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best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major cut to make this work the locals in these tests of the talk back held for years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter emma alberici went to investigate.

it. because does morale day is a magnet for the rich and famous you need hosts the most beautiful beaches in europe. it's not hard to see what draws people to this place. former prime minister silvio berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. but i've come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses in the blocks of life on this glorious island for decades. the wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. to study plays host to some of the world's most elaborate wargamers like this one in 2015. trident junction it was one of nato's biggest

exercises. dozens of countries were involved to play the military exclusion zones cover more than a 3rd of sardinians land sea and air play rome is reported to be nike one and a half $1000000.00 a day renting out this space to foreign forces and weapons manufacturers. down south the entire lotta the beaches are just a stunning but they mostly inaccessible. the reka family have been fishing in these waters for generations playing with the weight arabs are on their bare back bottom was a lot more of it yes i remember them in the hold the manga give one of the main guys. in the western brands of gulf war there are rare what happens if you do.

every wal-mart up someone's arm or lower their value. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the sea around sardinia off limits. around their government on a minute out of pre-war marijuana annoy them are you with your on the left are nowhere near members of the military are they watching us. most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. they're the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. and if you go. to them in the you know there. are a purely has made it his life's mission to bust open this wall of silence. he was

once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldn't get access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow purely dida eventually get into the tire lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and you want to know he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. if you miss one imagining. that there are going to find a man or. if i don't know what it mean for the afghan official me. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed clear fouls and 200 french made missiles arrived on the yacht. and over the 20 years to 2003

some were fired a town larger question you need to mean there's a misdemeanor. similar to love in law as he was a school roommate the idea of the year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carries 3 grams of radioactive phoria. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of lung and pancreatic cancer. chemical bazza you saw that he thought it was the most watched of the country that did the news she was sure she was spotted at. the mine concerned for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isn't about damage to the land or restricted axes. they're worried the bomb residue might be killing mail. today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens

59 year old mario drogo. as a young man he worked at the firing range. he died of lung cancer but he wasn't a smoker and. many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. here share to them what he can most of them already in the church i don't know about yet and actually took a lot of stage. but i'm off to the show there limato job on it. no more you don't see it i will get a lot of these it's been decided to intervene to do our share not all that but more from want to measure julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for this suffering so searching that. the modern almost. never found the focus of the book the number of the usually a lot on your mother to love what i. when that job and it was that it. the italian

military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. of bondi of pierce and her husband john carroll have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years but a little dilute the birthday it will still be a little are. just. a vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service in thailand it in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up old shields with his bare hands. a few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. his parents blame the armed forces when i say fuck without throw in no matter what i meant there are many.

about the truth. of sort of a general of the mallow. because i'm normally. with the poor people. for example. this is the rubbish john carlos is built up in his son's liver. there particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. biomedical engineer anthony a to getit analyze francesco's liver tissue. she found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. tungsten and titanium. there's no metals industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from

a big explosion icicle of. the cakes amid the caller who are looking. for that for them in. the science of nano particles is still new but the world health organization says early signs show that fine material may be harmful to public health. the w.h.o. is encouraging further research. dr gaddy has consulted to 4 parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian defense force it was that if you know said the. that it printed. them in a corner. and they're shipped by. authority if you've got the only real it wouldn't be you. very. much is so. so that is.

you know in. this field of. who. they are. it's a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. this is the scene of tragic health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. for many here life still slow and traditional. but it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. zarin fly to the sea battle each

other by the sea board the we've got to quit because the food. much about this will be cut but i want to believe that the query. we're at is the biggest military test site in europe. it's used by nice countries as well as israel. those living nearby have known much tragedy. doc to guess he has become an advocate for some of the people of quiero. maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. the baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. she was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldn't move or speak i think that's. part. of my.

skull a plan a symmetry is a sad testament. one in 4 of the children born in the same year as maria ground 0 had some kind of deformity. committed among. the street. and spoken into the heart of. the banker said and that is about your knowledge of. john pirro skaar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs

of defense. send them to follow him or for that achieve their cause and once again the 4th of. may pully going to support they were further queer looking. but can shed initial. we've made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but we've been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way it's a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they're told to say about birth defects they're told to explain it away with a shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of

inbreeding. the 1st of the leaders to go. in this is general fabio maltin a former head of the queer a base he's caught on swiss t.v. delivery that came a siege. by a passing by israel will leave the diligence in the world of profitable given a lot of the news there's no evidence to support that climb. the children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eighty's when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely despised dolls and queer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters. and 40 meters wide. it might. not. it goddammit coleman are already in

a. decade's dust from explosions and tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. exactly what was in them no one knows. in the early 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. at the same time over in florence military pilot jim any kind of hero was raising his concerns. he'd seen a high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. program. we did it for

the good it's an internet so that it's not going to naturally be performance of in your book you better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we don't see . these 3 main. war nobody going to be no not that or you're immune to the may not respect the. group if you will be jack. the italian military felt the pressure. depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. it's used to help missiles penetrate. at queerer scientist francesco recover bono was for. by the ministry of defense to do some soiled taste in front of a swarm of local media. also more of us are going to convince you are living in the phony world of. the debugger movie in

a very long run for your local monitor. is a little francesco riccobono i didn't find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible presence of thore i'm defense declared the firing range clear. to the sunni had never run in the man but at the battle. for you are not equal even to the lesser of the year so nobody going to miss you not one the start of the line i took you did you grow it in a. monkey there look you know i was doing that he said with it's a disgrace and i. work for it. then in 2010 events took a shocking turn. the photos you're about to see are disturbing. a land born with one. others with deformities the likes and severity of which scientists and public health experts had never seen before.

why we spoke with all about doric. they don't. want to know the worst that mother got better your mom the kick. the and then. then. it along. the my former. believe. the georgia malice corrosion report for the district healthful farsi assisting the risks posed by the bombing range. from markedly the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers but if we were in new police on the brain sort of more. we bomb more.

of them into a little bit about. the west or the bed. but it. was the only main. main. cattle being formatted. in more. generalising. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments who died in the 20 years up to 2010. binds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear

physicist vandross seanie lead some of that research. this will go. to analyse. and or in the car for. the. your. view there those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore in the nearby had all lived close to the firing range. or your obvious short dog in that it guard your my jaw. the opposition there. in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who dumped the soil to sting to the military. why

hadn't research of francesco rico bono found any ranee of all the much more dangerous story i'm in the soil and we were. while he was questioned up steve's outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. as he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. he'd been interrogated for leaving thore and out of his record and he was angry with the military this age going with them because the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if you're honest you say to me make sure to include it because it's important to. francesco rekha bono's university received a $2400000.00 government grant to carry out its work. he was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in

a cover up. morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. course like then the facets that will beat the roy and the. ball. in so many things i thought. every thought being. right former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians. one of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in brit school another is paolo ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free little businesswoman and it really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g.

and john piero's garner his committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for them on the list is the incessant biana during the blue mess so the cozily. lecture 30 suppose it's on the loo then in full really don't they live but ga didn't shut than a minute that it quest will not get the media. for the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of 2. crucially for eon when in high old or in just it was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. the scanner report was dismissed by the italian defense force. and they refer to. the letter a letter on the. the larkham. for an element that

says that the script elevated that. but after all that work by the commission a new law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. for decades sardinia has held its secrets close. it's been locked in an uncomfortable embrace with the world's military. in a country mired in debt defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. after all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope that the truth might finally see the light of day.

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