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i'm not laughing at the germans well i guess sometimes i am placed and laughing with the taliban we better have been thinking thinking to the german culture. you don't seem to take this grandma day on t.v. because it's all that who care enough time rachel join me for me to have plenty of course. when she was young fatima came into conflict with the law. in missiles into that thing i felt i was a disappointment to my family because they had raised me that way. for sure i would be. she fell in with baby gangs teens who fought threatened and stole. not only remembrance although due to our name 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
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do and i'm happy about that and it goes in book around your summer felicia. in 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. youths like 18 year old fatima she ran away from home at 15 and joined what italians call a baby gang. at all times i mean i was roaming around milan's sundown nanto district with my gang so i could. policeman in civilian clothes saw us stealing
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a cell phone everyone else took off but it's up to the kids i was the only one left . to their follow the police arrested me and put me in their car. so i was at the police station they questioned me but i said nothing. and because i didn't tell them the names of all of the culprits all of the blame fell on me. turned over to know me to put it so i did. or fight it out with us for protesting me. but i 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. emissions and be the thing he did yesterday i 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
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parents also supported me during that difficult time my 2 boys if they 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 fight from a simple past. but the biggest help was a condition of her parole doing an internship at libero a social worker catarina supervised her. copy my. mum that was sent to us by her parole officer on a missile she did her research allies ation program here with us she was obliged to annoy. us upper class c. but after a few months she found it less of an obligation and more of a pleasure to come here share them and she participated actively. about this she thought if that means that. if there is a nationwide network or 6. 100 associations groups and schools together they fight
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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 any but if you don't like the inside fatima is telling local pathfinders about the assassinations of anti mafia judges giovanni falcone and paolo borsellino in 1902. blathering mention about personally 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. more and more. the children express their thoughts about what fatima has told them through pictures. when they
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miss shows the knife next to it's written think before you stab me. once the drawings done it's time for the next activity. so now the others have already left. who have talked to him 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. and there was great big guy we need someone like you. more than a 100 shops like this once belonged to a local mafia 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 on the order of the activity day is
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done but fatima's work is far from over the next day she's headed to one of libraries reso szell ization camps to act as a counselor for the 1st time. fucked him out for other young people and the supervisors from leaving her i meet at genoa airport fatima's the only girl. she's a bit nervous and hope she'll be able to perform her duties well. these youths have all come into conflict with the law and are on probation giacomo and jen luigi are from milan filippo and kevin are from genoa. 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 camp is held near marsala right by the sea at the lake and
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of ali. 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 there are 7 young people from genoa milan and marsala and several counselors 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. generally g. is 1000 years old and a convicted robber. jacko who's 16 was also convicted of robbery. with a single filippo is one. 18 and was convicted of drug dealing. at. the
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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. john witty 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 only one i generally just spent the money he got from mugging people on the street and brand name clothes fashion is his weakness. and charm or just best for the level we often had a knife with us but not a big one that he could still people were afraid of us the way we acted and the way
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we talked the job i spoke in my sicilian dialect and my buddy and his team is in dialect. until a bottle of delicately she. was watching the region 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. he kept on playing in the next room this kind of thing wasn't his style. younger brother guy with a white t. shirt took the 1st cellphone away for the crazy search the kid stuff and stole it without them knowing it up or sighing or he opened the backpack without anyone noticing and of course he took the phone out. then he on the other coalitions took it and left. von.
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karajan. but i started robbing so i'd have some money. i mean was he always had financial problems at home so i never asked my mother for money. when i got older i found my own way to get cash. queen the looking for question though i kept some of it and gave part of it to my mother without telling her where i got it from but we do know for children one of them objects it's a different and. the other she never asked where the money came from on the night you know she never asked god to send so though she must have known something was up in the getting in the evenings when she came home she'd find on followed by put there containing 300 euros or more and then again looking for nickels others were not committed a robbery i never came home in a good mood because i didn't know i was never happy about it because i knew what i'd done wasn't good and i thought it was more a matter of necessity because you just don't you know have it and i love the father
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love my 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 to sort of yet to come to. me but as my dad always said freedom is everything. i don't know because they're gay people are not enough to begin to build 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 is it is when you know just being able to go out on your own or have a beer with friends but all things like that it will go in the end if you're locked
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up you can't do them up with. 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. listen giacomo also seems a bit unsure of himself. this may look like an exclusive summer camp that many young people would love to attend but there's a clever strategy behind lead better camp. saying you should do to do just that these kids feel privileged to have received this opportunity the way it should be their sport they learn respect for rules and discipline it will show that if they don't respect the rules and are careless they won't have any fun that should be should ensure that you and because the water sports are outdoor activities they
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also learn respect for the environment for nature and how to protect it you know you can watch on the team did you speak to them going to get enough food in the field. so despite the fact that she can't swim and. foxy much is bravely standing on the board at least for a while. and let's have your fun we did it we're happy we have a little. i'm with. the jeff to 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. a lot of you need to poke about taking care of others well being is also a political activity but if you're contributing to the common good. to me for our
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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 as a major blow against the mafia. pick up. some authority in greek is addressing a widespread problem in italy the absence of community spirit a lack of interest in the common good and sheer egotism helped the mafia flourish an italian society. that evening filippo tells how he got into drug dealing where did he get the drugs he later sold. the little. children not your son or daughter can. you can 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
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guy needs and it was because if all you spray organized the trade and divvy up the work amongst many other people who then split it up even more you don't need to show you that goes on all the way down the pyramid and i was right at the bottom if you are going to go for the e.u. in the end i had to pay them without getting anything in return so you out of your 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 didn't like it enough for me it was about the adrenaline rush that's why i took drugs but i wanted that feeling wanted to feel good because every day i wanted to live for the day to enjoy it and organize money to do that we're going to meet we saw you get a. lot of the before the next day the group enters deeper. waters it's time for their sailing lessons. they learn where starboard in port are and
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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 already has become. my mug people until foams and that money gold clothes shoes. generally gee had to answer in court for 7 robberies the charges were later dropped for 2 he'd committed as a minor. or some up on the judge gave me one year on probation i've come through
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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 found work done volunteer work whether i stay clean during my probation period. whether you can apply sunscreen properly. even though been ok least they see that i'm doing my best they're not throwing me in jail for giving me another chance. to. talk with. them the way to the bit i never robbed anybody. 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. that's just wrong really. i guess but i do think that it's. like taking the things . i took them and ran off i like that i was too much in my own
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head you'll se. 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 love 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 cost of a trial no a cause no stress stronghold. giuseppi is
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a close relative of this is elian mafia's boss of all bosses mateo messina. one of italy's most wanted criminals he's thought to be responsible for more than 50 murders. you know he's been in hiding for close to 3 decades for many he's a legend and a folk hero. for years just 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 numerous family members including his own brother. but in sicily those who break their silence and betray mafia members are shunned and live dangerously. limited value throughout if the what their threats don't frighten me you know why. only a few months back a couple of little mafiosi were arrested. but when the law during questioning they
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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 with the love that's reassuring in it because i can see the authorities are working on a lot on the state is there it's not like it was before at least to my knowledge. 'd look at most of the buffalo 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. i'm just going to be here as a mother how could you bear it that your son betrayed your family's mafia members to the authorities or from some are saying you fish i'm just not you this is what i'm still standing in the line of fire ok. that says it all so. i don't think i can imagine that you resent your son
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a bit for all the damage he caused him no no no no no you know that you know sides i can tell 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 she knew the dynamics she didn't reject him she stayed by a side until his dying day but to me one of the most the company was either going to fund them or. what's it like living in a kosan oestrus stronghold. with the others i didn't ask but i know these guys and they're a bad lot lot of each other and they're ignorant and they're losers upon their conversations were bugged by the police it's also this when they talk about us when they talk about the pin detail and their children if you know what they say. because they tell the story of does it begin mateo the child whose body they
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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 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 give us your photos is referring to a spectacular case which took place in sicily in 1906 in with the mothers epidemic 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 when i want to say you need to fight the mafia in your own family 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 he decided to collaborate with the authorities because he knew that his son had rejected him good father that's what he knew i wasn't proud of him and that's why he changed and had
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the courage to do so 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 that are. back at the sailing club their visit has left a big impression on giacomo. putting footnotes into for one thing because of the information and to see what it's like for the relatives of the mafiosi. that was really interesting and touching. the senator from recycled into this. contest. into specially when fatima asked the grandmother and she really didn't want to talk. she wasn't doing so well. but given that. i saw lots of pain and anger
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in her yet she said something true i'm still standing in the line of fire. even. 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 photos from the real time to. 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 strengthened their resolve to stay on the right path. for commented on the last change with me i miss you 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 me to change on the inside and the outside. is supposed to do it because of what's important is to understand what we've done and where it's
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brought us the comfort to cause the stuff on the better to be dealt a hard blow now which. still some don't that's really made a stop and understand things better. now i know what's important in life because of it i mean it could i go down. on the last evening of the camp the participants learn that a rescue boat with more than 600 refugees on board has approached this is silly enclosed but been denied permission to dock their activists in marseille organize a spontaneous demonstration salvatore and the young people from the liberal camp also take part in a quest to be 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 for sinners once everything my you'll see today i need to be a lighthouse. 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 join struck
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