The former member of the Italian-Grenoble mafia, Jean-Pierre Maldera, was shot down during a shooting this Wednesday, March 12 on the A41. His misdeeds were well known to Nicolas Sarkozy, who followed his file at Place Beauvau.
The end of the Maldera clan. This name, among the best known in the Italian-Grenoble mafia circle, is again mentioned this Wednesday, March 12 after the murder of Jean-Pierre Maldera. The 71 -year -old man died during a shooting on the A41 motorway. A car from the BMW brand, driven by the septuagenarian, was targeted by three or four shooters present aboard a Renault Megane RS Flee. The attackers fired with a Kalachnikov type weapon, according to the first elements of the investigation.
Jean-Pierre Maldera, touched by the gunshots, left his vehicle and tried to flee, but was caught and shot down by his attackers. The former member of the Grenoble underworld was found in cardio-respiratory arrest by help and could not be revived. The attackers took over, abandoning and setting fire to their vehicle which was found in Grenoble.
While an investigation was opened after the shooting, the privileged track seems to be that of the settling of scores, with regard to the operating mode used, common in the Grenoble banditry sector, and the identity of the victim. The attack seems to have been carefully prepared by crime professionals reports The Dauphiné liberated. Jean-Pierre Maldera was undoubtedly the victim of reprisals, a competitor or other circumstances related to his past as a mafia.
When the Maldera brothers aroused the anger of Sarkozy
Jean-Pierre Maldera was known for having been, with his brother Robert Maldera, a great figure of the mafia in Grenoble between the late 1970s and the end of the 1990s. He had been sentenced on numerous occasions for acts of armed robbery, violence with weapons, extortion and pimp. In 1978 and in the 1980s, the Maldera brothers were at the heart of the case say “Grenoble girls” after prostitutes had denounced their executioners. The complainants had highlighted the violence they were victims. “With the Italian-Grenobleois, the girls were martyred and taken for cattle. It was torture. […] They took the city and reigned terror. The great terror came from the Robert and Jean-Pierre Maldera brothers and their team, who tried to kill me, “recalls Paul Weisbuch, a former magistrate who had worked on the case, with the local media The postilion.
Several times condemned, the Maldera brothers have also escaped certain legal proceedings. In 2004, while they had been discreet in recent years, the mafia brothers had found themselves at the heart of a vast matter combining association of criminals, extortion of background in organized gang, pimping, and money laundering. 22 people, including them, had been indicted and 15 had been imprisoned. “We are convinced of having got hold of the bosses in the middle,” said the public prosecutor of Grenoble at the time. The Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, had also rejoiced at the time. It was without counting on a procedural defect identified and used by the lawyer for Jean-Pierre and Robert Maldera leading to the collapse of the file having required years of work, and … the release of the mafia. The twist had angered Nicolas Sarkozy, leaving him a taste of failure, as reported The Parisian.
Disappearance, murders … The Maldera decimated clan
The former pimp has been discreet since the transition to the year 2000. He seemed to have taken his distance from the community of the underworld knowing his threatened life according to information fromHere Auvergne Rhône-Alpes. Jean-Pierre Maldera feared that he happens to him the same thing as his brother? Robert Maldera, who was nicknamed “The Godfather of Grenoble” or “Il Pazzo” – “Le Fou” in Italian, had mysteriously disappeared in September 2015 after his withdrawal from the Grenoble mafia. A volatilization which had quickly suggested a voluntary homicide. Three people were indicted in this case in 2017, but Robert Maldera’s body has never been found.
Of the two brothers, it was Robert Maldera who was most talked about. In 1984, the man had gone so far as to cut a finger and send him to a judge to put pressure and ask for the release of his partner, a 22 -year -old prostitute. He had accompanied his package with a threatening letter to pursue mutilation until his request was granted. The judge had cut off the exchange with a simple answer: “I will only give in if you send me your manly member”. Robert Maldera had not followed up.