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THE PROFILE
The Death of Carmine Gallo, “Supercop” with Two Lives and Many 'Ndrangheta Secrets
Drugs and dinner remains seized by the Milan Prosecutor's Office
Published: 11/03/2025 – 11:33

Paraphrasing one of the most famous “attacks” of a journalistic piece, that of Tommaso Besozzi for the discovery of the body of the bandit Giuliano in 1950, one thing is certain: last March 8th, Carmine Gallo died in his bed in his Milanese home at the age of 67. And he probably took with him the secrets of at least two lives. Died of a heart attack? Probably, but you can’t leave any suspicions. So not only was an autopsy ordered, but the drugs that the super policeman took with his last meals were also under observation, and toxicological tests were also ordered to verify that it wasn’t a suicide.
The secrets of his first life as a super policeman were born in Milan, a metropolis that had seen him as the best ‘ndrangheta investigator capable of staying in those grey areas that allow you to get to where procedures and the code with their rules of engagement don’t allow you to go “beyond”. And then the other secrets, even darker, those that saw "the doctor", as everyone in the environment called him, confined to house arrest in the house where he died for being one of the central linchpins of the investigation into the Equalize dossiers, the penultimate story from La Notte della Repubblica in which the super cop of Neapolitan origin would have been able to put the Viminale archives into use together with his direct knowledge of dirty sources for private services in favor of large companies and excellent statesmen.
Carmine Gallo was an athlete, he ran the marathon, and he died. In the era of conspiracy theories and post-truth, the magistrates have nevertheless deemed it necessary to open a file to dispel, given the very obscure contexts, any hypothesis of a violent death. From a servant of the State to investigated for unauthorized access to computer systems and criminal association of a Milanese commercial Spectre in which he had decided to be part, perhaps for revenge, perhaps because, if you are a cop on the inside, you don't want to walk away from your job even as a pensioner. As CEO of Equalize in via Pattari in Milan, “the doctor” had made a big mistake. He thought he was still an undercover police officer and had allowed himself to go and meet a big shot of Lombard crime just a few meters from his office. For the prosecutors, it was the “bingo they were looking for”. In the judicial prose of the Milanese prosecutors, the glories of the past had had no value, for them Gallo was “a sprawling and unscrupulous person”. A version contested by colleagues and even by some reporters who had followed his exploits in the long years of fighting the 'ndrangheta,but not only 'ndrine because Carmine Gallo had also solved other difficult issues such as the Gucci murder and the capture in Padua of the killer Profeta.
When very little was known about the 'ndrangheta in the shadow of the Madonnina and journalists in the North still confused the Sila with the Aspromonte, Carmine Gallo had been the key man in allowing the resolution of the complex kidnapping in Pavia of Cesare Casella . The mother of the young Lombard made history by going to Locride to bring public protest to the square, causing a media earthquake that embarrassed the State. Casella had to be freed and the hot potato was entrusted to Gallo. The “doctor” had also been decisive in solving another kidnapping of Calabrians in the North, that of Alessandra Sgarella which took place in the San Siro area of ??Milan in 1997. That on that occasion there had been a negotiation between the State and the 'ndrangheta is also written in the sentence where it is written «in the absolute absence of leads, the investigators began to look for every possible pretext», activating «all possible confidential sources».

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It was Gallo's job to look for those sources. When he was called to testify at the trial to explain the contacts he had made with one of the most authoritative bosses of the Barbaro family of Platì, he reported that he had informed the competent magistrate of every event. He used to repeat to the reporters who were still investigating those distant events: "I have never done anything I have done on my own initiative". And some reporters in the aftermath of the "doctor's" death wrote that in the apartment where he died on March 8, in the 1990s, Barbaro emissaries had shown up "to threaten him and demand those sentence reductions promised by the State to the 'ndrangheta of Platì to free the businesswoman Alessandra Sgarella ", as Davide Milosa wrote in the Fatto Quotidiano.
Carmine Gallo had many unmistakable merits in his career as a policeman. We owe to him the collaboration with the justice system of Saverio Morabito, personally managed by him and which made known the most hidden intricacies of the Lombard 'ndrine defeated by the North-South investigation and also become an epic film success in "The Unforgiven".
Gallo had also been the contact for the German investigators in the aftermath of the Duisburg massacre. Also on that occasion, thanks to his confidential sources, "the doctor" had been able, three months after the massacre in Germany, to have a high police officer produce a confidential report from the Viminale with the names and instigators of the massacre. There are also those who swear that Gallo, a few hours after the bloody shooting, left at night for Calabria with a prisoner to have him meet his father and prevent the 'ndrangheta war from spilling over to the entire continent.

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Only the mysteries remain. As our colleague Giorgio Curcio has well recalled , Gallo had remained in possession of an incredible archive on the 'ndrangheta with the genealogical tree of each 'ndrina and the compositions of the Santa, an organism that in Calabria brings together very secretive mafiosi and freemasons in super-secret lodges. Under house arrest, Carmine Gallo was dedicating himself to writing a book of memoirs on the many secrets of his two lives. An incomplete book that in any case should have been acquired by the magistrates, who gave the order to x-ray his computer.
His reports as an under investigation also remain. Carmine Gallo had decided to collaborate with the investigators. He had spoken about Eni in a report that was classified, at the request of the state company. Perhaps he had also spoken about the role of the services he had come across in his new anomalous job. The Equalize investigation now lies between the darkness and the light of what Carmine Gallo knew about his clients and his co-defendants. Perhaps he was convinced that with his depositions he could redeem his image and his story. Perhaps. The only thing that is certain is that Carmine Gallo, “the doctor”, died in his bed. As to how, we must wait for the results of the scientific tests.
Many secrets remain, and without him alive they will hardly be revealed. ( redazione@corrierecal.it )