The AG2R LA Mondiale rider had enough left to mount a late attack with two kilometres to go
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Gallopin attacked from the leading group with a little over two kilometres of the 185.5km stage from Puerto Lumbreras to Pozo Alcon remaining
and the AG2R La Mondiale rider had enough in reserve to stay away
Groupama-FDJ's Molard saw his overall lead grow as Team Sky's Michal Kwiatkowski lost 25 seconds on the other general classification favourites after crashing on a dusty corner inside the final 10 kilometres of the rolling stage.
Frenchman Molard now leads by 47 seconds from Movistar's veteran Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, who finished third on the stage as world champion Peter Sagan won the sprint for second place, five seconds behind Gallopin.
Bora-Hansgrohe's Emanuel Buchmann is a further second back in third overall, with Britain's Simon Yates of Mitchelton-Scott in fourth place, 51 seconds off red.
Kwiatkowski slips to sixth, 66 seconds down as Gallopin's win and bonus seconds move him into fifth place.
"When we came on the last straight road, I had a plan that if I have a possibility I try to attack," Gallopin said. "I found a good moment - and I'm so happy.
"I looked back just before the last corner, maybe 200m, 300m to go and I saw nobody behind me. So I turned and I went full the last straight - I looked back in the final 50m and they were quite far, so I knew that I can win. So it's fantastic."
La Vuelta continues on Saturday with a fairly flat 195km stage from Linares to Almaden.
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More than 30 north African gang members have been arrested by Spain's National Police force for falsely obtaining residency permits in Malaga
Officers from border force group at the Jaén provincial headquarters have detained 32 people in Pozo Alcón
for alleged membership of a criminal organisation that facilitated illegal migration into Spain
and for fraudulently obtaining residence and work permits for the migrants after an arranged marriage
those arrested organised marriages of convenience between Moroccan and north African citizens and Spanish women
has a long criminal record for people smuggling
after officers from the provincial HQ noticed several applications for residence permits
which were suspected to have been made after marriages of convenience
The huge age difference between the couples caught the officials’ attention
The criminal organisation was based mainly in the Jaén town of Pozo Alcón and in the provincial capital
although it also operated in Cordoba and Malaga
The modus operandi used by the gang consisted of attracting Spanish citizens
the vast majority being women residing in the town of Cordoba
who were paid approximately 400 euros to register a migrant as a domestic partner in the Cordoba registry
Then the gang obtained the rest of the documents for the granting of a residence permit in Spain
for which the migrants were charged up to 5,000 euros
From the initial investigations and after an exhaustive analysis of the documentation by the officers
they verified how the Spanish citizens who granted the status of European community citizen to the applicants for residence permits in Spain
had previously been domestic partners with other north African citizens
Many of the women had previously been arrested in 2016 for similar illegal activities
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