Francesco Mallardo
Francesco Mallardo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 April 1951 Giugliano in Campania, Italy |
| Died | 29 May 2025 (aged 74) Parma, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Other names | "Ciccio 'e Calantonio" |
| Occupation(s) | Head of the Mallardo clan and one of the founders of the Secondigliano Alliance |
| Criminal status | Deceased (imprisoned from 2003) |
| Allegiance | Mallardo clan/Camorra |
Francesco Mallardo (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko malˈlardo]; 1 April 1951 – 29 May 2025), also known as Ciccio 'e Carlantonio, was an Italian criminal[1] and a member of the Neapolitan Camorra. He headed the Mallardo clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples. He was added to the list of thirty most dangerous fugitives in Italy.
Biography
[edit]Francesco and his younger brother Giuseppe Mallardo succeeded their father Domenico Mallardo, who had been killed by the Maisto clan on 24 June 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 from Marano. To complete the triple murder, the Mallardo clan allied themselves with the Casalesi clan of Francesco Schiavone and Francesco Bidognetti who demanded a farewell to the historic alliance between Giugliano and Marano, who had been allied in the Nuova Famiglia that aimed to put an end to the excessive power of Raffaele Cutolo's Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO) in the late 1970s and 1980s.[2]
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, in order to gain a stranglehold in the drug trafficking and extortion rackets in Naples.[3]
Arrest
[edit]On 14 April 2000, he was arrested in a country house between Qualiano and Giugliano while attending a meeting of the so-called Secondigliano Alliance. Among the 13 people arrested were Patrizio Bosti and Feliciano Mallardo. They tried to escape but were blocked by the police.[4]
Francesco Mallardo had 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 29 August 2003. The police, who had been on his trail, discovered Mallardo's car on the A30 near Nola and set up a road block. Mallardo, who was returning 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 metres the car came to a standstill.[3]
Death
[edit]Mallardo died at the age of 74 in palliative care of a terminal illness while serving a 30-year prison sentence on 29 May 2025.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Carabinieri raid new Camorra drug-selling faction". www.italianinsider.it. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Triplice omicidio: chiesto l'ergastolo per Mallardo; Ieri la richiesta del pubblico ministero, per l'assassinio di Antonio Maisto, Pietro Granata e Raffaele Smarrazzo" [Triple murder: life imprisonment requested for Mallardo; Requested yesterday by the public prosecutor for the murder of Antonio Maisto, Pietro Granata and Raffaele Smarrazzo]. InterNapoli (in Italian). 10 March 2010. Archived from the original on 8 January 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ a b (in Italian) Camorra, catturato Mallardo. Era evaso due volte dalla clinica, La Repubblica, 29 August 22003
- ^ (in Italian) Camorra, arrestato il boss Ciccio Mallardo, La Repubblica, 14 April 2000
- ^ È morto Francesco Mallardo, il superboss di camorra era ai domiciliari in clinica (in Italian)