US EditionFormer mafia boss shot dead on Grenoble motorway
- Jean-Pierre Maldera, a former mafia boss, was shot and killed while driving on a busy highway near Grenoble on March 12, 2025, according to local authorities and sources close to the case.
- Maldera, 71, had ties to the Franco-Italian mafia in the 1980s, alongside his brother, Robert, who went missing in 2015, as reported by a source close to the case.
- Three to four gunmen in a stolen vehicle reportedly used military-grade weapons to shoot at Maldera before he was shot dead as he attempted to flee on foot, according to Le Dauphine Libere.
- The vehicle used by the assailants was later found burned in a parking lot a few kilometers away, as noted by AFP.
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‘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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The lawyer Niçois Me Franck De Vita, who had been defending Jean-Pierre Maldéra (and his brother before his disappearance in 2015) for a quarter of a century, said he was sorry after the death of his client, killed Wednesday morning on the A41 motorway.
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…
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