Corsican organized crime has been operating more "underground" for at least the last two decades. Organized drug crime is more of a hot topic in France these days and the drug trade is dominated by Algerians in the big cities.

Corsican gangsters however are definitely operating in a rather sophisticated and shrewd way as far as organized crime goes. And they were deep in the '70s and early '80s. Family of mine lived in Brussels back in those days. The heroin trade in Brussels was completely controlled by French guys who in turn worked with the Corsican mob that operated from Marseille. Family of my father's side lived in an apartment above a bar operated by some shady French guy. That guy often had visits from guys coming over from the South of France - apparently you could tell by the accent and French-Corsican gangsters were spoken often about and were very feared in those days, even in Belgium. Anyway, that French guy who owned the bar in the apartment was sketchy, but also a bit of a loudmouth and not the sharpest tool in the shed. One day he just packed to leave for the French Riviera. Nobody heard anything about that guy for months and after a while word got back to the people living in that block that they found him burned to death in his car in Marseille. The French-Corsican heroin underworld was ruthless back in the days and they didn't think twice about having you clipped when they had a hunch you could become a liability.