French Connection

See also: French Connection (homonymy)

The French Connection was a criminal organization French charged to make forward Héroïne since the area of Marseilles until the the United States and whose activity culminated during the Années 1950 and 1960. It at that time provided the majority of heroin available to the United States. It was related to Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, the two large godfathers of the Italian-American Mafia. Its chiefs were two Corsican figures of the Marseilles medium, François Spirito and Antoine Guérini associated with Auguste Ricord of the Brésil, Paul Mondoloni of Corsica and Salvatore Greco of Sicily.

History

The Morphine - bases being used for the preparation of heroin was initially imported Indo-China, then of Turkey. The transformation was operated in clandestine laboratories in Marseilles and its neighborhoods. Marseilles heroin was famous for its great quality, pure with nearly 98% (against 60% to 70% for the other productions of the time). The chemists of the Marseilles Medium, in particular OJ Césari, were particularly qualified.

A note of the CIA gone back to 1961 shows the representative of Ricard in North America, Jean Venturi to be also the distributer of French Connection. It was not worried, but was requested to leave the territory of the United States in 1967.

French Connection fell when the French authorities stopped a certain number of traffickers, following the injunctions, in 1971, of the administration Nixon.

In February 1972, the French customs officers hail the trawler Caprice of times off Marseilles and operate a seizure record of 425 kilograms heroin. This seizure marks the end of “French”. It is not on this date, far is necessary of it that French was dismantled, it is necessary to quote after this seizure record carried out by the customs, dismantling by the judicial police of Marseilles several laboratories of morphine transformation bases out of the heroin, most famous being that discovered in Aubagne known under the name of “Césari Laboratory”. French Connection would have been financed by the money of the fuselage via Auguste Ricord, agent of Lafont, stop in September 1972, judge and condemn to the United States.

Catalog of films

The history of this network inspired the film French Connection of William Friedkin (1971), which gave place to a continuation, French Connection 2 (1975), realized by John Frankenheimer.

References

Alain Jaubert, D… like dopes , Éditions Alain Moreau, 1974
Patrick Chairoff, B… like secret agents , Éditions Alain Moreau, 1975.
Alfred W.McCoy, the Policy of heroin - the implication of the CIA in the drug trafficking , Éditions of the Lizard, ISBN 2910718166
Alfred W. McCoy, Marseilles on heroin , Spirit-rapper, ISBN 2844050786

Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics off Heroin in Southeast Asia , The Washington Monthly Company, 1972. ISBN 0061319422
Henrik Krüger, The Great Heroin Blow , South End Near, 1976. ISBN 0896080315
Newsday , The Heroin Trail , Books Memory, 1974.

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