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For a few years after the war, the Corsican Mafia of Marseille, the “French Connection”, was the main global network for the production and trafficking of heroin. Morphine base extracted from opium from Turkish poppy fields was refined in labs hidden away in the hinterland of Provence and then smuggled in suitcases, cargo holds, or even inside the panels of American cars to the huge illegal US market.

The french connection keep in touch  Connection was characterized by a permanent reconfiguration of the whole apparatus in response to police suppression and to new opportunities offered by the growing international drug market. In this way, the French Connection was merely one phase of a worldwide Mafia, but a particularly visible and central one.

A few myths have grown up around this story. One of them is that the whole affair was a conspiracy hatched by shadowy agents of the Gaullist French state and the Mafia in the United States. This was a myth that gained considerable purchase in France, where it became an essential element of the anti-Americanism that pervaded popular culture at that time.

Another myth was that the network disappeared completely as a result of a massive campaign carried out by French and international law enforcement agencies. This was based on the belief that, as soon as drug addiction became a public health problem in France (following a media frenzy caused by the death by overdose of a girl in Bandol), inertia gave way to action.

The truth is that, although the French Connection was certainly a large and visible element of a global underground market, it did not have control over it. Rather, it was a link in a polyarchic system that included commercial partners and even subcontractors of the Cosa Nostra in the US.

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