The Mafia corsa refers to criminal organizations originating from Corsica, with a tradition of banditry and violence. It operates primarily in Corsica, Marseille, and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, with extensions to North Africa, the Antilles, and South America. The groups are numerous, often small, and involved in extortion, drug trafficking (notably the French Connection heroin network), and high rates of homicide. The most prominent recent group is the Petit Bar gang of Ajaccio.
CRIMENET has extracted 37 linkages for this organization, including 23 cooperative ties across 12 organizations, 1 conflicts across 1 organization, 13 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
they organized the French Connection, a massive heroin trafficking operation based in Marseille that sold to the American Mafia.