Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 71-year-old former mafia boss on a motorway near Grenoble in south-eastern France. Jean-Pierre Maldera, described by French media as a "godfather" of the local mafia in the 1980s,

A French former mafia boss dubbed “the godfather” has died after being shot and then run over on a motorway near the city of Grenoble.

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.

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,