Fabrizio Calvi

Fabrizio Calvi (27 May 1954 – 23 October 2021) was a French investigative journalist who specialized in cases involving organized crime and the secret services. He worked as a writer and journalist and was the author of several films. He wrote more than 20 books and 40 films, including Série noire au Credit Lyonnais, L'orchestre noir, Les routes de la terreur 911 and Elf, une afrique sous influence, all of which were broadcast by Arte. Calvi was involved in the birth of the newspaper Libération, where he specialized in foreign policy. From 1976, he covered social movements and terrorist groups in Italy. By the late 1970s, he followed the Mafia wars in Sicily and witnessed the birth of the anti-Mafia pool of the court of Palermo. From his many visits to Sicily, he wrote two bestsellers, La vie quotidienne de la Mafia and L'europe des parrains, both of which have been translated into ten languages, and a dozen documentary films such as La parade des saigneurs and Familles macabres. In 1979, Calvi handled major investigations for Liberation, writing The Islamic Bomb and publishing revelations about the role played by France in a vast trafficking operation of uranium from Namibia, wh…

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