effect i'm convinced that conventions have an election historically not so great hard to make a case that it really impacts people's opinions or change people's opinions minds the convention is about rallying the troops preaching to the choir and getting them to get him to open their wallets and that is the big point is fundraising coming out of the convention with a lot of money in your back pocket that you can go on to conduct your campaign and go on to hopefully win. with the latest on the democratic national convention which kicked off last night in the united states thank you thanks. for your up to date. has been robbed of their soul that's what people experiences when their heritage is taken from them countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists them to carted off to europe. what should be done with the stolen north from africa. stolen soul start september 7th on d

w. oh . i was told wanted to be a teacher. he was studying at the u. it seemed up a teacher training college in the mexican state of get a little. but one bullet changed everything. this footage shows the fateful moment. i'll go and around 50 other students and commandeered public buses to get back to the college after a demonstration such actions aren't unusual in parts of mexico. suddenly police stop the bus and then open fire on the arm students hit by a bullet although fell to the ground. 6 students were shot dead 2 more were seriously wounded. 43 students all the aged between 18 and 23 were

abducted they've never been seen since just like thousands of others in mexico. a number of police officers were subsequently arrested accused of carrying out the murders a number of the weapons used in those crimes were german military grade 36 assault rifles made by a heckler and koch. but the german government hadn't approved their export to this region so how did they get there. according the city of trick got took up the case the almost year long trial was germany's most detailed investigation of an arms deal to date. the verdict surprised many. the case was initially brought so you can cross lead a prominent opponent of germany's arms industry the managers and walked away free

that's the big scandals improved by too close judicial system so where the managers of heckler and koch not responsible for the illegal weapons deal in the up. and you know the court. after that so goes the conviction in this chamber that there was insufficient evidence to suggest the other defendants took part in the crimes i think. the acquittal thank you were. so what actually happened it all began in 2005 german arms manufacturer heckler and koch wanted to export thousands of g $36.00 assault rifles to mexico along with submachine guns so the company submitted an application to the german economics ministry in berlin but the foreign ministry expressed concern citing human rights violations by mexican security forces including abductions and murder and get away at all and other states. the economics ministry

sought a compromise. meanwhile heckler and koch was waiting impatiently for permission to export as the company's then sales representative from mexico explains. we can only identify him as marcus b. . and then from the big deformed fella col over here with and asked by sounds whether we could change the designated and use it to figure it or because someone in history had requested that certain aspects shouldn't be mentioned and. techno and call had originally presented this and you certificate from the mexican defense ministry to the german economics ministry. the details of the certificate showed clearly that the weapons were partly intended for mexican states considered particularly dangerous. email usually play for and so i wrote an email to my wife from the computer. admin. asking her to ask the head

of de camp the official body responsible for arms sales in mexico whether it was possible not to name these 3 states and to issue a new and use so once the economics ministry had informed tech clear and cost which mexican states would not be approved if the company submitted a new end you certificate where the critical states were no longer mentioned but the strange thing was the exact same number of guns would still be supplied to mexico which surely should have been noticed. but approval for the export was given and the deal began. over the following years a team from heckler and koch travelled all over mexico showing police officers in the army how to use the firearms. here they are in colima but they also went to the states that were supposedly banned including get a table where the weapons would soon be used.

on the 19 year old a local jihadist solano for example. this was him dancing at his brother's wedding just days before security forces would destroy his life forever. don't tell me it was a clever child really bright he was always keen to see everything and to learn that's why he went to college now all that school. details of that night hot the family. all those brother lay on their tells us what happened. i really do a number of passes or was in the 1st thought when the attack started they were already heading back to the college in was the 1st the police started pursuing them

then a police vehicle not long after the junction i had to stop them leaving the city. in about the yeah so the students got out of the bus i'll go it was one of the 1st to get out he wanted to talk to the police who were blocking the road in the hope that they could proceed or not the police immediately started shooting but i have. the other students got off the buses and started filming with their cell phones when aldo was hit by a bullet the other screams for help. they called an ambulance for their friend while running for cover themselves more shots fell. that same night all those family rushed to the hospital in one day you know i saw him and he had a bullet wound to his head the bullet went in here and came out here. drug cartels kill thousands in mexico every year but the security forces are also responsible for many deaths. one of the heckler and koch instructors

started to have doubts. in 2010 he testified to state prosecutors against his former employer cough he was a damning indictment of colleagues and managers. that led to 2 police raids on the company premises and a mammoth investigation. or and he uses it opened 8 long years from the start of the investigation to the trial in my opening in my 2080 or so i think i think the world. in 2018 the largest trial of its kind in german post-war history finally got underway. trial observers took detailed minutes. jaan fun aachen was one of them. he was previously a weapons inspector for the united nations and

a member of the german parliament. i remember 3 things from the 1st day firstly the charges were read out which included conspiring to commit crimes the 2nd was that the 2 main suspects werent in the room which one has since died and the other was half larry cox mexico representative who lives in mexico and was allegedly not well enough to travel. so his trial was separated off. with. the defendants included x e o peter biola and another former heckler and koch c.e.o. . to pass employees from the marketing division. the company had grown call itself as a codefendant and a secretary from the export department but a 3rd thing i remember was the initial statements given by the accused where it was totally clear they had no sense of guilt and they think they were really serious about that. the argument was they had received approval for exports to mexico and

it was so they exported to mexico they couldn't work out why they were in court it . would be and you certificate is the centerpiece of germany's arms control mechanism in this document the buyer declares where the weapons will be delivered and where they will be used ruling out that they will end up anywhere else several different ministries examine the application under the direction of the economics ministry. the government export control office then takes care of the licensing procedure. noida bought off was president obama for 10 years. he's well acquainted with the procedures and knows those who worked in the economics ministry during the period in question. it if they clog of the head that i'd call a good as the in the heckler and koch case the colleague involved at the economics ministry was not someone who exercised any particularly critical judgment in that

regard. shall we say to the point that. that official who was in a senior position in the economics ministry was one of the 1st witnesses to be called his testimony got off to an uncomfortable start. that's all you look at for art form for a witness who was asked by the presiding judge to disclose what the mexico deal was on about he answered one moment and put a huge briefcase on the table guns he pulled out an entire file therefore there was mounted in the the judge asked him what he was doing he said i need to find on the investigation to get the indictment they're going to start some large of spying and they're going to you can see the faces of the state prosecutors turning red because that's not a lot of it is and he does i so the witness in a german criminal court case of his holding the indictment in his hands the until are usually in the. but that wasn't the end of it during questioning the witness

revealed that the other ministries also had access to the confidential files. but where they came from that bit he could remember as did the u.n. he actually stated in court we call the ministry for the economy we have a special interest in ensuring that these manufacturers can survive economically that's from the man responsible for regulating arms exports for. for decades heckler and koch has been a key supplier to the german armed forces and the police it's considered to have systemic relevance. so does the economics ministry give special treatment to a company like that. we decided to ask a former economics minister is it my god we are. also going to be piggish will be getting a statement by saying we are the ministry for the economy is the and so the ministry wants this key manufacturer to survive. you know that's true got the export

guidelines state that when it comes to arms and sponsor economic considerations are jobs are not to play a role to go towards the legal position and i hope the court is familiar with the next morning i got. back to the courtroom under further questioning by the presiding judge the official from the economics minister stated from the witness stand that human rights were more a work of endeavor in best invention phase of the people charged with safeguarding our highest value namely human rights in all constitutions in our constitution and they see it merely as a work of endeavor so if it happens to suit then we'll include that in it but otherwise we're not interested includes the absence of any. human rights as a work of endeavor. that's not with the approval guidelines set up by the government state. that they aren't glued with the sentence but this

question the human rights situation in the recipient country plays a prominent role of the villein also coming from a legal background it's clear that it's an absolute test criterion and a deal breaking criteria. and indeed the official from the economics ministry admitted himself while testifying to the customs investigation bureau that he realized the firearms had only been excluded from parts of mexico on paper. but the economics ministry denies any wrongdoing. the ministry's main contact that heckler and koch was paid for by a lawyer he was in the darkest regard but he was acquitted. well day 2 of the trial peter buyer list stated that these and you certificates are and i quote the wrong instruments owned in effect of any good artist. this supposedly wrong instrument has for decades been the basis for all of germany's arms exports.

peter biola had been the head judge of the district court before moving to heckler and koch initially he was the company's liaison officer for the authorities and then later c.e.o. throughout he was responsible for export applications and end use agreements. the export control office buffer also understands that the end use agreement is a binding document the fights not done wait for shooting to our understanding of the law and use it difficult is it an integrity part of the licensing. yet veteran legal expert peter by enough argued in court that end you certificates are not decisive for arms exports and he claim to know nothing of the reworked certificate from mexico but his correspondence with the chummy official at the economics ministry tells a different story. as i wasn't aware of this e-mail before it's completely clear here the economics ministry is telling heckler and koch you can't

export to these mexican states but these are the ones are ok and yet in the trial all those involved maintained repeatedly that there had never been a list of positive and negative states it's absurd that this is only turned up now . but that's not all. when the approval of arms exports to mexico did not appear forthcoming by a lot e-mail colleagues suggesting they pursued what he called the political route the company made donations to the constituency offices of influential politicians. we tried to speak to peter by a lawyer to with the emerge from the court one day. and his lawyer ditto creedon fate blocked our cameramen pulling out the sound cable. peter biola began brandishing his briefcase and his lawyer continued to attempt to

obstruct us. mr dialo what do you know about the party donations about heckler and koch. they were clearly not willing to talk about donations to politicians. in mexico meanwhile the families of the 43 missing students are still searching for the bodies of their loved ones. more than 60000 people are classified as missing in mexico presumed dead. and the appearance of the stones help us to locate graves. you can see these stones were previously underground. so we know the ground has been dug over here you see the difference in the color of the stone was on the surface the other one was buried deeper. then we will never let the remains of clothing are scattered across the site putrid smell hangs in the

air. well i still hope that my son will walk through the door one day. out of all the pain is unbearable we will move it just hurts so much you'll remember what i'm not giving up not until i found my son you want him every time i come up to these hills even though i'm sick i still forget my illness because i want to find out something about my son. or that. mexico has never forgotten the missing student teachers. for more than 5 years thousands of people have been taking to the streets every month to demand answers. they include families and friends of the $43.00 students who disappeared. human rights lawyer sophia there will be no represents the family's i'm an attorney of them again all of us and for a lot of human rights center and her india company in the i was an odd case for 4

years we represent relatives of the 43 students who disappeared on the 26th of september 2040 as well as the students who were executed and also those who were injured that night. ted a solana is one of my clients i will be honest i'm not. even travelling in the crisis torn state of get red always dangerous the lawyer takes us to all those family. civilian militia groups have taken control of the roads and levy so-called customs duties. were at the mercy of the local commanders . of them. when they spot our camera things get a bit edgy. they are. red

always been scarred by the drug war by violence and corruption. the good to get us family is taken care of although in this house but with donations. which we have suffered a lot as a family because we have to struggle with everything. automatically we wish for nothing more than to see this it all of the little lively guy again i do have lost him when i'm done but obviously.

the family still clings to the hope that i'll double get well again even if this is medically impossible. there which are please tell me listen most of all. he listens closely. sometimes he opens his eyes we're talk to him and then he closes love you and i want to be on the phone we take care of family you are the i am with all that every day we come here and we take care of him. all day and all night we take care of him and yes if he can hear out and he responds to. does he respond to you yes generally just yesterday he moved his finger there though he was a lawyer he still moves.

the hopes of a mother. in the hopes of a family. and a vocal we are hearing looks that i am of which we miss him very much more than a. whole family loves him so much. why is that the man is all those that's why it's so hard for us to see the change that he's undergone the way. i won't abandon you on the will i'll be with you no matter what house is us. it's. meanwhile the trial in stuttgart was continuing. evidence was presented and the court called dozens of witnesses. then on the 20th day something completely unexpected happened and suddenly the number was clear 15000 e-mails had slipped through that created a bit of

a shock up there in the bench they realized they suddenly had a lot of documents here that hadn't been included in the proceedings until. an investigation was launched into the missing e-mails where were they then the name of an auditing company came up k p m g. and then it turns out the customs criminal investigation office leading the investigation had received the e-mails about the documents for key p.m.g. but they had already been filtered and sorted. called in k p m g shortly after police searched ted quarters. part of their task was to evaluate the stats electronic communications marcos being with the company sales representative in mexico. before my car had asked kay p.m.g. to carry out an internal voluntary investigation. comprehensible to why it's enough of a prosecutor to investigate the police and so on. k p m g as one of the world's

4 largest auditing companies. the internal investigation was supposed to support the customs criminal investigation office button vuitton bag state criminal police office and the public prosecutor's office. still represents mark wispy and is critical of the fact that the state investigators had agreed to cooperate with the private auditors. this is a long the one hand it is not justifiable and in my view not acceptable that the public prosecutor's office should agree that heckler and koch of all companies which is the target of the accusations should be given the opportunity to become involved in the investigations by commissioning an internal expert report that it may take a p.m.g. a lot of money to bridges. why did the authorities agree to cooperate with k p m g in the 1st place how close was that cooperation. with the k p m g report confirms

the cooperation with the police customs avesta gaiters and the prosecutor's office . the customs investigators say they exchanged information with k.p.n. ji for 3 years. this is the reason i believe that we also have these so-called pawns in the dark we do not have the people actually responsible for the whole story for initiating it and i don't like those people are probably more likely to be found in departments of the federal ministry of economics people at the top of acland call. of the federal ministry. the k p m g investigation said there were significant irregularities in the stories of a secretary a marketing employee and the representative in mexico and said they were primarily responsible for the crooked arms deals there. what the auditors also overlooked with the purchase contracts with mexico on which the deals

had been based. heckler and koch and the mexican ministry of defense exchange dozens of purchase contracts. we have these original contracts. they explicit. list the destinations of the weapons. including the banned mexican states such as getaway at all. unlike the end you certificate the company provided the government. the court in strict guard has refused to comment on the proceedings of the ruling. an answer to a written request the chicago public prosecutor's office said the cooperation with k p m g had been helpful. but it also points out the k.p.n. g.'s findings had also been compared with the information gathered by the office and critically assessed.

k p m g had also been advising the defense ministry which was looking for a successor model to the german armed forces standard assault rifle heckler and koch was the favorite to win the tender. we vest k p m g but the company has refused to make any comment. in september 2018 accompanied by his lawyers brother luna travel district got for the trial. the court had already rejected the family's request to appear as joint plaintiffs in the criminal proceedings. in the court's opinion the allegedly good deliveries did not contribute to the concrete acts of injury in question. in the courtroom they are now took 2 photos of his brother out of his backpack

because as he later said aldo could not attend the trial himself. the court reacted swiftly. 9 court officers surrounded the guest from mexico until he gave them the pictures of his brother. you know it was all about equipment up there it was all about files and stuff no one ever talked about the victims and i think it's important in this whole discussion about arms exports not only in the trial to meet. clear from time to time this is about death this is about blood this is about war and not just about sewing machines and refrigerators and that is why this is a very very special moment for me only when you live in the courthouse to get the pictures of his brother back.

it was the end of leo's visit to germany. in february 2019 the court gave its verdict. the secretary received a 17 month suspended sentence and had to perform 250 hours of community service. a former marketing employee was sentenced to 22 months on probation and had to pay an $80000.00 euro find a social organizations. heckler and koch was fined 3700000 euros approximately the contract value of the illegally exported weapons. the other defendants including the 2 former c.e.o.'s were acquitted. both heckler and koch and peta biota have refused to give any interviews but deny any wrongdoing.

the public prosecutor's office decided not to appeal against the acquittal of by a lawyer and the other ex c.e.o. while appealing the other rulings we are convinced said the presiding judge in its oral verdict that neither and any new certificate as such nor the actual end use can be made a part of the permit in terms of administrative law but the former head of buffa the government's export control office doesn't agree. they should administratively law is quite clear that i om part of it. if i may put it cautiously criminal lawyers who do not deal with these things now often may see things differently. and that was probably settled in the stuttgart ruling. and 5. 2 months after the stuttgart ruling a court in kiel came to a different conclusion than the court in southern germany. at the trial of the german arms manufacturers exult for illegal arms exports and you certificates were

judged to be part of the export licenses. zig-zag had sold 37000 pistols to colombia although the end you certificate said they were destined for the usa next managers of zigzag germany and the c.e.o. of its us affiliate were given fines and suspended sentences. this case is also under appeal. now in germany supreme court must decide whether to deal with the 2 rulings or not. filming in mexico city in june 29 teams make a surprising discovery. the soldiers who raise the national flag in front of the presidential palace every day carry weapons from all over the world including many from heckler and koch. but a cameraman notices that the soldiers are also carrying weapons from another german company zigzag.

zigzag is the country's 2nd largest manufacturer of small arms and is based not far from kiel in northern germany. its product range includes pistols submachine guns and assault rifles. made in germany says the company's website probably. was examined licensed to export arms to mexico we asked the government which said no. so how did zigzag always weapons end up in mexico. the mexican defense ministry confirmed that usa sells pistols submachine guns and assault rifles to mexico with the permission of the us government. the court in kiel has already found the c.e.o. of zigs our usa incorporated guilty of making illegal arms deliveries to colombia via the us. the affiliate is 100 percent owned by its german parent company uka and what my holding. under american law is exhaust usa can sell weapons manufactured in

the us abroad. but can weapons made in germany be exported to mexico via the us affiliate is this permitted. wendy done and they are intended to be delivered elsewhere the german manufactures would have to say in their occupation that the final destination is not the recipient country of millions he's based but someone else. it. is. nevertheless there are as example weapons in mexico. it must have been by different route one without i'm at any rate on. this internet video of a mexican police officer shows as exult p 229 pistol. the

policeman says it's odd that his gun has 2 engravings on it. for a made in germany. and exeter new hampshire. but how did this gun get into mexico. human rights activist john lindsay poland investigates arms exports from the usa to latin america and is published numerous studies on the subject. the dated that shows that germany exported firearms and firearm parts during this period to new hampshire and that new hampshire exported firearms and firearms ports to mexico. example i haven't disclosed how many weapons they deliver and to where. but figures from the us department of commerce show how many weapons have been delivered from germany to new hampshire and from new hampshire to mexico since 2000. a document issued by the

us department of state makes clear the extent to which the exultant usa supplies mexico with weapons. on that list was a license for 6 hours to export up to $266000000.00 worth of firearms to mexico. after 2024 which is an enormous amount of weaponry it's unprecedented for mexico and for the united states in terms of any exports to mexico. the mexican defense ministry is confirming the weapons supplied by his exalted usa are distributed almost right across the country including those states that the german government classifies as having a particularly critical human rights situation. mexico distributed these weapons to states where police are of heavy collusion with organized crime and committing human rights violations raises many questions about the legality not to mention the the morality of 6 hours role in the violence in mexico both through the united

states and from its german parent. basically as exhaust. should not have been allowed to supply mexico from germany at all. so it's all the more surprising that zigzag usas turnover suddenly went through the roof shortly after arrival heckler and koch was banned from selling weapons to mexico because of the investigations back home. the mexican ministry of defense records are illuminating. so is exhaust circumventing germany's arms export laws with the help of its u.s. affiliate and procedural terms at least there would seem to be a certain similarity to the case relating to illegal exports to colombia. zigs hour has not responded to our repeated requests for comment. the former heckler and koch weapons demonstrator also provided the tipoff for this trial. in the meantime he'd moved to competitors exile. the colombian government has confirmed the receipt of

around 120000 zigzagged what pistols 3 times more than the number cited in the q. hearing. this was not approved by the german government. it has not approved any permits for small arms exports to colombia since the year 2000. so how do the $72000.00 weapons that the keel court knew nothing about end up in colombia. to find out we decided to go to bogota the capital of a country blighted by decades of civil war. and the peace here is deceptive. the city has seen months of mass protests and frequent riots the army and above all the police cns you're not i have been accused of serious human rights violations.

we saw a policeman carrying 6 l.-a pistols everywhere in fact none of the officers we met on this trip carried anything else. we visited the museum of the policy and thus are not an organization still here today for its involvement in human rights violations. the guard at the entrance was also armed with his exultant pistol. the policeman showed us as example of s.p. 2022 in the weapons display. as well so as exhaust is the standard weapon of the colombian police and he was always. trying to we all have them they're the best. then he asked a colleague for

a service weapon and showed us the engraving on the s b 2022 frame made in germany a german get it's this weapon should not be in colombia we also noticed that serial number is missing. this is a so-called ghost gun and they shouldn't exist at all. next stop. for many years the murder capital of the world. an hour's drive outside of mid-air gene we visited a retreat for the rich and powerful the ruins of pablo escobar house are a minder of the cocaine trade that is still flourishing today. in fact some say it still remains the backbone of the colombian economy. pretending to be german tourists we got chatting with police officers. we asked one of them to pose for a selfie. then he showed us his gun you can see it's another's exult s p 2022

and this time we could clearly see a serial number the german eagle and an official proof mark from the responsible office in kiel. it's going to be despised and spies if given half an hour for example here on the gun you can see exeter new hampshire. but here there are marks from kiel. to the federal eagle with the end on it and. you know some of the original stamps indicate that the thing is from germany. you know. is this pistol even allowed to be in colombia. then delete the it will be if the hardware comes from germany as your pictures imply the nazis clearly of a nation push towards. the serial number of this weapon is not listed in the kill court papers. does that mean that the true extent of zig-zag always illegal operations is much greater than previously realized. documents from the us

department of commerce prove zigzag usa continue to deliver weapons to colombia even though it was exhausted germany and the managing directors of its u.s. affiliate have been under investigation for illegal arms exports to the country sense 2014 some 10000 pistols were still delivered to colombia even after the april 2900 act then he does he see if they know it and can prove it and i think that is a reason to pass it on to the legal authorities. at mexico new documents from the u.s. state department prove that is exactly usa not only delivers finished weapons to mexico the us permit also includes a license to manufacture various example models in mexico including these ones some of which were originally developed and produced in germany. is that allowed. the german government has confirmed that zigzag germany has been granted

a total of $26.00 permits for the transfer of technology does exult usa since 2000 . but german law requires a further license before the technology can be transferred on to mexico. then when a production my sense is approved it's approved for one location in this case the us where the production actually takes place and not frank's port would have to approve any further exports again. the government has confirmed that no such authorization exists. for the $500.00 people behind such things are held accountable for that at any rate would be the job of the relevant all foreign to who as i have said will once more have to consider whether to refer it to law enforcement authorities. is the zigs our arms manufacturing group circumventing german export regulations by relocating its business to the usa and getting away with it scot free. if it is all illegal arms deals will probably

soon be carried out this way. it certainly seems to be working for his example which has now become the largest exporter of small arms in the united states. to take. gold just. the 1st part of some. of the most probably. the best films compilation of the last scene. just sent back to thank.

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