![]() Pro-autonomy parties won an unprecedentedly high vote in last Sunday's first round of local assembly elections and are expected to take control of it in the second round next Sunday. He was jailed for two and a half years in 2013 for his role in an attempt to take control of a Paris casino.Ĭorsica has a long history of organised crime, including the heroin smuggling networks that inspired William Friedkin's 1972 film The French Connection.Ĭorsican nationalists waged a bombing campaign for nearly four decades before laying down their arms in 2014. BROTHERHOODS ARE TRACED, INCLUDING THE GARDUNA IN SPAIN, THE MAFIA IN SICILY AND AMERICA, THE AMERICAN COSA NOSTRA, AND THE CORSICAN UNIONE CORSE. Advertisement But despite the lack of progress on the official investigation, Susini’s uncle, Jean-Toussaint Plasenzotti, is sure the killing of his 36-year-old nephew, a well-known political and. ![]() Quilichini is an associate of Jean-Luc Germani, the brother-in-law of Richard Casanova, a member of a notorious gang in the north of the island who was murdered in 2008. ![]() Quilichini was convicted in 2016 of conspiring to murder Jean-Claude Colonna, the cousin of south Corsican mafia boss Jean-Baptiste Jérôme Colonna, known as "Jean-Jé".Ĭodaccioni, who was at the airpot after being allowed to leave the island for personal business, was still serving time for his role in the same killing. Officials say they believe he was not targeted by the attackers, two men who fled in a black Volkswagen, according to police.Ī murder inquiry has been opened but Bastia public prosecutor Caroline Tharot has handed the case over to the organised crime unit in Marseille. ![]() Antoine Quilichini, 49, known as "Tony the Butcher", died on the spot from a bullet to the head and Jean-Luc Codaccioni, 54, who was on leave from prison, was flown by helicopter to hospital after being shot in a carpark at the airport at Bastia on the north of the island.Ī third man, who was 35-years-old, was lightly wounded in the buttock as he tried to flee the scene. The Corsican mafia is a set of criminal groups originating from Corsica.The mafia is closely tied to both the French underworld and the Italian Mafia.The Corsican mafia is an influential organized crime structure operating in France, Russia, and many African and Latin American countries. ![]()
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