inevitably sea levels rise by at least one meter in a century that's really frightening. why are people more concerned. starts may thirty first on t.w. . you know. this came from an informer. you need to be careful they're really mad at you. your articles have made them very angry. you have to be much more careful than usual. their total scumbags. they wouldn't hesitate to detonate a bomb under your window or use a member of your family to seek revenge yes.

there have been two bomb explosions. ostia a seaside suburb of rome. this road links austria to the rest of the city. at the daily newspaper a lot of republican research regarding the explosions is underway. federica on jelly is a local reporter heartbeat is mafia activities. from sponsored would bloom two bombs exploded one in front of the house and one. on the balcony of the mother of

the principal witness tamara in a mafia case. tamara is a young woman whose statements have helped police arrest thirty two members of the spada clan mafia. and tomorrow's partner is the nephew of a high level criminal i mean this is when a criminal is murdered then his gang which includes the nephew here automatically gets absorbed into a stronger clan with anybody in front of their train grab train traffic back to their camp you for that. time for an editorial meeting. they have been bombs in austria evacuations in seven a recess he went to where there are some new developments in the story first there's the mother who's told me all about her daughter the principal witness who was tracked down by the spot as. give it a whole page. with

a fear that this is her son calling oh hi is everything ok i'm taking care of your mother don't worry they're not humans they're beasts i remember when they threatened my daughter's life my children don't have anything to do with it either this is just how it is mostly so i know. i know but listen they want to win it just looks like they're winning. part of the straw it looks like they're winning but they're not. call you back in a minute. don't worry talks in. following the publication of her articles mafia family started making threats against federica she now lives under police protection. the secret to not giving up the fight against the mafia

is to find the strength to be patient if you can do that and you can put up with the bureaucracy of the justice system daniel managing not to lose your mind. on an issue. the location of this building is secret. it's guarded by soldiers and police officers around the clock. this is where sicilian journalist paolo the lives he's published articles naming cecelia mafia bosses reporting extensively on their business activities and shedding light on their ties to politicians. into the school i've had police protection since the twenty eighth of august twenty fourth teen years and which was when i was attacked. here these hoarded men had left me more dead than alive and lying somewhere in the countryside. chat show them

until i spent months recovering at my parents' home you know working with my shoulder have been broken in three places and i couldn't move my arm. but out in the night of the twenty second of august me. they also tried to set my home on fire then w n f was working. in his articles paolo has said that many sicilians prefer to rely on the mafia than the state to solve various problems. step by key my most recent investigation in paki no led to the arrest of a number of mafia bosses including an officer in the police force and. which is where the famous tomatoes comforted me said you know that quote it. so. one policeman working a case there didn't talk to his colleagues which would have been the obvious thing

to do. what to the local mafia boss that shouldn't be happening that's not right and this culture of organized crime is worse than the actual mafia case eleven years. after the arsenate. back on his house paolo had no choice but to leave sicily and move to rome. after repeated attempts on his life and a number of death threats he now has the highest level of police protection available. he's accompanied by five police officers whenever he leaves his home including when he travels abroad.

for security reasons we can't show the faces of some of his bodyguards. paolo has been invited on a radio show to talk about his new book. welcome to audio boys thanks for having me back to me that i mean this is this a mafia boss once said. a murder every now and then puts people's minds at ease. and you've been pegged as one of those murderers. that's true and exactly luckily they didn't get you. out of that phrase

a murder every now and then it appeared in the police recordings on the tenth of april aquino mafia plan to take me and my security detail out with a car bomb. it's also kind of like a metaphor for. because a murder now and then might go unnoticed. doesn't elicit public outrage. but journalists have to report on what they see that's their responsibility. so everybody needs to get involved get their hands dirty. we journalists have to ask questions keep researching and probing it's not enough to be a critical voice you have to decide which side you're on. you can guide it so you shake it up this. has been controlled by organized crime syndicates for decades.

geographically speaking austria is too important to be left to the states there's the airports the ports the coastline. exploiting the region the way the mafia does is lucrative. there are legal and illegal markets from tourism to drug dealing with. the question. this clan has claimed the luxury villas along the beach and forced out the original residents either by violent means or in collusion with corrupt local authorities. federico anjali first made enemies of the new tory a spot of family in two thousand and thirteen when she was investigating a piece on property and restaurant licenses. that

we tracked them down to here we came with a camera team and went to this store. here thought this is the room. queen each and all they were here among those that was sitting on a chair to the left he blew smoke in my face and threatened me. subtleness coalition. he made a hand gesture and told me that the spot us are in control in austria and have everyone in the palm of their hand the police the corrupt and yeti the judges. and he said he told me he confiscate the camera and that he'd kill me if i didn't give it up first me and then my children he turned to the other person in the room

and said you know she has three children the youngest is very pretty she has blue eyes shall we start with her so that was a really tough moment for me if not all the momentum of the more. she managed to trick them and save the footage. federico was born and raised in austria despite the threats against her she and her family continue to live here. because it was. a lawful tool nonetheless for one thing that was lucky was that my children were still very young when i was put under police protection so my husband and i were able to turn it into a game. we didn't want them to realize that people wanted their mother dead. she that i'm.

cursed. that's why i didn't do it i don't know that i. can see that i mean we told the children that there could have been yeti were drivers the newspaper had given me as a reward for. in my work. whenever i was desperate in cried i'd try and hide my tears. she ended up going to be. just as they say. well maybe if. he had it lots of people have advised us to leave austria and i live around the corner from the mafia boss. the thing is i believe that when you're fighting a war you can't leave the battlefield. the anxiety you feel breathing the same air should be mutual.

on the grounds of the villa borghese in rome paolo is shooting an exclusive interview with another high profile target of mafia deference just separate bombino president of the osce promontory national park in calabria. on why our civil servants still willing to risk their lives in the style of. their purposes but all of them because we can frighten the mafia with words and rules. of course the people in the north says that he and other civil servants are risking their lives by taking administrative action we journalists have a duty to give them a platform to stand in front of them and to reach out to them so they know they are

not alone. prophetical but also. how low lives alone and keeps a low profile. the mafia could strike at any minute. paolo reviews the interview footage in the editing room and gets to work on his report on . this. there were no voice stupid people who didn't have one. or i'm going to stop there let's go to my

question or keep it in their book. the west. where they phrase their threats is almost literary they sent me a bomb in a message that read. for you were made from dust to enter dust to show returns. if it's only one person speaking out against the mafia only one person condemning them down even if it's the president of an important national park calling out illegal activity. then he stands along. that's been the problem again and again because then you're an easy target. but if there are many journalists willing to take a stand as well to condemn those criminals and speak out against them and if people

can see with their own eyes what's going on then there is hope that we could once again live in a world free of crime syndicates. back in ostia. five days after the bomb explosions the police raid the home. as of two leading members of the spot a clan in austin will the district that's been a mafia stronghold for decades. in the movie the mafia wives are livid with. the whole thing is made up of those idiot witnesses a behind it. even though maybe they laid the bombs themselves. the most named nothing.

really deserve respect. to the criminal clans frederica's reporting is to blame for the raid. it was kind of like dogs let off the leash wounded animals no longer capable of rational thought join us they're reacting like a wild animal that knows it's trot ok it's got nothing to lose. it's come a kasi there come a comic at the most of us the film is this came from an informer you have therefore there. you need to be careful they're really mad at you just your articles have made them very angry. you have to be much more careful than usual. their total scumbags they wouldn't hesitate to detonate a bomb under your window or use a member of your family to seek revenge. yes.

shock would have a meaning i'm having a rough time i'm afraid for my children. i have nightmares the air feels thick you know that they've completely lost their minds so i need to be extra careful and i need to find out what they would do if they decide to strike. it up that i'm just one private citizen against the whole mafia. despite the numerous attempts on his life paolo still visit sicily regularly. this time he's on his way to pullout so our three are no seventy kilometers from palermo.

the entire town council had to step down when its ties to the mafia came to light. up. and you can see here. you know. travelling to sicily is always a major security undertaking. i recently received another death threat. that they referred to a car bomb and even mentioned the place where it's supposed to happen. but i know that i have to keep doing my job. and that's what i'm doing. it's an extreme fear. it's a sense shivers down my spine but it means i'm always looking over my shoulder to check my voice my guardian angels are there. you know i got here and but i'll carry on regardless of out on the stump to.

paolo's appearance here as a guest of honor is supposed to mark the return of a legitimate administration. but who's on which side. how low can never be sure. how low thanks palermo province's head of the carbon yeti the carbon yeti our italy's national police force. everything it thinks it is the security detail is

great let the men are excellent. you please pass that on. that's good to hear and i will pass that on. i know your value. we can make it together. the police campaign against the mafia in austria has been dubbed operation up a jail. a week after the explosions in a nighttime sweep police seized property gas stations gambling bars and gyms belonging to the spot a clan and their accomplices assets worth some nineteen million euros. but that doesn't mean federica can relax. the death of

a key figure in the fight against rome's mafia families has shaken her deeply. judge simone at a dollar sandra was found dead in her apartment reportedly of a stroke. she and federico were close friends. who are here she is my lovely friend. when i thought of this and simonetta was the first judge to comprehend the reach of the roman mafia she completely supported my work on a legal level yet. i feel completely empty. i miss her so much and i mean i've gone over all the messages we've sent each other the

moments when i wept and said to her they'll wind they'll win and she said to me no they aren't going to win they won't. be. being. you know i think she did me so much encouragement and strength who knows what this means this sudden death. and also. it wasn't what will i do without her. that's what it takes so much staying power there's no end in sight i don't know if i should give up or carry on.

cause that's your final. boss what brings a mayor together with a mafia boss. i'm talking about court i don't want fun to mayor of one of the most beautiful places in the world not the cradle of sicilian baroque. and a criminal who's been sentenced for mafia crimes and more it probably got any more today mafia boss val can i bear a girl who owns a number of businesses in the town was released by the police. paolo posts daily updates on the website last speech exposing the business people and politicians who are in cahoots with the sicilian mafia. a mafia in this part of sicily politicians and mafiosi were used to being criticized and they were able to do their deals in plain sight because they knew that no one would write about it

they're. talking to one another isn't a crime obviously and there's nothing illegal about the mayor simply talking to a mafia boss yourselves i mean you know what you are responsible for who you talk to the same people out there i've always said that in a problematic region such as sicily. feels he shouldn't be trusted and you can't go doing business with them if the public sees their own mayor talking to a mafia boss. and all the disastrous message. they're asked. or they don't have many fears i fear they could kill me. good bosses honest i think there were two mafia bosses sentenced in two separate trials. mad about that one said perfectly calmly that they were really me

a part of the updates. now and another referred to a slow death. but we're out. of a fucked up mess i'm scared of not having done enough. voting for you of not having had enough time to tell the public what's happening. and ultimately i fear that my fellow italians don't understand that their silence and indifference are the weapons the mafia uses to defeat us. a fresh threat was issued yesterday on frederica's birthday this time the target was a restaurant owner who's already been in the mafia's crosshairs once before because of his friendship with her. the oh my do you know just mario what happened was a man with a screwdriver came in. mario tells frederica

a man wearing his hood up and brandishing a screwdriver stood outside his restaurant yesterday and yelled i'll kill you all. then he ran away. mario only realized later that his tires and the tires of his guests had been slit open. hence the car with federica because the police are calling my bike too much for. special occasions like frederica's birthday the children's birthdays are mine we always go to his restaurant. so it's pretty clear why he was threatened. we're. going to get it yet. but it's an exciting life isn't it. i.

didn't run i decided to fight the mafia for my children sake. i been criticised as a mother but to me it's the only way of protecting them but it is the only way i know using legal means to put a stop to illegal activities with. a kid there might be things that they're afraid of later exams unemployment's failed love affairs but i don't want them to be afraid of the mafia. i want to learn from all of this study.

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