Corsica mafia boss Jean-Luc Germani arrested in Paris.

Posted on November 28, 2014 by bill

Arrestation de Jean-Luc Germani : une figure du grand banditisme corse. A big Corsican bandit.

Portrait par Rédaction de France Info vendredi 28 novembre 2014

Germani a été condamné dans l’affaire du cercle Wagram © Maxppp. Sentenced for the Wagram affair.

Fin de cavale pour Jean Luc Germani arrêté jeudi à côté de Paris, à Neuilly. Le Corse de 49 ans était recherché depuis 3 ans. Cette figure du milieu a un casier judiciaire très chargé. Jean Luc Germani’s gallop was put to an end by his arrest last Thursday in Neuilly, Paris. The 49 year old Corsican has been hunted for 3 years. He is mixed up in the complicated judicial case.

A 49 ans, Jean-Luc Germani est considéré comme l’un des membres les plus dangereux du milieu corse. Il a été arrêté jeudi après-midi à Paris après trois années de cavale. Il a été interpellé dans le quartier d’affaires de la Défense, dans les Hauts-de-Seine, un peu par hasard puisque les policiers voulaient en fait arrêter l’homme qui l’accompagnait. Bien que méconnaissable, cheveux longs, casquettes, lunettes, un enquêteur l’a reconnu. Qui est-il ?

Jean-Luc Germani is considered on of the most dangerous Corsican mafia man. After his arrest in Neuilly he was questioned in the business quarter of la Defence, more by chance when the police wanted to arrest the man he was with at the time. Although he was initially unrecognisable, long hair, cap, glasses, an investigator recognised him. Was it him?

Sa carrière de délinquant commence par une banal vol de moto et d’explosifs en 1986, puis très vite il se fait un nom dans le grand banditisme dans les années 90. Le milieu est alors dirigé par le gang dit “de la Brise de mer”, il est d’ailleurs le beau-frère de l’un des chefs, Richard Casanova, cerveau présumé du casse de l’UBS à Genève en 1990 (125 millions de francs jamais retrouvés) et assassiné en 2008.

His career as a criminal started with a common-place robbery of a motorcycle and explosives in 1986, then very quickly he made his name as a major criminal in the 90s. Involved and then the leader of a gang said to be “the Sea Breeze”, he was with his brother-in-law Richard Casanova, one of the leaders and brains behind the robbery of UBS in Geneva in 1990 (125 million Francs, never recovered) and assassinated in 2008. 

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