He had disappeared from the radar, but at seventy he had not retired. Indeed, he controlled drug dealing in Magliana, a suburb of Rome where more than forty years ago he had founded, with Franco Giuseppucci, Enrico De Pedis, Maurizio Abbatino and Nicolino Selis, the Banda della Magliana made famous by films and TV series.

Marcello Colafigli was arrested again today in a maxi raid by the police who placed 28 people in handcuffs. Under his orders he had a battery of young pushers who dealt in the south-west neighborhood of the capital. The investigation was coordinated by the Rome DDA.

In the TV series “Romanzo Criminale” he was the Buffalo , he died by being shot by the police in a bar.

In reality, “Il Bufalo” is alive and well. And he got arrested once again, he had managed to carve out a slice of that pie worth millions of euros that is the drug business in Rome. Despite being under semi-freedom, he passed around kilos and kilos of narcotics , maintaining relationships with exponents of the 'ndrangheta, Camorra, Foggia mafia, Albanians and South American narcos.

Colafigli is one of the founding members of the Banda della Magliana which terrorized Rome for over twenty years . Burdened with several life sentences, he was convicted among other things for the murder, as instigator, of Enrico De Pedis, and for the kidnapping and murder of Duke Massimo Grazioli Lante della Rovere (action with which the Gang would have put aside the first money to start your own criminal activity).

(Unioneonline/L)

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