Francesco Mallardo (; born April 1, 1951, in

Giugliano in Campania Giugliano in Campania , also known simply as Giugliano, is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. , it had some 124,000 inhabitants,Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

criminal and a member of the

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Camorra. He headed the

Mallardo clan The Mallardo clan is a Camorra clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples. The Mallardo clan is also one of the clans that belongs to the Secondigliano Alliance, that is considered by the authorities as th ...

operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. He was added to the list of thirty most dangerous fugitives in Italy.

Biography

Francesco and his younger brother Giuseppe Mallardo succeeded their father Domenico Mallardo, who was killed by the Maisto clan on June 24, 1976. The murder led to a vendetta that lasted until April 1987 with the killing of Antonio Maisto and two others. This wiped out the Maisto clan crime scene in Giugliano, now dominated by the Mallardos. The attack also marked the final break of relations between the Mallardos and the

Nuvoletta clan The Nuvoletta clan was a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan operating from the town of Marano di Napoli, situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Naples, southern Italy. The Nuvolettas belonged to a new style of Camorra, one that had the d ...

from Marano. To complete the triple murder, the Mallardo clan allied themselves with the

Casalesi clan The Casalesi clan is a clan within the Camorra, an Italian criminal organization, operating from Casal di Principe and San Cipriano d'Aversa in the province of Caserta between Naples and Latium. Formed by Antonio Bardellino, it is a confederatio ...

of Francesco Schiavone and

Francesco Bidognetti Francesco Bidognetti (born January 21, 1951, in Casal di Principe) is a powerful Italian Camorrista. He is the chief lieutenant of Francesco Schiavone, boss of the Casalesi clan from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta, and head of th ...

who demanded a farewell to the historic alliance between Giugliano and Marano, who had been allied in the

Nuova Famiglia The Nuova Famiglia (Italian: "New Family") was an Italian Camorra confederation created in the 1970s and headed by the most powerful Camorra bosses of the time, Carmine Alfieri, the Nuvoletta brothers, Michele Zaza, Luigi Giuliano and Antonio Ba ...

that aimed to put an end to the excessive power of

Raffaele Cutolo Raffaele Cutolo (; 4 November 1941 – 17 February 2021) was an Italian crime boss, leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo had a variety of nicknames including o Vangelo'' ("the gosp ...

Nuova Camorra Organizzata The Nuova Camorra Organizzata (Italian: New Organized Camorra) was an Italian Camorra criminal organization founded in the late 1970s by a Neapolitan Camorrista, Raffaele Cutolo, in the region of Campania. It was also known by the initials NCO. ...

(NCO) in the late 1970s and 1980s. The subsequent rise of Mallardo in both power and prominence is linked to the Licciardi and Contini clans. The three clans together formed a coalition called the

Secondigliano Alliance The Secondigliano Alliance ( Italian: Alleanza di Secondigliano) is a strategic alliance of Camorra clans in Naples, Italy and its hinterland which controls drug trafficking and the extortion racket in many areas of Naples since the 1990s. The Alli ...

, in order to gain a stranglehold in the drug trafficking and extortion rackets in Naples.Camorra, catturato Mallardo. Era evaso due volte dalla clinica
La Repubblica, August 29, 2003

Arrest

On April 14, 2000, he was arrested in a country house between Qualiano and Giugliano while attending a meeting of the so-called

. Among the 13 people arrested were Patrizio Bosti and Feliciano Mallardo. They tried to escape, but were blocked by the police.Camorra, arrestato il boss Ciccio Mallardo
La Repubblica, April 14, 2000 The boss has a heart condition and suffered a heart attack in the maximum security prison in Parma. He escaped from custody from two hospitals, one in his hometown Giugliano, and from a clinic in Pinerolo, near Turin. He was arrested again on August 29, 2003. The police, who had been on his trail, discovered the car of Mallardo on the A30 near Nola and set up a road block. Mallardo, who returned from a vacation with his family, pretended to stop but then suddenly accelerated, slightly injuring two policemen. Police then fired a few shots and hit a car tire. After a few hundred meters the car came to a standstill.

References

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