Big crime: José Menconi, figure of the Corso-Marseille environment, arrested in the Val-de-Marne
As part of a hack related to the affairs of the Petit Bar gang, the 55-year-old former robber, well known to the authorities, was arrested this Wednesday morning by the gendarmes in Nogent-sur-Marne.

José Menconi, a 55-year-old ex-robber, described as a figure in the Corso-Marseille environment, once close to the Bastia gang of the Brise de Mer , was arrested this Wednesday morning in Nogent-sur-Marne (Val- de-Marne) before being placed in police custody in the premises of the Pontoise gendarmerie (Val-d'Oise).

This operation, in which a dozen suspects were arrested in Corsica and on the continent, concerns cases of laundering the criminal activities of the Petit Bar gang which would involve tens of millions of hidden investments.

In early October, José Menconi, released from prison in June 2016 after spending more than thirteen years behind bars, had already been indicted in connection with an assassination attempt in September 2018 on a suspected member of the great Corsican banditry, Guy Orsoni . In this case, the courts reproach him in particular for his links with the so-called Petit Bar gang in Ajaccio (Corse-du-Sud), whose alleged godfather, Jacques Santoni, is suspected of having sponsored this criminal project against the son of Alain Orsoni, the former nationalist leader and ex-president of the football club AC Ajaccio.