Police are investigating the deadly taking pictures of a 71-year-old former mafia boss on a motorway close to Grenoble in south-eastern France.
Jean-Pierre Maldera, described by French media as a “godfather” of the native mafia within the Eighties, was reportedly chased in his automotive and shot as he travelled up the A41 motorway on Wednesday morning.
The shooters fled the scene and the burnt-out stays of the stolen Renault Megane automotive they have been driving was present in a Grenoble parking zone shortly after.
His dying comes ten years after the disappearance of his youthful brother, Robert Maldera, one other mafia boss reportedly nicknamed “the madman” by members of Grenoble’s legal underworld.
Regional newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré reported Maldera left the BMW he was driving and tried to flee on foot throughout the motorway.
He was chased and killed by the assailants within the assault involving three or 4 gunmen, native media stated.
They’re reported to have used a military-grade weapon, reminiscent of a Kalashnikov rifle, to hold out the killing.
Maldera is reported to have been a key determine within the so-called “Italo-Grenoblois” mafia group throughout the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, alongside along with his brother Robert.
In 2004, the pair have been discovered responsible of a collection of offences linked to organised crime, although they have been launched the next 12 months on account of an administrative error, in accordance with the French media.
Nonetheless, this was not the primary time Maldera had been convicted. He had a rap sheet stretching again to the Seventies, in accordance with French regional media outlet France 3.
However Maldera appeared to go for a quieter life after his launch from jail within the early 2000s, with AFP information company reporting the authorities didn’t hear of him once more till his taking pictures this week.
It’s not clear if Maldera was nonetheless concerned in legal exercise on the time of his dying.
His brother Robert disappeared in 2015 on the age of 55.
He went lacking after attending a gathering on the outskirts of Grenoble. His automotive was found two months later in a parking zone close by.
A supply who had investigated the Maldera brothers informed France 3 that Jean-Pierre had been the mind behind their schemes, whereas Robert had been the brawn.
