![]() The casino, which had been in the hands of Germani's late mentor Richard Casanova, had been taken over by a rival clan, the Guazzellis, following Casanova's assassination.Ĭasanova - also Germani's brother-in-law - was another Corsican mafia big shot, who headed the "Brise de Mer," or "Sea Breeze" gang, named after a café in the port of Bastia where the mobsters held their meetings. He is perhaps best known for showing up with a team of heavies at the Paris Wagram casino in January 2011 to wrestle back control of the gambling establishment. Alex Hortis wrote about them in the The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York.Īs the website Vice noted in a report on the story: From the port city of Marseilles, the Corsicans ran smuggling operations throughout the Mediterranean. Although French, they even speak in an Italian dialect. The Corsicans are culturally similar to the families of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. As we noted: The American Mafia was supplied with heroin by the Sicilian Cosa Nostra working with crime families based on the French Island of Corsica. Readers of The Cicale Files: Inside the Last Great Mafia Empire will be familiar with the Corsican Mafia, which is more similar to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra than one would think at first blush. Germani was charged and jailed in 2009 but eventually freed. The 49-year-old Germani was previously wanted for the 2008 murder of Jean-Claude Colonna, a cousin of former Corsican godfather Jean-Jé Colonna, who died in a mysterious car accident in 2006. Germani was charged with threatening police officers with a firearm outside his trailer in 2011, according to AFP. Corsican mobster Jean-Luc Germani, France's most wanted man, was arrested Thursday by Paris police.īranded the last of the Corsican godfathers by French media, Germani, on the lam for three years, was arrested when a detective in the midst of tailing another man recognized him, despite a drastic change in appearance (he'd put on weight and grown his hair long he was also wearing a baseball cap and eyeglasses).
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