-Caveat Lector-
an article from:
Blacklisted News, Secret History . . . From Chicago, '68, to 1984
�1983 Youth International Party Information Service
Bleecker Publishing
POB 392
Canal St. Station
New York, NY 10012
ISBN 0-912873-00-0
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Some old news but very interesting.
Om
K
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Heroin Fascism,
Marseilles, the '30's
The first link between the Corsicans and the political world came about with
the emergence in the 1920's of Marseilles' first "modem" gangsters, Francois
Spirito and Paul Bonnaventure Carbone (the jolly heroes of 1970's popular
French film, Borsalino). Until their rise to prominence, the milieu was
populated by a number of colorful pimps and gunmen whose ... most stable form
of investment was usually 2 or 3 prostitutes....
Carbone and Spirito changed all that .... Their 20-year-old partnership
permanently transformed the character of the Marseilles milieu.
This enterprising team's first major venture was the establishment of a
Frenchstaffed brothel in Cairo in the late 1920's .... Upon their return to
Marseilles ... they proceeded to organize prostitution on a scale previously
unknown. But more significantly, they recognized the importance of political
power in protecting large-scale criminal ventures and its potential for
providing a source of income through municipal graft.
In 1931 Carbone and Spirito, reached an understanding" with Simon Sabiani,
Marseille's Fascist deputy mayor, who proceeded to appoint Carbone's brother
director of the municipal stadium and open municipal employment to associates
of the two underworld leaders. In return for these favors, Carbone and
Spirito, organized an elite corps of gangsters that spearheaded violent
Fascist street demonstrations during the depression years of the 1930's. All
across Europe fascism was gaining strength: Mussolini ruled Italy, Hider was
coming to power in Germany, and emerging French Fascist groups were trying to
topple the republic through maw violence. Communist and Socialist
demonstrators repeatedly rushed to the defense of the republic, producing a
series of bloody confrontations throughout France. In Marseilles Carbone and
Spirito were the vanguard of the rightwing. In February 1934 ... several days
after an inflammatory speech by a Fascist army general, massive street
demonstrations erupted on the Canebiere, Marseilles' main boulevard. The
thousands of leftist dock workers and union members who took to the streets
dominated this political confrontation until Carbone and Spirito's political
shock force fired on the crowd with pistols. The national police intervened,
the workers were driven from the streets, and the wounded were carted off to
the hospital.
After four years of battling Sabiani's underworld allies in the streets, the
left settled its political differences long enough to mount a unified
electoral effort that defeated Sabiani and placed a Socialist mayor in office.
Although the leftist electoral victory temporarily eclipsed the Fascist-
Corsican alliance, the rise of fascism had politicized the Marseilles
underworld and marked its emergence as a major force in city politics.
Although they had lost control of the municipal government, Carbone and
Spirito's economic strength had hardly declined. The emergence of organized
narcotics trafficking in the U.S. provided Carbone with the opportunity to
open a heroin laboratory in the early 1930's, while the outbreak of the
Spanish civil war enabled him to engage in the arms traffic.
Carbone and Spirito found their political influence restored in 1940, when
German troops occupied Marseilles. Faced with one of the more active
resistance movements in France, the Nazi Gestapo unit assigned to Marseilles
became desperate for informants and turned to the most prestigious figures in
the underworld, who were only too willing to collaborate.
On July 14, 1942 the Resistance showed its strength for the first time by
machine-gunning the headquarters of a pro-German political organization in
downtown Marseilles (the PPF, whose regional director was the Fascist ex-Mayor
Simon Sabiani). The following afternoon Carbone and Spirito handed the Gestapo
a complete list of all those involved. For these and other invaluable
services, they were lavishly rewarded. This prosperity was short-lived,
however, for in 1943 Carbone was killed en route to Marseilles when his train
was blown up by the Resistance, and following the Normandy landing in 1944
Spirito fled to Spain with Sabiani.
In 1947 Spirito came to the U.S. where he enjoyed an active role in the New
YorkMarseilles heroin traffic. However, he was arrested in New York 3 years
later on a heroin smuggling charge and sentenced to 2 years in Atlanta Federal
Prison. Upon his release he returned to France, where he was arrested and
tried for wartime collaboration with the Nazis; however, after only eight
months in prison he retired to manage a restaurant on the French Riviera ...
while he remained active in the heroin business....
pps 181-182
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Kris
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