Giovanni Falcone investigated them. He learned that the chemists of the French Connection had moved clandestine labs for refining heroin from Marseille to Sicily.
In a photo taken in October 1986, Italian Judge Giovanni Falcone (2ndL), is surrounded by his bodyguards in Marseille to meet his French counterparts to investigate in the Mafia ‘Pizza Connection’ criminal plot
Unsolved Mysteries: The Assassination of Marcel Francisci Was the 1982 Assassination of Marcel Francisci Leftovers From the Infamous “French Connection”?
Francisci was the owner of a lucrative international gambling syndicate with lavish casinos in Paris, London and Beirut. He ran the prestigious Cercle Hausmann in Paris.