This book tells the story of one of the greatest figures of the Marseilles milieu from the 1960s to 1984. It is the faithful mirror of an era when organized crime was powerfully structured under the orders of a leader, a “godfather”. From his beginnings in the Cayolle district in the 1950s to his mysterious end in his cell at the Baumettes in 1984, this is the story of Zampa’s rise and fall in a city where the underworld is part of the scenery. Troubled links with political power, control of cabarets, brothels, illegal casinos, settling of scores, arm wrestling with the Guerinis or Francis “The Belgian”, bloody episodes, Judge Michel’s crusade against the kingpin… This biography retraces the extraordinary destiny of Marseille’s last great godfather.
