Antoine Guérini

Antoine Guérini (* 1902 in Calenzana , Corsica ; † June 23, 1967 in Marseille , France ) was the most powerful mafia boss in Marseille in the 1950s.

biography

Growing up in Corsica, Antoine Guérini came to the mainland to do his military service in 1923 and finally to the port city of Marseille, where he came into contact with the demimond and did business with local gangsters .

During the Second World War he belonged to a smuggling ring that supplied the Resistance with weapons. After the war, Guérini developed into the most powerful mafia boss in Marseille, who totally dominated heroin production , especially in the 1950s .

In the 1960s he grew up with Marcel Francisci , the boss of a flourishing international casino ring , a powerful opponent who challenged him for control of the Marseille demi-world environment. The dispute over market share culminated in the armed struggle between the two gangs, which reached its violent climax between 1965 and 1967. At the end of this, the Guérinis were decisively defeated. Gang leader Antoine Guérini was killed in an assassination attempt in June 1967 when he was riddled with a total of eleven bullets by two contract killers at a gas station in Marseille. His brothers Barthélemy and Pascal were sentenced in January 1970 to 20 and 15 years in prison, respectively, for murder. This made the Guérini dynasty a thing of the past.

Contacts with secret services

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The Guérini family owed their rise to rule over the Marseilles demimonde for a decade and a half primarily to the communist hatred that linked the socialists and Gaullists with the CIA . It was extremely favorable conditions that Antoine had good connections to the British and American secret services since his work as an arms smuggler against the Nazis . For example, on November 15, 1947, the CIA made a pact with the Corsican mafia and had Guérini's followers put down the strike movement by force of arms and murdered the leaders of the communist unions .

Individual references and web links

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