Corsican & French mob

[Villain]

Thanks again, Motorfab.

Regarding the article... the cigarette biz was somehow the reason and start of the war that lasted until 72?

[motorfab]

Thanks again, Motorfab.

Regarding the article... the cigarette biz was somehow the reason and start of the war that lasted until 72?

Basically yes. It continued after 1955 because guys kept avenging their deaths and so on. Like Neri said (and it's a recurring thing in that kind of beef) guys don't even know why they keep shooting each other . Salvati's murder is clearly linked to the original cigarette stuff.

A precision in relation to the article and to the beginning of the war: the sources are contradictory as to who started to sell the cigarettes first. Some historians think it's Paolini and other Venturi (which I think). Who knows ...

[motorfab]

And it is clearly the gang's war which made the most victims with the one of Salicetti and that of the Zemour brothers (which will be the subject of chapter 5).

[Villain]

Thanks

[aleksandrored]

Thanks man, another great part of article.

[motorfab]

A Propriano glacier targeted again by an explosive charge
https://www.corsematin.com/articles/un- ... ive-111755

[Villain]

A Propriano glacier targeted again by an explosive charge
https://www.corsematin.com/articles/un- ... ive-111755

Thanks, Btw, do you think its the local mob or maybe some1 else? Lots of politicians involved in these types of rackets "lately"...

Less than a month ago, across my "everyday" pub theres a small grocery store, and it was bought by one young pair. The first week they had food inspectors coming every day and one night, the joint got bombed and completely burned down. I think i know who did it but all i can do is feel sorry for the couple....

[motorfab]

A Propriano glacier targeted again by an explosive charge
https://www.corsematin.com/articles/un- ... ive-111755

Thanks, Btw, do you think its the local mob or maybe some1 else? Lots of politicians involved in these types of rackets "lately"...

Less than a month ago, across my "everyday" pub theres a small grocery store, and it was bought by one young pair. The first week they had food inspectors coming every day and one night, the joint got bombed and completely burned down. I think i know who did it but all i can do is feel sorry for the couple....

A few years ago I could have told you that it could have been the Independantists, but the FLNC (Front de Liberation National Corse) is supposed to have surrendered and rather attacked "French" institutions (a fire in a "Frenchman's" vacation home or more serious the assassination of a prefect in 1998). Now I believe they are doing actions like attacking mosques or things unrelated to their root cause. The real Independentists are right now in the field of politics.

There on the other hand as it is a business and that in addition it was targeted several times in the year, it smells mob for me. I think it's the owner who refuses to be extorted

I use " ", because whether they like it or not they're French ...

[motorfab]

The article is not recent since it dates from 2015, but here is the story of André Bousquet, a doctor who became a chemist in heroin and who worked among others with the Italian mafioso Gerlando Alberti of the Porta Nuova Madamento

https://www.centrepresseaveyron.fr/2015 ... KULZR0y8SE

[motorfab]

Bastia: Richard Guazzelli on appeal for "true fake passport case"

https://www.corsenetinfos.corsica/Basti ... ?preview=1

[motorfab]

Busy week for Corsican organized crime

A Corsican underworld figure hopes to benefit from procedural error in criminal case
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/ ... _3224.html

The original case: Retiree killed "by mistake" in Corsica: Guy Orsoni and three other suspects indicted
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/ ... 222706.php

[aleksandrored]

Thanks fella

[aleksandrored]

Thanks fella, these days I saw French Connection and remembered these incredible articles.

[motorfab]

Prelude to chapter 4: Robert Blémant, the Guerini's Waterloo.

Robert Blémant was a Commissioner of the ST (Surveillance of the Territory), the equivalent in the 1930s-40s of the DST, the French counter-espionage service.


Robert Blémant

He began his career in 1938 in charge of flushing out German spies and was assigned in 1939 to Marseille where he began to build a network of informants. Of him his superior will say: "He is repugnant to procedures and half-measures revolt him. Blémant is direct, ardent, ruthless ”. So ruthless that his network of informants is made up mainly by mobsters. Indeed not only does he dress like them, but Blémant is also a follower of muscular interrogation and if need be (and this will be the case a little too often in the opinion of his superiors) to get rid of suspects. Among his men we find the legendary Joseph Renucci, Mathieu Zampa, Emile Buisson, Abel Danos (who will change sides and will work later for the Gestapo around 1941) or Barthélémy Guerini. The Commissioner's method is simple: track down the enemy, make him speak with his fists (or more…) to finally take him for a sea trip from which he will not return of course.


Emile Buisson & Abel Danos

As its operations are expensive, Blémant will organize the first armed-robbery of the occupation: on February 24, 1941, Buisson, Danos, Joseph Rocca-Serra and perhaps Jean-Bapstiste Chave (who like Danos will change side just after that) holds up the collector of a bank in Paris. In the end: 1 death, one seriously injured. But whatever for Blémant, the team brought back the equivalent of a million dollars and the end justifies the means.

In 1942, Marseille, which was in the “free zone”, was invaded by the Germans and Blémant left for Algiers to continue his missions. Tired of the sluggishness of the Police and more and more fascinated by the Underworld, he resigned in 1949 to devote himself to crime.

The years pass, and Blémant settles in Paris where he frequents the band of the "Trois Canards"* which includes Gaetan "Tany" Zampa, the son of Mathieu Zampa, the associate of Blémant during the war. In 1959 he throws himself in the business of Cercle de Jeux, sort of private Casinos which are managed in majority by Corsicans, a gift from the French government to Corsican mobsters for service during the war ... He therefore becomes a shareholder of the “Grand Cercle” in the company of Jean-Baptiste Andréani, Antoine Peretti & Marcel Francisci, important bosses of the Corsican underworld. But in 1962 things deteriorated and Andréani was the target of an attack from which he escaped after having dismissed his ex-shareholders. Antoine Guerini who hates Blémant and who finds that he takes too much importance in the underworld with the young people of the "Trois Canards" tells Andréani that it is surely him behind the attempted murder and a vote is organized to decide the fate of the commissioner.


Marcel Francisci

On May 15, 1965, against the advice of Bartélémy Guerini who suspected what would happen, Blémant was assassinated while he was in the car with his wife. It is the beginning of the end of the Guerini empire.

In 1966, the gunman was shot dead. His driver during the murder Antoine Mondoloni, son of Barthélémy conceived out of marriage, was later murdered in 1969 in a hospital while he was in a coma following a road accident.


Antoine Mondoloni

On June 15, 1967, Antoine Guerini was shot dead in a gas station with 11 bullets in the chest. The murder would have been ordered by Zampa and committed by his sidekick Jacques "Jacky Le Mat" Imbert.


Antoine Guerini crime scene

The day after the funeral, 2 thieves break into Antoine's house and unfortunately have no idea who they are stealing from. One of the thieves, a Spaniard, manages to escape to Spain in time, but the other, Claude Mandroyan, has much less luck. He is taken on a "walk" by Barthélémy Guerini and his men and is violently tortured before being thrown off a cliff. Unfortunately for Guerini, the body is found sevaral days later. Barthélémy, François and Pascal Guérini are arrested. François died in prison shortly afterwards and Mémé was sentenced to twenty years in prison, although he had never ceased to proclaim his innocence, and Pascal at fifteen. Mémé died of rectal cancer in 1982, in a clinic in Montpellier.


François & Pascal Guerini

It is the end of the reign of Guerini on Marseilles and the beginning of the reign (very agitated) of Gaetan Zampa.

** "Les Trois Canard" was a bar frequented by the new generation of the French underworld including Geatan Zampa, Jacques Imbert or Francis Vanverberghe (who will be the protagonists of Chapter 4) as well as alumni such as the Corsican racketeer François Marcantoni, and whose owner was François Scaglia. Scaglia is famous for being one of the protagonists in the 1962 French Connection affair that inspired the film of the same name. Usually whoever had beef with someone who frequented that bar and walked in was going to be in serious trouble.

[motorfab]

June 23 for the murder of Antoine, sorry about that.