The elderly heiress of a real-estate
dynasty based in Monaco on Wednesday remained in serious
condition after being ambushed by gunfire outside a hospital in
Nice late Tuesday.
Investigators suspect Italy's powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia,
the country's most lucrative and international organized-crime
group, may be behind the attack.
"Even if for the moment the investigators are not favoring
one lead over another, the Italian mafia could be at the root of
this attack," wrote French news site LeFigaro.it.
"Counterintelligence deems the 'threat' serious, evoking
suspicions of infiltration by the Calabrian mafia from
Ventimiglia," the news source wrote, speaking of a town that
lies on the coastal border between France and Italy.
Helene Pastor, 77, was shot in her car at the exit of the
parking lot of the L'Archet Hospital in Nice, where she had gone
to visit her hospitalized son.
Pastor and her driver were both seriously injured in the
shooting.
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