stuff my. front porch classic from housing boom boom town this is where. welcome to the seventy seven percent. this weekend on t.w. . you know first this came from an informer. you need to be careful there really mad at you. your articles have made them very angry. you have to be much more careful than usual. their total scum bags. 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 la repubblica research regarding the explosions is underway . frederica and jelly is a local reporter her beat is mafia activities. from his present with 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 who statements have helped police arrest thirty two members of the spot a klan mafia. 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 there trying. to enter a fact back to that camp you for. the time for an editorial meeting. they have been bones in austria evacuations in seven a wrists 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 are 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 now so i know. i know but listen they want to win it just looks like they're winning. some of these draw it looks like they're winning i bet they're not. call you back in a minute don't worry talk soon. 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 then you'll manage not to lose your mind as. 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. to the school i've had police protection since the twentieth of august twenty fourth teen or unison which was when i was attacked me many of these hoarded men had left me more dead than alive and lying somewhere in the countryside. chat show

moments when i spent months recovering at my parents' home you know working with my shoulder had been broken in three places and i couldn't move my arm. but actually in the night of the twenty second of august me. they also tried to set my home on fire then w n n for workers. in his articles paolo has said that many sicilians prefer to rely on the mafia than the state to solve various problems. but he my most recent investigations and packing know led to the arrest of a number of mafia bosses including an officer in the police force. which is where the famous tomatoes come for him he said you know but you know. that you need to. see. one policeman working in case there are no you didn't talk to his colleagues which would have been the obvious thing to do. similar 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 out of the boys thanks for having me back at me that i mean this is this is 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 murders. that's true exactly and luckily that didn't get you. ok it is. 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 it doesn't elicit public outrage. but journalists have to report on what they see that's their responsibility. 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 and you have to decide which side you're on it. you can guide it so yes show you that this guy. 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 courts the coastline. exploiting the region the way the mafia does is lucrative. there are legal and illegal markets from tourism to drug dealing. with. 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 the spa there was sitting on a chair to the left he blew smoke in my face and threatened me so i need subtleness collishaw and even. he made a hand gesture and told me that the spot has are in control in austria and have everyone in the palm of their hand the police the caribbean 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 moment 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 laugh 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.

yeah. i. don't know why i didn't do i don't know what are. we told the children that they're kind of being yeti were drivers the newspaper had given me as a reward. in my work. whenever i was desperate in cried i'd try and hide my tears. she ended up going to hear. that they say. well maybe if. he had it lots of people have advised us to leave austria and 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. so 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 death threats just seppi bombino president of the us promontory national park in calabria. on why are civil servants still willing to risk their lives in the start of a. book with. all of them because we can frighten the mafia with words and rules. the fortunes of a pretty pictures of 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 that a child. 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 but he made it even higher there were no voice to people who didn't have one. or i'm going to stop there let's go to my

question keep it in there talk. to west fuck him aside the where they phrase their threats is almost literary they sent me a bomb in a message that read. for you were made from dust tend to dust to show returns. if it's only one person speaking out against the mafia only one person condemning that out even if it's the president of an important national parks calling out illegal activity say then he stands alone. 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 these 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 austria. five days after the bomb explosions the police raid the homes of two leading members of the spot a clan in. the district that's been a mafia stronghold for decades. the mafia wives are livid. and you the whole thing is made up those idiot witnesses a behind it. i don't know maybe they laid the bombs themselves. that was saying nothing.

when we deserve respect. to the criminal clans frederica's reporting is to blame for the raid. by some kind of show 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 trapped that it's got nothing to lose. it's coming. that it could make any gods the most of us to see them as this came from an informer because you have the proof that. you need to be careful there 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. chuck

put it that meaning i'm having a rough time i'm afraid for my children. i have nightmares the air feels thick and look at 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 out 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 pull out 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. and out of place you can see here part of that. for. 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 sends shivers down my spine but it means i'm always looking over my shoulder to check my voice my guardian angels are there. but i'll carry on regardless that's about all the stuff that will.

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 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 and austria has been dubbed operation up a jail. the 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. charge similar to a dollar sandra was found dead in her apartment reportedly of a stroke. she and frederica were close friends. here she is my lovely friend. one of the listen simonetta was the first judge to comprehend the reach of the roman mafia she completely supported my work on a legal level and only then will do anything or will again i feel completely empty center of my mistress 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 win and they'll win i

think and she said to me you know they aren't going to win and they won't. and the well being can all go. you know i think she gave me so much encouragement and strength who knows what this means this sudden death because i want to improvise and. in myself. 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.

that you found. what writings a mayor together with a mafia boss. i'm talking about caught on one fun 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 probably that today mafia boss vodka i better go 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 a 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 made it all but you are responsible for who you talk to the same but it might then 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 it said was a disaster its message. or i don't think i have many fears i fear they could kill me. good bosses honest i think there were two mafia bosses sentenced in two separate trials. one he said

perfectly calmly that they were to rip me apart from the. bates. now and another referred to a slow death. around. not a fuck about so 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 our. audio. just mario what happened and then 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. and the car with federica because the police are calling my guy too much for. the special occasions like credit because 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 look at it yes. but it's an exciting life isn't it.

ram i decided to fight the mafia for my children sake. i've been criticized as a mother but to me it's the only way of protecting them 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 yeah i want him to learn from all of this but that was a study. with

him how to be a gun to go suckers with the highest high you know if i had known the boat would be about small i never would have gone on a trip i would not support myself and my parents in that dangerous but it's a game with a beautifully with. my one son to the other one it will be because of my i have serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live their lives i'm going to. want to know their story for my current scarified employable information for margaret's.

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