François Spirito

Paul Carbone (top) and François Spirito

François Spirito was an Italian-French gangster, member of the Marseille underworld. He was an associate of Paul Carbone. During the Second World War, he worked in the Carlingue, an organisation that collaborated with the Gestapo.

After the French Liberation, Spirito fled to Spain and thence to South America, where he took part in the French Connection heroin trade. He was put on trial in 1952 for collaborationism and died on October 9, 1967.

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