A former local mafia boss died Wednesday after he was shot in his car in the middle of a busy highway near the French city of Grenoble, local authorities and sources close to the case said. Maldera was one of the so-called "godfathers" of the Franco-Italian mafia that terrorised the southeastern city in the 1980s,

Jean-Pierre Maldera died after he was shot in his car in the middle of a busy highway near the French city of Grenoble, officials said.