![]() The area of Propriano (South) in particular is one of the most. Commissaire Mireille Ballestrazzi, 38, nicknamed the 'Ice Doll', is due to take up her new post, one of the toughest in the French police, next month. The mafia has taken root in Corsica with few consequences Arsons, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, extortion incidents. THE French government is about to name the first female police chief for Corsica, the newspaper Le Figaro reported yesterday. The Corsicans gained political influence and control over the docksideal conditions for cementing a long-term partnership with mafia drug distributors. Leo Battesti, a former FLNC fighter who was sentenced to nine years in jail in 1978 but now campaigns for an end to the guerrilla campaign, said last week that the atmosphere of insecurity had had a devastating effect on the island's young who often thought their choice of career was limited to 'the hood (of the clandestine guerrilla) or big- time banditry'. Dozens of members of the mob, including a half dozen from South Florida have been. In some cases, blatantly ordinary criminals claim a political motive. Beautiful Corsica is 'in the grip of the mafia', groups warned Credit: Getty Images They demanded a ban on new supermarket chains and to replace foreigners by Corsicans in all jobs, as well as. With at least three groups conducting an underground campaign against the state, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between revolutionary acts and ordinary crime. 2 Historically, the raw material for most of the heroin consumed in the United States came from Indochina, then Turkey. What has affected crime on the island has been the rise in the number of arms since nationalist violence took off in the Seventies. The Corsican Gang was protected by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the SDECE after World War II in exchange for working to prevent French Communists from bringing the Old Port of Marseille under their control. ![]() ![]() A prosecutor said in court that, if mainland France had been similarly afflicted, the metropolis would have seen 8,000 violent deaths last year. Last year, there were 40 murders and 180 other incidents in which arms were used. ![]()
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