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The Unione Corse is a term designating the Corsican organized crime as a whole during the period 1930s–1970s, in the context of the French Connection, an international heroin trade network operated at that time between Turkey, Southern France, and the United States.
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.In World War II, the Corsican mafia led by the Guerini brothers [] (Antoine and Barthélémy, nicknamed "Mémé") sided with the anti-communist SFIO faction within the French Resistance.
The gang de la Brise de Mer was one of the most powerful Corsican criminal organizations.Based in Northern Corsica, the gang controls various activities (racketeering, slots machines traffic, laundering, night clubs, gambling clubs, casinos, etc.) in Corsica, but also in the South of France, in Paris, in Italy, in Occidental African countries (Gabon, Mali, Cameroon, etc.), and in Latin ...
One of Santoni's major goals while leading Armata Corsa was the end of Corsican organized crime and the mafia, which Santoni often linked to the guerrilla groups which opposed him. his stance on the mafia got him into a feud with the Brise de Mer, the largest mafia organization in Corsica at the time. Santoni's war with rival nationalist ...
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The most prominent criminal organization within Le Milieu is the Corsican mafia (milieu corse). Although the mafia has encompassed many criminal groups from the 1960s to the 1980s, modern (1990s–present) criminal activity is managed by the Marseille-based Unione Corse and Northern Corsica–based Gang de la Brise de Mer (i
An investigation into Sikh gang violence spanning six Northern California counties has resulted in 17 arrests. The gangs allegedly carried out 11 shootings. 17 arrested in connection with 11 gang ...
The Petit Bar Gang is an organized crime group from Corsica. It gets its name from the "Petit Bar," an establishment in Ajaccio (on the cours Napoléon), owned by Ange-Marie Michelosi, a lieutenant of Jean-Jérôme Colonna , from whose gang it is said to originate.