Originally Posted by Malavita
Originally Posted by Nitro


I think Sardinia bandits never get this kind of protection. Never forgett after the II WW cosa nostra was finish. But they get "green light" to rebuild because they need them to fight against left groups.
Sardinia never had a secret society like CN. But of course they have criminals groups. In old days they also had vendettas.


Good point.

The Corsican mob also benefited greatly from the end of WW2. They played a key role in the French Resistance networks and were rewarded when the war was over. They were given control of the gambling clubs in Paris (called "Cercles de jeux") which are, to this day, the only gambling places allowed in the Paris area. The Corsicans were already running Marseille underworld, turning it into the drug capital of the world for some time, and the decision to have them run the Paris gambling clubs allow them to get a piece of the Paris underworld, making them the biggest CO in France. Finally, Corsicans are also heavily involved in gambling in French speaking Africa and that also goes back to the post WW2 era.

So I guess, as you said, one of the reasons why Sardinians didn't follow the path of their Sicilian and Corsican cousins is also because they were not given the same opportunities at the end of WW2.


I think I read somewhere Corsicans and Sardinians are actually very close in terms of genetic ancestry as well as language.

I also feel for the Sicilians and the Corsicans it was a bit of a "right time, right place" situation. Sicily was close to a major country (and market) like Italy, while Corsica was claimed by France which allowed criminals to move to the south of the country and seeing Marseille was a major port city it was ripe for exploitation. Sardinian criminal never really had these opportunities so something like a major "underworld" never really came into fruition.

And once an actual underworld has been allowed to grow and manifest itself in a society, it's nearly impossible to eradicate it. The Sicilian mafia is still going strong and the Corsicans as well are still in business. They largely moved away from narcotics - in France that seems to be an Algerian thing these days - but they still make a lot of money with casino and gambling rackets. And outsiders encroaching on that turf, are still put out of business with the quickness.

Last edited by TheKillingJoke; 04/12/20 03:45 PM.