VITERBO – There is also Marcello Colafigli, one of the historical promoters of the Banda della Magliana, among the 28 people recipients of a precautionary custody order as part of an operation in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Foggia and Viterbo.
The order, issued by the investigating judge of Rome, was carried out at the first light of dawn by the carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Rome under the coordination of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
The 28 people – 11 recipients of the measure of precautionary custody in prison, 16 of the measure of house arrest and one of the obligation to sign – are charged, for various reasons, with the crimes of association aimed at international drug trafficking, attempted robbery in competition, attempted extortion in competition, receiving stolen goods and illegal possession of weapons, failure to comply with 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 possible to collect serious circumstantial elements regarding the existence of a criminal association, with a logistical base in the capital and operating in the Magliana area and on the Lazio coast, led by one of the historical promoters of the so-called “Banda della Magliana”, Marcello Colafigli who, despite being on semi-freedom, had managed to plan the sale and purchase of large quantities of narcotic substances from abroad (Spain and Colombia) , maintaining relationships with exponents of the ‘ndrangheta, the Camorra, the Foggia mafia and with Albanians included in a South American narcos cartel. Marcello Colafigli, was recognized together with Franco Giuseppucci, Enrico De Pedis, Maurizio Abbatino and Nicolino Selis, as one of the promoters of the criminal group known as the Banda della Magliana”. Burdened with several life sentences, he was convicted, among other things, for the kidnapping and murder of Duke Massimo Grazioli Lante della Rovere (considered the action with which the Gang began its criminal activity) and the murder, as principal, by Enrico De Pedis.
