when she was young fatima came into conflict with the law. here myself included i felt i was a disappointment to my family because they hadn't raised me that way. she fell in with baby gangs teens who fought threatened and stole. not only remembrance although due to a lot of them i never thought i'd find myself in such a situation that i was capable of things like that i thought it was a bad time one i've left behind me but what are you today i have better things to do. and i'm happy about that and the locals and book and round. felicia goes with.

the streets around the port of genoa are frequented by sailors prostitutes migrants and petty crooks. they're also home to leave era the n.t. mafia organization is holding an activity day in front of its offices which once belonged to a mobster. lee barrett helps young offenders escape from a life of crime before they're recruited by the mafia. use like 18 year old fatima she ran away from home at 15 and joined what italians call a baby gang. at all times i did you know i was roaming around milan's sundown nanto district with my gang but the policeman in civilian clothes saw a stealing a cell phone everyone else took off but it's up to me but again i was the only one left. there's a fair fight all the police arrested me and put me in their car. so i think i was standing at the police station they questioned me but i said nothing. i think that

. and because i didn't tell them the names of. all of the culprits all of the blame fell on me. turn of fortune we're going to put a saw and a. quarter fighting out that's what professor to me. was convicted of robbery though she says she's never robbed anyone instead of doing time in juvenile detention she was sentenced to spend 17 months at a home for troubled youths 5 without permission to go out on her own. human children but simply that if someone didn't join them but i felt i was a disappointment to my family because they hadn't raised me to be that way. but my parents also supported me during that difficult time i was a clean never made me feel like a disgrace they always said keep moving forward and fight it if you can do it by of on the law back in time to the fights and i simplify. but the biggest help was

a condition of her parole doing an internship at libero a social worker catarina supervisor. was sent to us by her parole officer. she did her research allies ation program here with us she was obliged to. lay a plus up a class c. but after a few months she founded less of an obligation and more of a pleasure to come here. and she participated actively. that she thought it through that means that. there is a nationwide network of 1600 associations groups and schools together they fight against corruption in the mafia and for social justice. all across italy they conduct protests and hold summer camps and educational campaigns about the mafia and their crimes like they're doing here today. but if you don't want to incite far too much as telling local pathfinders about the assassinations of anti mafia judges

giovanni falcone. and paolo borsellino in 1902. the 1st of the you know was visiting his mother at her home the mafia knew that he always visited her on the same day at the same time so they placed a bomb outside her house when he came home they blew him up. then more and more. the children express their thoughts about what fatima has told them through pictures. but even this shows the knife next to it's written think before you stab. it once the drawings done it's time for the next activity. so now the others have

already left. her property and a friend are on their way to a shop that the italian state confiscated from a mafia boss. this activity was capturing his idea. you're a great big guy we need someone like you. more than a 100 shops like this once belonged to a local mafia those old who used them as a front for drug dealing and prostitution. they were then confiscated by the state and handed over to organizations like the vieira. through its initiatives lee better aims to show the change is possible but on. the back to the day is done but fatima's work is far from over the next day she's headed to one of his reso szell ization camps to act as a counselor for the 1st time. fatima for other young people and the supervisors from leave where i meet a general airport fatima is the only girl. she's

a bit nervous and hopes she'll be able to perform her duties. will. these youths have all come into conflict with the law and are on probation giacomo and john luigi are from milan filippo and kevin are from genoa but now they're all headed to marsala a town in sicily. fatima is to function as a kind of mediator between the educators from libya and the young offenders with whom she shares a similar history. the campus held near marsala right by the sea at the lake and the valley. it's a club devoted to promoting an interest in sailing water sports and the protection of marine life among children and youths in particular. the group from leave their us 7 young people from genoa milan and marsala and several councillors will spend the next 6 days together here. and it's time to get

acquainted salvatore in who he is one of the camp's directors and lee bettors co-founders as well as a social worker and activist. he and the other supervisors chose the participants. they're all youths required to take part in lead batteries programs during their parole period. the. young lady is 19 years old and a convicted robber. jacko who's 16 was also convicted of robbery. with a single. filippo is 19 and was convicted of drug dealing. you know the camp is a reward for these youths it's recognition of their good behavior and shows them they're on the right path here they'll meet former mafia members who found the courage to leave. their go sailing and windsurfing positive group experiences

which should leave them with a newfound sense of success. jen the really and giacomo told us their stories on the very 1st afternoon where they began resorting to illegal ways to get money either alone in pairs or as part of baby gangs which other teens. a lot of the little i generally just spent the money he got from mugging people on the street and brand name clothes fashion is his weakness. john more especially the level we often had a knife with us but not a big one that he could still people were afraid of us of the way we acted and the way we talked the job i spoke in my sicilian dialect and my buddy and his team is in dialect. until delicately she. walked down the turn luigi shows us a surveillance video released by the police of

a baby gang robbing other kids at an arcade john luigi was there but isn't in the video but he kept on playing in the next room this kind of thing wasn't his style. well. the guy with the white t. shirt took the 1st cell phone away. searched the kids' stuff and stole it without them knowing it. he opened the backpack without anyone noticing he took the phone out. then he on the other coalition took it and left. me back to. where i started robbing so i'd have some money. in this he always had financial problems at home so i never asked my mother for money so when i got older i found my own way to get cash. we need the. i kept some of it and gave part

of it to my mother without telling her where i got it from but with it in order for children one of them object to do nothing to. the other she never asked where the money came from on them like you know she never asked. though she must have known something was up in that they're going to be in the evenings when she came home she'd find on followed by put their containing 300 euros or more and then i'm going to go for nickels that is when i committed a robbery i never came home in a good mood across the continent and i was never happy about it because sign knew what i'd done wasn't going to myself it was more a matter of necessity because you just don't you know that and i love the father's love and i had nothing to do with my mother and my father too always said go find yourself a job. you will i wanted to work but i had no idea how to find a job i mean i told myself walking around with empty pockets is no good you need

money. so. i thought if you were in the same situation as before would you do it again. i don't know my living conditions haven't improved much sort of you get to them to the consumer culture but as my dad always said freedom is everything. you. don't know cause or care for not enough to know that given to the other so to the rest can stop you in your tracks once it was only when your freedoms taken away do you realize how important it is that it's what you know just being able to go out on your own or have a beer with friends but all things like that could all go in the end if you're locked up you can't do them without it. the next morning they start windsurfing with a little help from the professionals at the leg i never really thought you might has never stood on windsurf board before. well a lot of people keep calm cross your arms and look ahead.

ok let it down let it down. because giacomo also seems a bit unsure of himself. this may look like an exclusive summer camps that many young people would love to attend but there's a clever strategy behind lead better campaign. same issues if you do just that these kids feel privileged to have received this opportunity to show their sport they learn respect for rules and discipline it will show up if they don't respect the rules and are careless they won't have any fun that should be enough shouldn't you just get to the end because the water sports are outdoor activities they also learn respect for the environment for nature and how to protect it you know you can watch on which team up there we speak to them going to get enough food and the food . so despite the fact that she can't swim and. fatima is bravely standing on the

board at least for a while. i know that it's an uphill fight that we did it we were happy we had a little. more jumping. with joy after the windsurfing they're put to work. now. one of the chores at camp is to clean up the trash that others have left behind. taking care of others well being is also a political activity but if you're contributing to the common good. today for our environment isn't just the physical things around us the sea and nature it's the people to me. when my fellow beings are doing badly and so my and when they're doing well i feel better to. get involved take care and care for others working for the community is

a major blow against the mafia. pick up a bottle of. some a story in glee is addressing a widespread problem in italy the absence of community spirit a lack of interest in the common good and sheer helped the mafia flourish in italian society. that evening filippo tells how he got into drug dealing where did he get the drugs he later sold. for the office and overcome. you can thought from the mafia they have the contacts to the folks to go to. the mafiosi and their families are at the top of the pyramid little guy needs and it was because if they organized the trade and divvy up the work amongst many other people who then split it up even more to show you that that goes on all the way down the pyramid and i was right at the bottom if you were going to

do the photo you only and i had to pay them without getting anything in return so you out of the computer. at 14 he started hanging around with the wrong crowd he began smoking a joint or 2 then moved on to harder drugs but all of you know i did a lot didn't you know for me it was about the adrenaline rush that's why i took drugs but i wanted that feeling wanted to feel good every day i wanted to live for the day to enjoy it and organize money to do that we're going to fight me we saw you get a. lot of the before total by the next day the group enters deeper. waters it's time for their sailing lessons. they learned where starboard inport are and most importantly how to stay on course keep your hand on the rudder and your goal in sight non-swimmer even dares to set off without her life jacket on. to. freedom.

freedom which i had that to to do on my own when they lock me away. all of it all they are good for. my mug people and so forth foams and their money gold clothes shoes. generally gee had to answer in court for 7 robberies the charges were later dropped for 2 he committed as a minor. sum up the judge gave me one year on probation i've come through the probation period well i'm still clean so they let me off for the crimes i committed as a minor then i was tried as an adult for the other ones they took into account whether i'd found work done volunteer work whether i'd stay clean during my probation period. whether you can apply sunscreen properly.

even though i've been at least they see that i'm doing my best they're not throwing me in jail giving me another chance. to get it done a lot for me thought. a lot of it i never robbed anybody that's in it i don't like it that someone works hard to earn money and then you come and you just take it all away from him. but it became it was a that's just wrong really. yes but i do think that it's. like taking the things. that i took them and ran off i like that i was too much in my own head just. you know what i said i can be your friends but also someone who tells you enough cut it out we're here to do something different. for the cause of the heart of the. gradually fatima is growing into her role here.

at dinnertime everyone's tired it's been a challenging day but tomorrow promises to be the most exciting one yet. the young people visit to separate human was a civil trial no a cause a no stress stronghold. giuseppi is a close relative of this is cillian mafias box of all buses mateo messina. one of italy's most wanted criminals he's thought to be responsible for more than 50 murders. you know has been in hiding for close to 3 decades for many he's a legend and a folk hero. for years does that base father had to support his cousin donato with

money and received a long jail sentence for acting as an accessory to the mafia. he's now dead but while in jail he decided to cooperate with the authorities that led to the arrests of new. his family members including his own brother. but in sicily those who break their silence and betray mafia members are shunned and live dangerously. was limited. to what their threats don't frighten me do you know why that's it that's only a few months back a couple of little mafiosi were arrested but when the law during questioning they said that 5 others were standing ready just waiting for the order to come here and shoot all our horses but today these things are pursuit of it i mean that the state is after them and they're stopped before they can do anything little o'connell that's reassuring it because i can see the authorities are working on the state is there it's not like it was before at least to my knowledge i'm going to look look

at a lot of the buckler on the that's why the family has declined to join a witness protection program fatima has a burning question she wants to ask is if his grandmother the turncoats mother who doesn't wish to be filmed. was a part of the us as a mother how could you bear it that your son betrayed your family's mafia members to the authorities because some are saying you've been here i'm just not. this soon and i'm still standing in the line of fire ok the thing that says it all so. i know i can imagine that you resent it your son a bit for all the damage he caused by leaking oh no not you know that and also i bet you don't you know you know why she's not resentful my grandma is the mother to us all thought she knew health things operated she knew that my father had to collaborate and that he did it out of love for his children to free us from

a needless burden but she knew that there was no alternative everything and she knew the dynamics she didn't reject him she stayed by a side until his dying day on the day most the company was either going to fund them or. what's. like living in a kosan oestrus stronghold. with a j they had this agenda when i was but i know these guys and they're a bad lot lot of each other and they're ignorant and they're losers pancetta their conversations were bugged by the police it's all saw this when they talk about us when they talk about the bindi team and their children if you know what they say because they tell the story of giuseppe the mateo the child whose body they dissolved in acid. and shipped they say they did well to dissolve at nasa because it was the only way to teach his father a lesson to do you think that's ok dissolving a child in acid and you're the father of children when you come home to your kids what kind of face do you put on after saying something like that. that little

before you have rose it is referring to a spectacular case which took place in sicily in 1906. tayo the 14 year old son of a mafia informant was brutally killed by the cause in austria in an effort to silence his father but it isn't that often they don't know what was said you need to fight the mafia in your own family to get the children of the mafiosi need to tell their parents you disgust me you know i often told my father that he disgusted me and felt he decided to collaborate with the authorities because he knew that his son had rejected him the father that's what he knew i wasn't proud of him and that's why he changed and had the courage to do so at the other. for the young offenders giuseppe and his family are role models they're living proof that it's possible to live a life of crime behind you. back

at the sailing club their business has left a big impression on giacomo. prompting footnotes and for one thing because of the information. and to see what it's like for the relatives of the mafiosi to do that was really interesting and touching. the senator from critical to this. can use. to especially when fatima asked the grandmother and she really didn't want to talk. she wasn't doing so well. but given the filth of the world and i saw lots of pain and anger in her yet she said something true i'm still standing in the line of fire . if you know. in the end she decided what side she was on. even though she knew it would divide the family. into 2 because it is from other people than

the protests from. the people they've met and the things they've done at the libero summer camp have made these young people reflect on their own lives and strengthen their resolve to stay on the right path. from a committed on the last change with me this if you knew me before and see how i am now and judge me on that you'd say would all my friends do this really changed. change on the inside and the outside. is simpler to do it because of what's important is to understand what we've done and where it's brought us the dim fog cause the stuff i'm the better to be dealt a hard blow now. still something that's really made a stop and understand things better. now i know what's important in life because of it i mean because i go down. on the last evening of the camp that participants

learn that a rescue boat with more than 600 refugees on board has approached this is silly and closed but been denied permission to dock their activists in marseilles organize a spontaneous demonstration salvatore and the young people from the liberal camp also take part in a quest for their 1st you're seeing this frightens us just which is why we need to actively take a stand in the light we're lighting is a symbol that pleases me because we all need to assume responsibility as soon as wants everything my yesterday i need to be a lighthouse. it's not because i shine brighter than the others but because if i'm convinced a direction is the right one it's my duty to point the way for others. he always believed in the god of language came all the meals. and with that message the camp comes to an end for giacomo john luigi filippo and. they now know that being a guiding light helping others in caring about their fate is yet another way to

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