Just looking at a map of Corsica, anyone can see that Corsica is closer to Italy than it is to France. Could it be that the Unione Corse is really another form of Southern Italian OC?
Corsica became part of France in 1768 (and had previously been ruled by the Republic of Genoa since 1284), whereas most historians say that the mafia did not begin in Sicily and the South of Italy until the early 1800s.
Nonetheless, there does seem to be a kind of "intuitive" relationship between Corsican & Southern Italian organized crime
Does Sardinia have a mafia?
