is very likely that he used the name Francesco (Italian version of François) when he fled to Italy. Note, it's not very smart to just change your first name when you're wanted. Anyway, he was likely not Italian, except for his origins
Very little information about him but according to the FBN, he fled to Italy because he was wanted for his collaboration with the Germans during the war (in short, he was probably a member of the Gestapo like many other French mobsters). In this regard, appears in his list of associates Antoine D'Agostino, fugitive for the same reason, but who fled to Montreal. Coincidentally, D'Agostino is of Italian origin (Naples) and was born in Algeria, another French colony which is located next to Tunisia.
-Regarding Maugeri, he was deported from the USA in 1957 and settled in Milan. He was very active in drug trafficking between Milan & Marseille and has the same address book as Licari (Dominique Albertini, Sorci, Cuomo, Bellanca and all the clique).
Where it becomes interesting for Tunis (sorry for the long intro without much relation to the initial subject), is that in Milan he was in business with other Sicilian-Tunisians. 3 names stand out: Benito Gallo, Salvatore "il Tunisino" Gambino & Antonio "Nenè il Tunisino" Bruno. Corrado Maugeri (born in Bizerte, Tunisia), Giovanni/John/Jean's brother was also part of the group
The gang was obviously involved in drugs and Bruno, who was officially a butcher, distributed bags of cocaine with sausages.
Gambino & Gallo were killed in 1974 and Maugeri was found dead in a bag in a canal in a Milan neighborhood in 1975.
The names Bruno, Gambino & Gallo are quite common, so it's not easy to find possible connections with other mafiosi from Tunis, but I found it interesting to find all these guys from Tunisia in Milan.
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- Looking through the FBN book, the Maugeri brothers Corrado and Giovanni were born in Tunisia. Their family appears to come from Catania and Eastern Sicily, possibly a sign that a Catanesi element in Tunis already existed that the Calderones' uncle Saitta joined up with.
- A Francesco/Francois Licari is listed in the FBN as a figure living in Milan who was born in Tunis in 1915. I'm not sure what his exact Italian/Sicilian heritage is, but he was known as "il Tunisino" (i.e. the Tunisian) and was a drug trafficker associated with fellow Tunis-born Giovanni Maugeri of NYC. Maugeri was also associated with the Sorci brothers, who as Calderone said had their own ties to Tunis.
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I was doing some research on Giovanni Maugeri, I found a few other links with Tunis.
-I'm just starting with an aside on François Licari who was connected to Maugeri in Milan. Licari was a Frenchman born in Tunis, it is very likely that he used the name Francesco (Italian version of François) when he fled to Italy. Note, it's not very smart to just change your first name when you're wanted. Anyway, he was likely not Italian, except for his origins
Very little information about him but according to the FBN, he fled to Italy because he was wanted for his collaboration with the Germans during the war (in short, he was probably a member of the Gestapo like many other French mobsters). In this regard, appears in his list of associates Antoine D'Agostino, fugitive for the same reason, but who fled to Montreal. Coincidentally, D'Agostino is of Italian origin (Naples) and was born in Algeria, another French colony which is located next to Tunisia.
-Regarding Maugeri, he was deported from the USA in 1957 and settled in Milan. He was very active in drug trafficking between Milan & Marseille and has the same address book as Licari (Dominique Albertini, Sorci, Cuomo, Bellanca and all the clique).
Where it becomes interesting for Tunis (sorry for the long intro without much relation to the initial subject), is that in Milan he was in business with other Sicilian-Tunisians. 3 names stand out: Benito Gallo, Salvatore "il Tunisino" Gambino & Antonio "Nenè il Tunisino" Bruno. Corrado Maugeri (born in Bizerte, Tunisia), Giovanni/John/Jean's brother was also part of the group
The gang was obviously involved in drugs and Bruno, who was officially a butcher, distributed bags of cocaine with sausages.
Gambino & Gallo were killed in 1974 and Maugeri was found dead in a bag in a canal in a Milan neighborhood in 1975.
The names Bruno, Gambino & Gallo are quite common, so it's not easy to find possible connections with other mafiosi from Tunis, but I found it interesting to find all these guys from Tunisia in Milan.