'Ndrangheta, the fugitive boss Gallace arrested in Nettuno: he was hiding in a closet

A boss never strays too far from his home. The hunters of fugitives know this and the confirmation comes from the Carabinieri del Ros, who arrested Antonio Gallace in Nettuno . In the environment nicknamed Michael Jackson.

The 59-year-old went into hiding for nearly two years and was captured last night at his home in the Roman coast town, where he was found hiding in a closet. The arrested is one of the exponents of the homonymous mafia family originally from Guardavalle, in the province of Catanzaro, which has taken root between Anzio and Nettuno.

The Gallaces are at the center of the "Appia" investigation, the first on the affairs of the mafias on the coast south of Rome and mainly on drug trafficking, which in 2005 led to the dissolution of the Municipality of Nettuno as a mafia, at the time administered by a council of center right. Precisely for that process, which dragged itself along in the courtrooms, Antonio Gallace was definitively sentenced to serve almost 21 years in prison.


With precision 20 years, 11 months and 10 days of imprisonment for the crimes of mafia association, drug trafficking association and more. The prison order was issued by the Rome Attorney General's Office, he lost track of him and was declared a fugitive on November 25, 2020.

In the meantime, the affairs of the Gallace have continued over the years. According to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Rome, which in February carried out 65 arrests as part of the "Tritone" investigation, they would be among the families who, always between Anzio and Nettuno, would have even set up a local 'Ndrangheta, doing rich business with the drugs and infiltrating public administrations, from which they received contracts in exchange for votes for a long list of center-right candidates.