Former mafia boss shot dead on Grenoble motorway

‘Godfather’ ex-mafia boss shot and run over on motorway after high-speed chase

Jean-Pierre Maldera, 71, was a top crime boss in the French city of Grenoble (Picture: AFP) A former boss of a French-Italian mafia family has died after being shot and then run over on a motorway. Jean-Pierre Maldera, 71, was driving his BMW near the southeastern city of Grenoble when a car containing three or four gunmen came up alongside him, local authorities say. One opened fire using an assault rifle believed to be a Kalashnikov, hitting M…

The shooting took place on 12 March at around 10.30 a.m., on the A41 motorway at Domène, between Chambéry and Grenoble.

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Former mafia godfather shot dead on French highway 10 years after his brother mysteriously vanished

Jean-Pierre Maldera died after he was shot in his car in the middle of a busy highway near the French city of Grenoble, officials said.

A former mafia boss was killed on a highway near Grenoble, in the south-east of France. The 71-year-old Jean-Pierre Maldera was an influential man in the mafia, especially in the 80s and 90s. The police once called him “the godfather of Grenoble”. Maldera was chased in his car on the A41 on Wednesday morning and shot at with kalashnikovs. After being hit in the arm, he got out in an attempt to escape the shooters. Afterwards, he was hit by one o…

Sentenced to 15 years in prison for armed robbery, in 1986, Jean-Pierre Maldera, 71, long-time boss of the "Italo-Grenoblois" clan, was executed on Wednesday 12 March on the A41 in the pure tradition of great banditry.