Mafia chief. Nicknamed "thick lips" or "Marcel the Corsican" he begun his crime rampage in 1947 with a bank robbery. This was followed by drug trafficking, organized prostitution, racketeering, trading in weapons and smuggling operating from Marseilles to United States. In the late fifties he became a member of the terrorist Organization du Armée Secret, OAS, which fought against the independence of Algiers from France, and was accused of specializing in torturing prisoners. Born to a poor family in Corsica he joined the French Army in 1937, and was taken prisoner in 1940, when allegedly he became a Gestapo collaborator, according to a non official biography. He arrived in Argentina as a stow-away by sea in 1965 and a few years later was imprisoned for an armed robbery at Banco de la Nacion Argentina, which took 68 million dollars of that time. However in 1973, on the return of civilian rule to Argentina and when political prisoners and guerrillas were set free, he walked away among the crowd. He was later accused of involvement with right wing hit squads that proliferate in Argentina in the seventies. But he never returned to jail and moved to the sierras of Cordoba where he lived, apparently peacefully, with his Argentine wife. Although he arrived in Argentina as an illegal immigrant at the moment of registering at the elderly home his relatives showed an Argentine passport to his name. who inspired the famous film "The French Connection" in 1971. He died in a nursing home with symptoms of senile dementia.
Mafia chief. Nicknamed "thick lips" or "Marcel the Corsican" he begun his crime rampage in 1947 with a bank robbery. This was followed by drug trafficking, organized prostitution, racketeering, trading in weapons and smuggling operating from Marseilles to United States. In the late fifties he became a member of the terrorist Organization du Armée Secret, OAS, which fought against the independence of Algiers from France, and was accused of specializing in torturing prisoners. Born to a poor family in Corsica he joined the French Army in 1937, and was taken prisoner in 1940, when allegedly he became a Gestapo collaborator, according to a non official biography. He arrived in Argentina as a stow-away by sea in 1965 and a few years later was imprisoned for an armed robbery at Banco de la Nacion Argentina, which took 68 million dollars of that time. However in 1973, on the return of civilian rule to Argentina and when political prisoners and guerrillas were set free, he walked away among the crowd. He was later accused of involvement with right wing hit squads that proliferate in Argentina in the seventies. But he never returned to jail and moved to the sierras of Cordoba where he lived, apparently peacefully, with his Argentine wife. Although he arrived in Argentina as an illegal immigrant at the moment of registering at the elderly home his relatives showed an Argentine passport to his name. who inspired the famous film "The French Connection" in 1971. He died in a nursing home with symptoms of senile dementia.
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