page_title: Milieu (organized crime in France)
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Milieu (organized crime in France) / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: Étienne Monier (1889 - 1913), anarchist and criminal, member of the Bande à Bonnot (Bonnot Gang), executed by guillotine. Français&#160;: Étienne Monier (1889 - 1913), anarchiste et criminel, membre de la Bande à Bonnot, guillotiné.
context_page_description: Primarily, organized crime in France is based in its urban, major cities such as Marseille, Grenoble, Paris, and Lyon. Organized criminals are collectively known as the French Mob and singularly known as les beaux voyous operating within Le Milieu.
  From the 1900s to the late 1930s, activities within Le Milieu were primarily prostitution, bookmaking, fencing, and hijacking. Favored criminal activity in France turned to bank robbery, drug trafficking, and smuggling from 1940 to the late 1970s. The 1980s saw a resurgence of large-scale bank robberies and heists. From 1990 to 2000, criminal organizations established complex extortion rings in Marseille extending to Aix-en-Provence and the greater French Riviera. Since 2002, Le Milieu is known for, in addition to its extortion rings, large counterfeiting and white-collar crime operations. Due to increased financial regulation, Le Milieu has collectively pushed to integrate their crime profits into the legal economy.
  France's geographical location makes it an attractive venue for trafficking and counterfeiting. The port of Marseille is a hub for Le Milieu to move large amounts of product into domestic and European markets.
context_section_description: Due to the early historical connection the Corsican mafia shares with the Sicilian one, the modern structure of most French mobs typically break down into crime families with a strict hierarchy. Usually the goodfellas that carry out "orders" are known as une équipe multi-qualifiée (i.e. a multi-skilled team) composed of les beaux voyous (i.e. "the good fellows"). Most of these groups of members maintain and protect "mouvances" (i.e. territory). Members of the French Mob are highly professional as compared to lower-level crime groups in that they usually split their work by specialty (e.g. some members serve as the "brain", while others the "muscle" and/or "specialist". 
  Caïd (French: [kay-id] "the big boss"; "the boss")
  Parrain (French: [pah-rahn] "godfather")
  Spécialiste (French: [speh-sjah-leest] "specialist")
  Associés ("associate")
  Beaux voyous ([bow vwah-yo] "goodfella"; "the good fellows")
  Externally, and more generally, the organization of the French mob is as follows:
  Le Milieu (French: [luh mil-yuh]) "the underworld") / The French Mob: a general term for criminal organizations in France
  Mafia-type criminal organizations (e.g. the Corsican mafia): a criminal organization composed of crime families with structural roots in the Sicilian Mafia
  Gangs (e.g. Rédoine Faïd gang, Gang des postiches): a smaller criminal group with a soft hierarchy
  Crime families (e.g. Carbone crime family): a subset of a mafia-type organization that executes orders and/or missions
caption: Étienne Monier, a beau voyou of the Bande à Bonnot
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