Baby Gang, Lecco investigating judge confirms prison: "International criminal network and social networks"

He is "inserted into a larger and international criminal network, capable" in the past "of having him land in Iraq" to "fire bazookas and other weapons of war". He has developed "a dangerousness that characterizes his artistic and personal figure" and "brags" about it on social media. He then manages to "influence" a "wide circle of people, willing to do everything" to "support and protect him", so much so that they would "fight to the death" for him.

It is with these words that the Lecco investigating judge Gianluca Piantadosi describes Zaccaria Mouhib, i.e. the 25-year-old trapper with millions of Baby Gang followers, in the order with which he confirmed the precautionary custody in prison for the young man and rejected the defense's request to send him to house arrest in a therapeutic community with an electronic bracelet. Baby Gang, in fact, with several legal problems behind him, was arrested again on March 17 in an investigation by the Lecco Prosecutor's Office for a series of charges of possession of weapons and other crimes, including mistreatment of his girlfriend.

The judge's words in the order in which he writes that the singer is part of "large-scale criminal networks", is violent and "completely unreliable", are very harsh. The considerations of the defense are opposing, with the lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, who has already appealed against the decision to the Milan Review. In the investigating judge's provision, the defense explains, "no component of the alleged criminal network that would have brought the trapper to Iraq in 2025 is identified. Mouhib, notes the defender, "had gone to Iraq to make a music video, as part of that artistic journey which, in that phase of his life, represented an absorbing interest for him, to the point of taking on almost obsessive connotations". To support the request for house arrest in the community, the defender points out that the 25-year-old has a "double diagnosis" of "psychiatric disorder" and "drug abuse".