the anti-drug operation –

New chapter of the “prison novel” of Rome: the Gang reappears. There’s additionally Marcello Colafigli, one of many historic promoters of the Magliana gang, among the many 28 individuals who acquired a precautionary custody order as a part of an operation within the provinces of Rome, Naples, Foggia and Viterbo. The order, issued by the investigating choose of Rome, was carried out on the first gentle of daybreak by the carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Rome below the coordination of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate. The 28 individuals – 11 recipients of the measure of precautionary custody in jail, 16 of the measure of home arrest and one of many obligation to signal – are charged, for varied causes, with the crimes of affiliation geared toward worldwide drug trafficking, tried theft in competitors, tried extortion in competitors, receiving stolen items and unlawful possession of weapons, failure to adjust to the sentence and aiding and abetting.

The investigations, launched by the Carabinieri of the Rome Investigative Unit and directed by the Rome DDA in June 2020, “made it potential to gather severe circumstantial components relating to the existence of a prison affiliation, with a logistical base within the capital and working within the space of Magliana and the Lazio coast”, we learn in a notice. On the head there would have been Colafigli who, regardless of the semi-freedom regime, “had managed to plan the gross sales and purchases of enormous portions of narcotic substances from overseas (Spain and Colombia), sustaining relationships with exponents of the ‘ndrangheta, the Camorra, the mafia Foggia and with Albanians included in a South American narcos cartel”, reads the notice.

Colafigli was acknowledged with Franco Giuseppucci, Enrico De Pedis, Maurizio Abbatino and Nicolino Selis, as one of many promoters of the Banda della Magliana. Burdened with a number of life sentences, he was convicted, amongst different issues, for the kidnapping and homicide of Duke Massimo Grazioli Lante della Rovere (thought-regarding the motion with which the Gang started its prison exercise) and the homicide, as principal, of “Renatino” De Pedis.