François Marcantoni (May 28th 1920, Corsica) is a Corsican gangster, member of French resistance, a bank robber and a writer. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Corsica (Corse Corsican and Italian: Corsica) is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily The Unione Corse, also known as the Corsican mafia is a highly secretive Criminal organization operating primarily out of Corsica and Marseilles. For other uses see Gangsta. A gangster is a criminal who is or at some point almost invariably becomes a member of a persistent violent The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German Bank robbery is the Crime of robbing a Bank. It is also called a bank heist, especially in the United States. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms
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In 1942, during World War Two, Marcantoni participated in a sabotage operation in Toulon. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Toulon ( Provençal Occitan: Tolon in classical norm or Touloun in Mistralian norm is a city in southern France and a large He refused to collaborate with the regime of Vichy France. Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944
In the 1950s he was involved in a series of bank robberies. At this period he met movie star-to-be Alain Delon. For other uses including various songs titled "Movie Star" see Movie star (disambiguation. Alain Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a César Award -winning French Actor.
Marcantoni was under investigation in 1968 for the killing of Stevan Markovic, a bodyguard of Alain Delon. Stevan Markovic (born May 10 1937 Belgrade, Serbia &mdash died October 1 1968 Paris, France) was a Bodyguard of Moviestar One of the factors pointing in his direction was a letter Markovic sent to his brother Aleksandar where he writhed: "If I get killed, it's 100% fault of Alain Delon and his godfather Francois Marcantoni. "
Marcantoni spent 11 months in custody but was released in December 1969 because the prosecutor could not prove his guilt.
He wrote a few books:
Francois Marcantoni [1]