[1] A onetime caïd of the French Connection, he was imprisoned and lived in hiding for 13 years.
He began working as a buyer for his first wife's father and made contacts in organized crime.
However, he managed to escape from prison and lived in hiding for 13 years between France and Germany.
[5] In his 2011 book Confessions d'un caïd, he revealed that Maurice Agnelet was wrongfully convicted in the disappearance of Agnès Le Roux [fr].
He wrote that one of his fellow gangsters, Jeannot Lucchesi, had confessed to him in the 1980s to killing Le Roux and dumping her body in Les Goudes [fr].