The “Maghreb and gypsy milieu”, the new face of the Corsican mafia
Several ongoing cases show the growing weight, according to investigators, of a clan structured around the figure of Yassine Akhazzane, in the Propriano region.

By Jacques Follorou
Published on August 29, 2023 at 06:00, modified on August 29, 2023 at 14:46

Cinema does not only feed on the past, it sometimes predicts the future. This is the observation of magistrates and police officers specialized in the fight against Corsican organized crime. Several ongoing cases attest to the unprecedented weight taken, according to the police, by the “Maghreb and gypsy milieu” within the island mafia. A real sociological revolution that makes these former auxiliaries a force in their own right, which has become essential. An echo, too, of the film A Prophet by Jacques Audiard, released in 2009, which already evoked the loss of influence of the Corsicans against the Arabs within banditry.

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