- alain a écrit:
- alain a écrit:
- CS1958 a écrit:
- Ex-OAS, certain, mais membre du SAC, je ne pense pas, même si on parle de liens avec Lucien Ott, professionnels tout au plus. Après 68, des ex-OAS se sont rapprochés il est vrai du SAC au nom de la lutte contre l'ennemi commun selon eux. Comme par exemple l'ancien dernier patron du SAC. A partir de 76 et la création du RPR, ils seront largement marginalisés car "faisant désordre".
Hormis Foccart qui était d'une certaine trempe, le reste ne valait pas tripette.
En parallèle, en réaction à leur éviction du SAC à l'arrivée de Debizet, Pasqua a créé un SAC bis, les CDR si ma mémoire est bonne.
Rien à chercher de ce coté là non plus.
Je pense que tous ces gens n'avaient absolument pas comme préoccupation la Belgique !
La Belgique ,base de repli ,car selon des rapports de la BSR suite aux révélations sur la filière belge (qui ont pour origine l affaire d AURIOL )
les flics vont s'intéresser a plusieurs éléments sur des activités en belgique et ,aussi a des noms :BOUCARD ,andre CONDEMINE ,paul TIBERGHIEN ,.....les sociétés :Procédés PARACHIMIQUES et BEFICO .
a signaler que andre Condemine effectuait fréquemment des voyages au PARAQUAI ,ou il retrouvait auguste RICORD (ce qui ne laisse pas indifférents c est la présence de son ami JEAN SCHRAMME et son camp de mercenaire .
Comme de coutume en EUROPE ,l instruction ouverte par la police belge fut stoppée .........vraisemblablement sous la pression des autorites françaises.(il y a +400 pages de documents sur ces activités )
The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism
Henrik Kruger
Jerry Meldon, Translator
South End Press©1980
Box 68 Astor Station
Boston, MA 02123
ISBN 0-89608-0319-5
240pps - one edition - out-of-print
Orginally published in Danish
Smukke Serge og Heroien
Bogan 1976
--[11]--
ELEVEN
THE CAPTURE OF BEAU SERGE IN BRAZIL
Auguste Ricord's March 1971 imprisonment in Paraguay taught Christian David
and Lucien Sarti that it was time to move on. Their choice of location was
Brazil, in particular Ilha Bella, an island off the coast north of Santos,
conveniently only two hours from Sao Paulo and five from Rio de Janeiro. It
also provided a small harbor and landing strip. The two holed up in the
Bordelao, a small hotel run by Haide Arantez and Claudio Rodriguez, friends
of Sarti's Brazilian mistress, Helena Ferreira.
Beau Serge was by then the undisputed boss of "The Brazilian Connection." Its
other leaders were Sarti, Michel Nicoli,
Andre Condemine, Francois Canazzi,
Jean Lunardi,
Francois Chiappe, Robert Bourdoulous, and Francois ("Fan Fan")
Orsini. Most had known David through SAC. Some had been with Ricord in
Paraguay. Newcomers Orsini and Canazzi were wanted in France for attempted
murder.
Not all the capos lived on Ilha Bella. Some were strategically placed
elsewhere —Chiappe in Buenos Aires, Pastou in Sao Paulo, Sans in Barcelona.
Loosely connected to the permanent core was a long string of collaborators.
The organization was solid. Heroin flowed steadily from Marseilles to Ilha
Bella and on to Miami or New York. But Beau Serge ran into a major obstacle:
the Italian Mafia.
Tomasso Buscetta, one of the Sicilians' most notorious thugs, was ordered to
Brazil in 1970 to prepare a takeover of the narcotics traffic -a logical step
in a larger plan to be described later. Buscetta was wanted in Italy for
murdering twelve people, including seven policemen, in the Cisculli massacre
in Sicily.[1] He's also alleged to have been responsible for the
disappearance of reporter Mauro de Mauro, who had stuck his nose into the
murder of the Italian oil magnate Enrico Mattei.[2]
Within a year of his arrival in Sao Paulo, Buscetta had his legitimate cover:
250 taxis, a chain of snack bars, and an aluminum plant. It was all a front,
and when Ricord was put away Buscetta decided the hour had arrived to move in
on the multi-million dollar dope business. However, he hadn't reckoned with
Beau Serge. Following an extended struggle that ended with David still on
top, Buscetta was forced to play ball like anyone else, and brought with him
into the organization his son Benedetto, Paulo Lilio Gigante, and Guglielmo
Casalini.
Life, though, was not all hard work for David and company. They also found
time for night life in Rio and Sao Paulo, threw lavish parties, and mixed
with film stars, singers and other international celebrities. And still there
was time for politics.
David and others took part in the Argentine
Anticommunist Alliance's (AAA) massacres in Argentina, and remained on good
footing with the Brazilian Death Squad. At the same time SAC agents from
David's coterie lent their expertise to the torture chamber of Sergio Fleury,
head of Sao Paulo's infamous Death Squad.[3]
However, like all other good things David's came to an end. For Beau Serge
and his Brazilian Connection, 1972 was a fateful year in more ways than one.
It began with the arrest in January of Sarti and his girl friend Helena on
suspicion of passing counterfeit money. That proved to be only a police
calling card, as the couple was soon back on the streets.
The late-1971 plugging of French drug smuggling routes had made things
difficult for their U.S. buyers. Aware that Franco-American forces were bent
on crushing the entire French network, New York and Miami Mafia dons treaded
cautiously. Moreover, the arrest of several dealers left the Brazilian
Connection short of customers in early 1972.
In February, shortly before carnival in Rio, David, Sarti, Buscetta and
Nicoli spent three days with Carlo Zippo, a Mafia emissary from New York.[4]
At the meeting, which transpired at Rio's plush Copacabana, Palace hotel, the
mobsters developed a new network and buyer system. Sarti, jittery after his
arrest, would move to Mexico City, the new transit point.
In March Sarti went to Mexico City, where he was joined by his wife Liliane
in an attractive residential district apartment. Sarti had no notion that the
police had been trailing him ever since his entry into Mexico. Somebody had
tipped them off. The Guatemalan authorities were after him for an armed
attack on a bank; he was also wanted by the Bolivian police; and Interpol had
issued descriptions of him everywhere. In the evening of April 17, Sarti and
Liliane left their hideout to go to the movies. Before they got to their car,
they were surrounded by police. Sarti was unarmed, but the police shot and
killed him, and arrested Liliane.[5]
The next day the Mexican Minister of Justice declared that the international
drug trafficker had been killed in a confrontation with the police. A couple
of months later, French newspapers added that Christian David had been in
Mexico City at the time of Sarti's death, but that he had escaped and made it
all the way back to Brazil.[6]
On 7 May 1972 Brazilian police found the body of a young woman washed ashore
on an Ilha Bella beach. It was Haide Arantez, owner of the Bordelao, the
David gang hideout. Examination revealed the cause of death as strangulation.
Another body appeared in the same place the next day. This time it was
Haide's boy friend and partner, Claudio Rodriguez, who'd had his head busted
in. The double-murder suspect was naturally Beau Serge, who was believed to
have knocked off the hotel owners for disclosing the Mexican locale.
Sarti's mistress Helena Ferriera was jailed for her own safety while
Brazilian police, egged on strongly by U.S. narcotics agents, hunted after
the David gang. Besides entertaining the police with stories of the gang's
escapades, Ms. Ferreira also claimed they met frequently with the French
millionaire/playboy/art dealer Fernand Legros.
Whether because of corruption in Brazilian police ranks or an agreement
involving the CIA and BNDD, David's gang remained at large for the time
being, notwithstanding the police manhunt. If he was to be extradited, they
would have to catch him in the act. David, in the meantime, was ensconced in
a Rio villa where he'd set up his mistress Simone Delamare.
In early October 1972 the CIA and BNDD were finally ready to strike when, in
Rio de Janeiro harbor, they discovered sixty kilos of heroin about to be
shipped by the gang to Miami aboard the freighter Mormac Altair. Police
picked up Michel Nicoli in Sao Paulo, and nabbed most of the other members
within days. On October 17, a large police force was dispatched to Simone
Delamare's house, where David's presence was no longer a secret. But Beau
Serge was tipped off and managed to slip away one more time.
On October 21, two alert policemen noticed an obviously nervous young woman
shopping in Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They followed her to a
third class hotel in the seedier side of town. She looked too well-dressed and
sophisticated to stay at such a dive, so the two officers brought her in. At
headquarters they soon determined she was David's girl friend Simone.
Shortly thereafter Beau Serge was packing up when six policemen smashed
through the door to his room. He lunged for a pistol, but was grabbed before
he could fire a shot. What followed was a tussle the officers won't forget.
"He was a master of karate," one of them later reported. "He threw us around
like balls. If there had only been four of us, I don't see how we could have
handled him."
Handcuffs and foot chains were needed to restrain Beau Serge. Nor did he
relent as he lay on the floor, battered and exhausted, but rather tried
bribing the Brazilian officers to release him. He offered each $100,000 plus
tickets anywhere for their entire families. Leaving the hotel room, he
managed, handcuffs and all, to grab a drinking glass, smash it and cut deeply
into his wrist. His goal was a hospital where opportunities for escape were
numerous. But his hospital stay was too short. Guards kept close watch as he
was sewn up in an emergency room before being thrown into a cell. By the next
day he was in a prison in Sao Paulo.
In Beau Serge's valise police found one 9 mm Browning, one silenced Beretta,
one short-barreled Smith and Weson revolver, three cartridges of a crippling
poison, ninety bullet cartridges of various caliber,[7] and a Uruguayan
diplomatic passport in the name of Edouard Davrieux, with a photo of
Christian David.
The arrest was greeted with mixed reactions in France. Worry, anger, and
anxiety were aroused in certain circles, joy in others. At least one person
was delighted: police lieutenant Bellemin-Noel, who looked forward to finally
settling the score with the murderer of his predecessor Galibert —or so he
thought.
Just how great an effort the French made to have David extradited remains in
doubt. Certainly some wanted him back to stand trial. Others preferred that
he never again have the opportunity to talk. There were representatives of
each persuasion in the highest political echelons. Since international law
placed France in the driver's seat, its efforts at extradition must have been
meek at best. Many were dumbfounded when Brazil extradited Christian David to
the U.S.A. without first notifying the French government.
Before extradition to the U.S.A., however, David shocked the world by
"admitting" his complicity in the Ben Barka affair. He also cut the artery in
his wrist a second time, and on the day before his transfer to the U.S.A., he
got hold of a light bulb, crushed it, and swallowed the fragments. However,
he received no medical treatment before arriving in the United States.
According to his own later testimony, he was unaware of his destination when
U.S. narks came for him. Presuming it was France, he resisted violently. The
Americans, he claimed, pumped him so full of drugs he didn't know what was
happening.
During the trial that began within days of his arrival in Brooklyn,
newspapers reported he had been a victim of torture. David himself said: "I
was tortured by Brazilian police for thirty days and fed nothing for
twenty-six. They stole all my money. Today I can't afford a lawyer, I haven't
a cent."
David and Michel Nicoli, who, with Claude-Andre Pastou, had been extradited
to the U. S. before David — each claimed they had been hung head down over a
steam-puffing pipe as the Brazilians administered electric shocks to their
genitals. While David looked awful in court from his self-inflicted wounds,
not a trace of the alleged torture could be seen on Nicoli. The story of
torture certainly doesn't fit David's later desire to return to prison in
Brazil.
On December 1 the court handed down its sentences. Auguste Ricord, extradited
from Paraguay two months earlier, had gotten twenty-seven years. David and
Nicoli now got twenty. Pastou, who gave the Americans important information
on the Delouette affair, got seven. Other Frenchmen in David's gang were
extradited back to France, where they were wanted for murder and other
capital crimes. The only one to avoid arrest was Andre Condemine, who went
underground only to be murdered. Francois Chiappe avoided extradition until
1976, when he was sentenced in New York to twenty years. Tomasso Buscetta and
the gang's three other Italians were nabbed on 5 November 1972, nearly two
weeks after David, and were shipped off to Italy.
Fernand Legros, the mystery man in this and earlier intrigues, was apparently
placed under protective confinement in Rio shortly after David's sentencing
in the United States. Officially he was arrested in connection with art
frauds.[8] Each day, though, he was brought lavish meals including lobster,
champagne, cognac, and fat Havana cigars. The big French underworld shakedown
began just as Legros was "imprisoned." If Legros had aided the CIA in the
David affair, he must have been high on the list of those to be taken care of
on the other side of the Atlantic.
In 1974 SAC agents kidnapped Legros in Brazil, flew him back to France and
locked him up.[9] Somebody was interested in the part he had played in
certain affairs. However, Legros' friend Henry Kissinger, then secretary of
state, came to his aid. Kissinger demanded his release, protesting sharply
the kidnaping of a U.S. citizen.[10]
Legros still fears for his life. As recently as the spring of 1976 a nervous
Legros, surrounded by bodyguards, said he had been threatened by Christian
David's barbouze colleagues and had demanded police protection.
pps 105-110
--[Notes]--
1. The Newsday Staff: The Heroin Trail (Souvenir Press, 1974).
2. J. Sarazin: Dossier M. . . comme Milieu (Alain Moreau, 1977).
3. P. Chairoff: Dossier B ... comme Barbouzes (Alain Moreau, 1975).
4. Zippo was a member of the New York Gambino family (Newsday, op. cit.), whic
h is interesting insofar as the prime customers of the David/ Ricord
organization were Santo Trafficante, jr. and his Cuban Mafia; it is
especially interesting in light of the apparent rift between the so-called
Southern Rim or Sunbelt Mafia -an alliance mainly of Joseph Bonnano,
Trafficante and Carlos Marcello— and the New York families; see D. Moldea: The
Hoffa Wars (Charter Books, 1978). Bonnano, 75, and his nephew Jack
DeFillipi, recently went on trial on federal conspiracy charges involving the
laundering of Mafia money.
5. P. Galante and L. Sapin: The Marseilles Mafia (W.H. Allen, 1979).
6. L'Aurore, 27 July 1972.
7. Le Nouvel Observateur, 13 November 1972.
8. L'Aurore, 31 May 1976.
9. French newspapers published varying conjectures as to the grounds for
Legros' arrest. Most guessed he had been implicated in narcotics smuggling by
association with David's gang. None supposed Legros might have helped lay a
trap for Beau Serge, and therefore was in jail for his own protection.
10. Legros had become an American citizen while working for the CIA.
--[cont]--
Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
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