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Unione Corse
| Founding location | Marseille, France |
|---|---|
| Years active | 1930s–1970s |
| Territory | France (mainly Corsica and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) |
| Ethnicity | Corsican and Italian French |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, drug trafficking, gambling, extortion, robbery, loan sharking, weapons trafficking, pimping, fraud, murder, bribery and fencing |
| Allies | American Mafia Sicilian Mafia Camorra |
The Unione Corse is a term designating the Corsican organized crime as a whole during the period 1930s–1970s, in the context of the French Connection, an international heroin trade network operated at that time between Turkey, Southern France, and the United States.[1][2] A 1972 Time article described the "Unione Corse" as a Corsican-based unified and secretive crime syndicate akin to the American Five Families. The local situation in Southern France during this period was in reality more complex, with a nebula of mainly Corsican and Italian-French clans cooperating or fighting each other according to the circumstances and opportunities. If they constituted a key element of the wider French Connection, flooding the American market with Marseille-produced heroin from the 1950s to early 1970s, those clans remained overshadowed by the much more powerful Italian-American Mafia.
- ^ Costa, De Leon Petta Gomes da (2018). Organized Crime and the Nation-State: Geopolitics and National Sovereignty. Routledge. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-429-76059-4.
- ^ Boittin, Jennifer Anne (2022). Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-82225-9.
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