Overview

• A 2025 Sirasco analysis identifies 20 independent gangs aligned into two major coalitions competing for control of legal markets such as construction, real estate, hospitality and boating.
• Intelligence shows most groups have infiltrated political, social and economic institutions to secure lucrative contracts and launder proceeds.
• Core members of the Petit Bar gang received 10–13 year sentences in Marseille but retain extensive financial resources and alliances with nationalist-linked mafionalistes.
• Late-June arrests in the Camille Orsoni murder inquiry targeted key Mattei clan figures, disrupting one of the second bloc’s chief narcotics operators.
• Despite non-aggression pacts, a resurgence in vendetta killings—six of seven homicides this year—underscores persistent tensions among the blocs.