we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. the momentum corners check hotspots perfectly. and some great filter memorial to boot w travel off we go. every year many turns of cocaine or smuggled into the board of julia towel in these calabria region. the illegal drug trade has made that get rich and powerful. it's now one of the most feared, multi groups in the world. both subtle proud of europe. they invest in buying up important companies. they, brian politicians and officials into working for money. and that means everyone is

pretty comfortable, but that you disagree in calabria is fighting back with the largest mafia trial in 3 decades. stopping the rise of the get me i regional chief prosecutor nicholas penny. he's preparing the case for trial is being held in the library and town of limits here that patty has dedicated his life to fighting the mafia. the name, but felt it was especially important to arrest members of the mancuso family, as they are the most dangerous. even the number of arrests has been impressive, but as we have more than $450000.00, we have achieved the breakthrough and are now further along in our fight against the drug gator than ever before. near contrast,

the max, the trial began in january and is expected to last 2 years. a huge warehouse has been converted into a fortified court room or bunker. the trial involved 600 lawyers more than 900 witnesses are due to testify. the list of charges is long, murder, arms, trafficking, drug smuggling, money laundering, extortion, and more. the defendants, a group that includes politicians and officials, are all from the province of the bill, valencia, prosecutor, nicholas. terry has been 100 police protection day and night for more than 30 years . he hasn't been to the movies in 3 decades. he can't go to a restaurant or take a walk, the risk of being killed by the that i'm get, just to great. so can be sonya, you have to take a sensible approach to death rationalize. it could be just so you could ok,

so you have to convince yourself that what you're doing is worth while. then you have the strength to carry on. you can't be afraid of death achieve. you have to be rational and cool. to understand that you are in the right, it could be to thousands of people believe in. you. give me a your, their last to say to us when the trial opened in mid january and then get the land of calabria. it was the biggest success to date for rounded up in late 2019, in coordinated grades involving 3000 police officers. the police arrested more than 350 people, seized 50000000 euros worth of goods and shut down dozens of businesses. law enforcement agencies in switzerland, germany,

and the guerria were also involved grad terry. where did the rest of politicians, lawyers, business leaders, crucially, members of the mancuso clan, the family dominate, the leadership of been that i get this area the serve as the linchpin in the cocaine trade, between latin america and europe. klan boss, luigi mancuso, and his business affiliates are accused of infiltrating all levels of power in vivo, valencia, dealing with opponents, with breath, taken brutality to the most the think they demonstrate their power through murder. and they don't just hill and the little use streamline, brutal method get phone was got anyone who makes a mistake or is disrespect at home and their eyes be incense less than half their livelihood and destroy them everything they interpret as a lack of respect or damaging to their interest provokes a swift response that far outweighs any disadvantage. they may have suffered to.

ready respect them then as would be the in recent decades, $170.00 innocent victims have been murdered at the hands of them that i get in calabria. the small town of lote on anybody yellow, which section that was where ventura and so came nemo sister lives. she disappeared 5 years ago. it's clear she was murdered, but her body has never been found. the entire family is still traumatized by what happened. a oh, they don't put them for a while. i couldn't even come to my shop to work and i couldn't bear to look people in the eye because i was afraid i might be looking into the eye of my sister's murderer. and with every handshake, i thought i might be touching the hands of my sisters murderous.

maria was a, we do know, vincenzo, his wife and his mother are bringing up her 3 children. that a, we just couldn't believe that something so terrible could happen to maria. but someone would attack her and even take away the body, which is what the drug get to cleanse. doable and get them. maria never had anything to do with them. if i had, when i was 10 and it was successful and outgoing, part of the well respected local family, she went to university, got married at 3 children and sounded a small agricultural business. then came her shocking dead. aah! finch. and so dr. since to where she used to have her business on that fateful day, 5 years ago, one of money has employees found her empty car here and immediately called lynch, and so that i rushed straight over here and arrived less than 10 minutes later.

maria carr was right there almost next to this one, but it was quite a little blood in the engine was running, but there was blood on the ground to us and we can all be as maria had been the victim of a brutal attack. since then, there's be no traits of little darling money queen don't shut up. the police arrived with a forensics team question. the neighbors seized the car and recorded all the evidence. it literally request a quote for on dent channels. on the other side of the road is included with the security system that has a camera pointing this way, but the impression that it should have recorded everything he could have been yet, but the caribbean, the airy discovered that on that particular morning, the system was working probably on the other venture and so still doesn't know what happened to muddy. the police launched an investigation and searched the entire

area, one suspect was arrested, of late released due to insufficient evidence. so when the trial began in lament than chance, hoped he might learn something over the past 50 years. then the ghetto has steadily expanded space. and calabria authorities in the capital cut on saddle, are now hoping to at least liberate the province, vivo valencia, the area controlled by the mancuso family. here, the local authorities were heavily infiltrated by them and get nicholas paddy has been hi or less in his investigations. he reached the deal with 60 key witnesses who agreed to testify to avoid a life sentence and present. mancuso, mancuso family dominated this area. they controlled all economic activity here. they bought vocals and influenced local and regional election, the global within their territory. they infiltrated all areas of daily activity,

economic, political, and social li view, the entire province of bebo valencia as their property, as opposed to a property. the mancuso family is heard of them that i get the governing body known as the cleaning. it controls and coordinates all get herself worldwide lead a lot of the rules of the and john get to are the same all over the world. they just copy them. it's like a brand. they have a structure that's divided into territories, but called low colleague when you get that copy to get that. if they set up a new one somewhere, they follow the same principle. it's like a franchise whether it's frank for do sport, zurich, vienna, or new york, and it's the same everywhere me in the district of lin, buddy, talk to the man crucial plan. the status now seeking to win back territory already

have seized illegally purchase property. like this, the la belonging to the mancuso family journalist, mckinley, albany. there have been writing for many years about the criminal dealings of them and get to the far reaching tentacles of a mafia. clangs, he too has a pair of body guards constantly at his side. ever since it emerged that the mafia wanted to kill him, just go and course i was told that you feel. on the s, francesco mancuso had 11 children, who in turn all have 6 or 7 children of their own. they are all engaged in lucrative activities, like cocaine trafficking, a lot of stuff they were authorized by the drug, get to import cocaine from south america. that's how the mancuso won the support of the leading and drug get to families and moved into the elite leadership on media. they said their influence has spread to the whole of italy ends. the entire world

corresponds to pay value mondor. he's moved under armed guard for 7 years. his work as a journalist, severely limited, and no one knows when things will change him. i and you never get used to the loss of your freedom without driving a car. it's part of your freedom of going for a walk alone to think and reflect is another element of freedom been cited like anyone who opposes and then data and collaborate of risks, their life, the mafia control and tire cities and villages a regime of terror. because this teacher, even though it's difficult, i don't want to stop reporting the stories about my home. that's kind of for my people to understand that we could live here in italy like that. we could have really good lines if it weren't for these criminal rule at all development and

progress in police cars for the municipal council. and the body had been dissolved 3 times because it was so heavily infiltrated by the mafia. since the mid 19 seventy's they skimmed off the government contracts with millions of euro's, with almost every investment made by the state and local authorities, and every private business transaction than that and get i took their car wash and, and intimidation while criminals like them. i. those grew rich, much of the remaining population were less impoverished. many left the region, especially the young and well educated. ah, vincent hometown of loading the body yellow was also controlled by the men who sinclaire and he hopes that the new max he trial will also reveal murdered his

sister. ah, the shock of brutal death and questions about what happened continue to plague venture and so and his wife, ah, he's not going to come in and just pick up the video surveillance camera here in the town seemed to con, driving up and down 10 times that someone in the car was watching to catch the moment when maria left the house in the lo, the contrary. last moment to the new sheet garza. but so far the trial has not uncovered the identity of the murderer. a thing can it be them? a son believable. it runs you crazy to think that the person who killed maria, boris listed in her murder is still free and walking the street. and she did not come me. not caught in the list that

i missed, maria. so lunch. she was the legal witness at my wedding as i was at home. and i loved to maria deeply. i know that i love her so much. i can combine it in any bought anything. my nieces and nephews deprived of their pan in another day by day. and not because of the not cruelty, another agonizing and pains me deeply free. i would like them to have the same line as my children. gotta give me one moment. yeah. she got the yellow house over there is where maria lived and the car drove up and down here 10 times back. and for the moment,

one regulation has already emerged from the trial, and i met a key witness said, while he was in prison, he heard that many as body was driven over repeatedly with attractor, and then said to pigs to remove the evidence. he said she was killed because of a dispute over land. then get her often disposes of victims bodies for the families. it's a double tragedy. there is no closure and their loved ones can never be laid to rest. we leave southern italy and travel hundreds of kilometer to meet with a former member of the mafia. luigi whenever toward a can't appear on camera. he's another key witness at the trial. information from him has put many criminal behind bars in recent years. his life is in constant danger. he and his family live in hiding. his father and uncle were powerful and

yet, as in calabria, when luigi announced he was leaving the mafia, his father tried to kill him meeting and took this. nita, as a child, i experienced an extreme amount of violence and it was rooted not just physical violence, but also psychological in. you're still a child, but they show you how to kill an animal. they force you to slaughter and godaddy, and they force you to eat the raw flesh. you follow me one step by step. he was groomed for life as a killer to pull up the sun. can you smell the stench of blood, the stench of death? and then later, when you're in action, you feel everything. you're intensely aware of all the smells. it's not a ground,

it's all your senses are sharpened. your knees, especially while you're committing the murder. you're on a kid on luis michaels, cocaine, and weapons, and committed a number of murders on behalf of his family. at the age of 30, he was made a couple of powerful regional leader who but in 2005, he threw in the towel, agreeing to tell the authorities what he knew about the mafia. he served 6 years in prison and was then released. no doubt you need to burst. you do everything like in a given signal just like you've been taught to pull them out. it's all precise. plan. ice cold without emotion, but it's just something technical steps you follow precisely as though you've done it a 1000 times. a day or did you get out at bursley, you feel nothing. what will you do? but then when you fire the fatal shock,

at least this is what happened to me. you realize that at that moment was something inside you changed to something is different. you sort of do this and after i returned home from my 1st murder, the 1st murder that i had committed with my own hands. i told my uncle who was the boss at the time that everything was okay. so he looks satisfied and says sit down to see there's a meal waiting for you. and that was the last word on the subject of the little chip. on the day after our interview with luigi prosecutor nicholas at terry questioned him in an online meeting. his family did business with mancuso klein so his testimony is also relevant to the current trial. both families were heavily involved in drugs and trafficking contact in latin america,

and drunk specialized in importing cocaine to europe. they have their own men in columbia work. there is agent legal and can get cocaine for a minimum price of your bus. like ok, okay. makes up 70 percent of the john get us activities. and it's to say use extortion. mainly to stake out and control their tara story and not to earn money. and when the big profits come from drugs, profiteering and then money laundering and reinvesting money, invest him in to the junior mission. mikaela by nature has watched the rise of various mafia families over many decades. the more successful ones quickly invested their profits from criminal activities in legal businesses. a lot of a lack of concern that quarry over them made the mancuso plan. what it is today.

veterans in the family supplied construction materials on a grand scale to build the port of julia tower over the market. it was lucrative and at the same time did a huge favor for the drug who controlled the building of the porter partridge power and wealth of many that i get to families increased rapidly. they not only profited from the construction work, they also placed their own people at the port, the largest container terminal in italy that allowed them to build up a bigger business smuggling cocaine from latin america. in pudding vast amounts of cocaine into territory under their own control. soon they didn't get far more powerful than the cars are not in neighboring sicily. but only these are now they use not only julia tower, but many other to vanish in french port at all. antwerp rotterdam humbug,

gramma ha, g italian poets of genuine live on the tree as endless spits. here are my. these say they send the big consignments of cocaine to wherever they expect control to be the least strength. but the 2nd control is that about me police specialized in narcotics. now conduct daily checks julia total to try to intercept the drugs. there are 2 main shipping roof out of latin america that go directly to julia total. so the port and calabria is a strategic important to them and get $2000000.00 containers arrive here each year . the chance of police or customs officers finding smuggled goods, it's relatively low, but at times they do get lucky. every and they go, daisy and his team check up to 70 containers a day. every year they find more cocaine. the

middle of the rip off method is the classic one. that's where banks of drugs are placed on top of legally transported goods images. so they can be removed quickly when they arrive at the court. the court was the amount that i'm looking on. but last year we uncovered another method where drugs are hidden amongst the good luck with them in the boxes of bananas, for example, and elementary belinda jewels discovery. but on the other and in 2020 we seized a total of 5 ton of cocaine. and drugs was a st value of $350000000.00 euros, but it's estimated that less than 10 percent of smuggle drugs are discovered by the authorities. the same is true of all other european ports, where the amount of cocaine being intercepted is also growing here. guy here,

experts estimate annual sales for then then geta, amount to 55000000000 euros. and then i get that call drug. it's a convenient kilos. cocaine in less than america for a 1000 euro. they sell it on here for at least 70 or 80 times that they run a huge profit margin, wrote an impressive return in a studio chain. the recent study put the value of illegal funds held by the italian mafia in tax havens worldwide at around 3 trillion euros. a part of this, this is skylar elementary, elliana. we meet, meet out and they can literally by half of europe comprising missouri robot. if they don't, they invest in shares and buying up important companies. they brian politicians and officials into working for them. and that means everyone is it greece. i will

probably call me a former mafia member in the region, but into order has brought his oldest son nemo to meet us, luigi says neither his mother nor his wife came from mafia families. he says there positive influence helped him break with them and get on the common chapter. when our 1st child was born, i realized that i couldn't teach him the values of the in john gates. the in john k to decides who gets to die with no one should have that right. so, i'm fighting for this society. i want my children to be part of this culture in the see this sort of question. the way g one haven't taught, i know is his decision to switch sides could cost him his life. he's come to terms

with that. what he struggles with more is that than that i get, i could also take revenge on his family. they live in an undisclosed location, and they're in constant fear for their lives. can you show me for my family has lived a life of health for 14 years now. why, why is my family not under police protections? and why haven't we been given a new identity if you need to get this? and it's all part and parcel of my dentist decision from diane to telephone. so he definitely made the right decision. and now we have to live with the consequences of testing. but what bothers us and makes us very sad, is that we're not getting any kind of help assist the start of the group, thought the same state that made you an offer to work with them. then let's you down when you actually start doing it. it's a huge worry for us. what's your nemo can't go to university because that would be

too dangerous expert, say informants like luigi and their families need to be better protected so that more people will be encouraged to work with the authorities. at the trial back in lithia, all the tough mafia leaders in the province are on trial. an absolute 1st that's created hope for some that things could actually change any time. italy has very many mancuso family like this trial won't solve the problem. i wish it would, but sadly we need to carry out many more such operations. but in the town of loudy on anybody i know local people can already feel that the power of the mancuso family has waned to. so kingdom is working with a local organization to ensure that the victims, like his sister, maria,

i not forgotten. he's also volunteering as a teacher for prison inmates. he's teaching natural history. right now the lessons are online, only. all ecosystems are linked together. all organisms of a community linked together and interact may include my feels he, he wants to provide opportunities for them to lead their life of crime. he also tells them about what happened to his sister and the impact her death has had on his family. and on her children, go back to the main navy that we meant to come off to maria's appearance. a part of me inevitably changed. i was full of anger at these criminal agenda weighs 30 s corps. now, by teaching, i can somehow give vent to my anger a and not only that, i can bring my anger and my desire for revenge and my desire for justice and truth

and channel it into something good that i want for this country. gone and then again with the bathroom, the more and more people in calabria are daring to take a stand against the mafia. and so kinda more me kinda uneasy luigi, one of intuitive and for more than 3 decades, anti mafia, prosecutor, and nicholas teddy. no matter of price, they're willing to risk everything in their fight against and get to create a better future for the next generation. i

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