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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 the rest of locals a long delayed these tests of how toxic effects. for years the authorities have refuted those claims reporter emma alberici went to investigate.

it. because does morale day is a magnet is for the rich and famous 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.

the saudis plays host to some of the world's most elaborate warga is 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 making one and a half $1000000.00 a day renting out the space to foreign forces and weapons manufacturers. down south the entire lotta the beaches are just as stunning but they mostly inaccessible. the reka family has been fishing in these waters for generations playing with the weight arabs are on their bare bottom was the more

i guess i remember the marriage the more the manga give what the man gets. western brands of gulf war they're rather rare and what happens if you do. everyone on the top of the mill or whatever. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the city around sardinia off limits. around their government and i'm really proud of her work out of one annoy our profession where you regret your ability for nowhere and your name in 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 d.-day eventually get into the tire a lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and we were the no he was told they would be strictly no feeling allowed. if you mention imagining. that there was you going to find them out or. if i don't know it mean for. me. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed call 1200 french

maid. arrived on. and over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course in egypt to me was the regime you know. to love analysts here was this. idea the year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carries 3 grams of radioactive thore. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of lung and pancreatic cancer. in the fall but since you saw there is a lot of reason most of the good for that didn't go nice she was or she was spotted that. it was systematic. the main concern 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 droga. as a young man he worked at the firing range. he died of lung cancer but he wasn't a smoker. many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. here share them with him most of them already in their church or their you know they haven't cheated a lot of the states you know but more in the show their limit their jobs and. no more you don't see it i will get a lot of these it has been decided to intervene to do our share not all that but more i want to read your bible julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for this suffering as a virtue of the. modern almost. never found that the sort of the book without the

use of the a lot on your mother to love what i. but 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 i'm an adult the law will still be a little our listeners'. not just. a vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service in thailand in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shills with his bare hands. a few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. his parents blind the armed

forces whenever they fuck with or throw in no matter what i meant. about the truth. of a general of the. course and more money. with the. more. difficult. this is the rubbish john carlos says 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 get it analyze francesco's liver tissue the and 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 that made the colleague who were 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. authority if you got the

only real little bit you. meant it very. much is so. so that it knew. this fear of. who. ringback 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 flying. to see the children to see more to agree that he quit because of food. or disorder. but much of the 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 of much tragedy. dr gassy has become an advocate for some of the people of queerer. 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. in the back of my. skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. one in 4 of the children born in the same year is marine ground 0 had some kind of deformity. committing another. and spoken into that part of. the data set up on that about your knowledge of.

john pierre osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. and his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. send them to follow an offer that each of their cause and one trillion of a. may pully going to support there were further queer look. but come on chad on this one controller. 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 told to cite about birth defects

they told to explain it away with the shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of embrace each other the 1st to be leader. of the seas general maltin a former head of the queer a base he's cool françois' t.v. delivery that came a siege. by a passing by a stray bullet you that image in the world of prosecutors and other families there's no evidence to support that klein. the children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eighty's when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely despise dolls' and queerer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters deep and 40 meters wide.

and it might. not settle your families it goddammit commoner already know. decades dust from explode. 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 nearly 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. at the same time over in florence military pilot do many kind of chiro 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. star mope around. the internet so that it's not going to know if we're going to be perfect or intervene you're getting better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we don't see. this to remain. on saturday no not. yet immune to the minute. you have a little bit if you will be deja. 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 recombine i was flown in by the ministry of defense to do some soil tests in front of

a swarm of local media. are going to convince your out. of the photographs. the debugger the movie and all the running for the local monitor yeah there's a little francesco riccobono i didn't find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible. and so thory i'm defense declared the firing range clear. of the sunni had never run anonymous but have a better. market value on the people even to the lesser of the year so really going into. one of the line at the q did you grow it in. there looking through the city with its a disgrace and a. market 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 line and severity of which scientists and public health experts had never seen before. they don't. know the. mother or your mom they don't kick. they. then. they don't know better when their request the money for them or. believe. their georgia mehlis corrosion report for the district health or farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range. from arguably the team of

scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers that get placed where a new body will not be in sort of more walk. we born or. legal . we never know if it. was your only bombarded them in the little bit about. the quest for the bear. or not but the bill. was the only main the. main. b. i want to look at will be informative a little. in more. generalising. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments died in the 20 years up to 2010.

binds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear physicist vandross seanie live some of that research. this will. analyse. but. in the car or. in. your. view. those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore in the nearby towns had all lived close to the firing range. or nor are the shore dogs in quite that authority or by george. the opposition there.

in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who dumped the salt his thing to the military. why hadn't research of francesco rico bono found any ranee and all the much more dangerous story i'm in the soil and we were. while he was questioned up still is 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 routes out of his record and he was angry with the military this age gone with don't go 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 that they're on the facets that will beat the roy and the. ball. in so many icing. barack with every thought and 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 will

a businesswoman and it really really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g. and john piero's gunnies committee made a bold finding and of course fundamental for them on the list is the incessant be on the jury the blue mess so the cozily. lecture 30 suppose it's on the lower than informally don't they live but gee i didn't shout the name in it that a 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 cheap. crucially for eon when inhaled or ingested was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. in the scan a report was dismissed by the italian defense force. and they refer

to say the york. ok and the letter a letter on the. the commission that your president finally meant 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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