order the news silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe. china is promised partners rich profit in europe and there's a sharp warning you want wherever accepts the money from. the new super power will become dependent on in china as gateways. euro starts july, 1st on d, w every year, many terms of cocaine or smuggled into the board of julia total in these calabria region. the illegal drug trade has made that and get rich and powerful. it's now one of the most feared mafia groups in the world was comprised of europe.

they invest in buying up important company. they brian politicians and officials into working for you. and that means every one of the reasons 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. he's preparing the case for trial being held in collaborating town of next year. that patty has dedicated his life to fighting the mafia. her name per tanti felt it was especially important to arrest the members of the mancuso family, as they are the most dangerous c. e o, the number of arrests has been impressive. we have more than 450 because we've

achieved the breakthrough vendor now further along in our bio against drunk data than ever before. near contrast, the so called max the trial began in january and is expected to last 2 years. a huge warehouse has been converted into a 45 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 builder. lindsey prosecutor nicholas terry has been under 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 land get just to great pain. so it can be sonya, you have to take a sensible approach to data rational. i mean, you could okay, that you have to convince yourself that what you're doing is worth while. then you have the strength to carry on it, but you can't be afraid of death. you have to be rational and cool to understand that you are in the right thousands of people believe in. you give me a, your, their last it to say to us when the trial opened in mid january and then that i get the land of calabria. it was that the biggest success today who rounded up in late 2019 in coordinated braden bobbin fountain police officers. the police. more than

350 people, see 50000000 euros worth of goods and shut down dozens of businesses. law enforcement agencies in switzerland, germany, apple. guerria, were also involved. hattie, where did the rest of politicians, lawyers, business leaders. crucially, members of the mancuso klan, the family dominate the leadership of been there and get in this area. the serve as the linchpin in 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 breathtaking brutality the same because they demonstrate their power through murder. and they don't just kill using streaming brutal method get phone was anyone who makes a mistake or is disrespect at home in their eyes, be incense, and has their livelihood and destroy them with everything they interpret as

a lack of respect or damaging to their interest. it provokes a swift response that far outweighs any disadvantage. they may have suffered to respect them, then those would be the in recent decades. 170 innocent victims have been murdered at the hands of the that i get in calabria, the small town of loudy and anybody yellow? which section? that was where vention so kim 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. 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. for the model and with every handshake,

i thought i might be touching the hands of my sisters murderous maria was a, we do know venture, and so his wife and his mother are bringing up her 3 children who 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 to cleanse, do and get them. and maria never had anything to do with them instead of 10 and it was successful and outgoing. part of the well rich local family, she went to university, got married at 3 children and founded a small agricultural business. then came her shocking death, ah pension, so drunk as to where she used to have her business on that fateful day, 5 years ago,

one of many has found her empty car here and immediately called the chance. so we all got the balls. i rushed straight over here and arrived less than 10 minutes later. the mcmurry of the car was right there almost next to this one. but i was calling lud at the engine was running, but there was blood on the ground to kill us angry. and it was all b as maria had been the victim of a brutal attack. since then, there's be no trace of the queen of the police arrived with a forensics team question. the neighbors seized the car and recorded all the evidence. it could be leaking, quick, quick, quick for on vent channels. on the other side of the road is acquainted with the security system that has a camera pointing this way, but i don't think that it should have recorded everything they could have been yet . but the caribbean neary discovered that on that particular morning, the system was working properly in vincent. so still doesn't know what

happened to me. the police launched an investigation and searched the entire area, one suspect was arrested later released due to insufficient evidence. so when the trial began and lament, see a pension so hoped he might learn something over the past 50 years, then the ghetto has steadily expanded space and calabria authorities and the capital cut on saddle are now hoping to at least liberate the province of vivo, valencia the area controlled by the mancuso family. here, the local authorities were heavily infiltrated by them and get nicholas tatty has been hi or less in his investigation. 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 so much 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 viewed the entire province of debo valencia as their property, as opposed to the property. the mancuso family is heard of them that are getting the governing body known as the creamy name. it controlled and coordinates all get herself worldwide lead a lot of the rules of the drunk 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. 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 frankfurt, do sport, zurich, piano, or new york, and it's the same everywhere me

in the district of my body, prompted the mancuso clan, the status now seeking to win back territory. authorities have seized illegally purchase property like this. the lead belonging to the mancuso family journalist, mckinley, albany, there has been writing for many years about the criminal dealings and get to the far reaching tentacles of the mafia. clans, she too has a pair of body guards constantly at his side. ever since it emerged that the mafia wanted to kill him. but just go on. our own dystrophy. on the s, francesco mancuso had 11 children who in turn, who have 6 or 7 children of their own business. 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 families

and moved into the elite leadership on their influences, spread to the whole of italy, ends the entire world for the responses to prevail. in a month, he lived under armed guard for 7 years. his work as a journalist, severely limited, and no one knows when things will change legally mile you never get used to the loss of your freedom without driving a car is part of your freedom of going for a walk alone. the thing can reflect is another elements has already been like anyone who opposes them. then geta and calabria risks their life, the morphia control and tire cities and villages a regime of terror. because in the future, even though it's difficult, if i don't want to stop reporting the stories about my home,

i want my people to understand that we could live here in italy like dogs. that we could have really good line if it weren't for these criminals. a lot all development and progress in previous cars for the municipal council in the body have been dissolved 3 times because it was so heavily infiltrated by the mafia. since the mid 19 seventy's they skimmed off government contracts with millions of euros. with almost every investment made by the state and local authorities and every private business transaction than that i get, i took their cut to extra washing and intimidation. while criminals, like the mancuso grew rich, much of the remaining population were less impoverished. many left the region, especially the young and well educated. ah, vincent shows hometown of loading the body yellow was also controlled by the

mancuso clan. he hopes that the new maxi trial will also reveal from murdered his sister. ah, the shock of her brutal death and questions about what happened continue to plague venture and so and his wife is not going to come in and just sort of a youngster, a video surveillance camera here in the town seemed to con, driving up and down 10 times they thought that someone in the car was watching to catch the moment when maria left the house in the low, contrary last moment to them, if she knew casa me not so far, the trial has not uncovered the identity of the murderer. a thing, can it be 8 some believable? try and see crazy to think that the person who killed maria,

boris listed in her murder is still free and walking the street and she didn't come me not caught. i mean they miss that either. i mean, i miss maria so much. you know, she was the legal witness at my wedding as i was at home. i love to maria deeply. i love her so much. i can combine him with him any bought anything? my nephew, deprived of a pen, and another day by day, no, not because of the business of the cruelty. another agonizing pains me deeply free. i would like them to have the same line as my children, because i could even if she was out of the yellow house over there is where maria lived and the car drove up and down here 10

times back. and for the moment, when revelation has already emerged from the trial and a key witness said, while he was in prison, he heard that medea's body was driven over repeatedly with attractor, and then said to pig to remove the evidence. he said she was killed because of a dispute over land then that i get off into those as a victims bodies for the families. it's a double tragedy. there's no closure and their loved ones can never be laid to rest . we leave southern italy and travel kilometers to meet with a former member of the mafia. luigi born, having toward a candidate here on camera. he's another key witness at the trial. the information

from him has put many criminals 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 get her bosses in calabria. when luigi announced he was leaving the mafia, his father tried to kill him, the meeting and in such as 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 got out from them which they force you to eat the raw flesh. before that i said he was groomed for life as a killer to pull up the struggle. can you smell the stench of

a blood the stench of death? and then later, when you're in action, if you feel everything, you're intensely aware of all the smell of ground. all your senses are sharpened. your knees, especially while you're committing the murder. it will not kill them. she'd yeah, luigi smuggles cocaine and weapons and committed a number of murders on behalf of his family. at the age of 30, he was made a couple, a powerful regional leader. 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. feel didn't need fuel at 1st. you do everything like, you know, build senior just like you've been taught to pull them out. it's all precise. see planned ice cold without emotion, but they said, well, it's just something technical you follow precisely as though you've done it

a 1000 times, you take it out at bursley, you feel nothing. what will you do? but then when you fire the fatal shot, at least this is what happened to me. can you realize that at that moment something inside you changed? something is different, do less. 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 said sit down. so there's a meal waiting for you, and that was the last word on the subject that is from the local queue. on the day after our interview with luigi prosecutor nicholas and terry questioned him in an online meeting. his family did business with him, and crusoe klein so his testimony is also relevant to the current trial. both

families were heavily involved in drugs and trafficking contacts in latin america. the enron get 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 good luck. ok. ok. makes up 70 percent of the drug test activities. and let's say use extortion mainly to stake out and control their territory not to earn money. and when the big profits come from drugs, profiteering and then money laundering and re investing money, invest him in to the jewish mikaela, albany 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 men who so clear 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 with 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 men in that get of families increased rapidly. they not only profited from the construction work. they also placed their own people at the port, which the largest container terminal in italy that allowed them to build up a phone bigger business smuggling cocaine from latin america. in pudding vast amounts of cocaine into territory under their own control, soon made and didn't get far more powerful than the cars are enough in neighboring sicily. but only these are now they use not only julia tower,

but many other to banish and french port at all. antwerp, rotterdam, hamburg grima. g, italian ports of genoa, live on the tree s unless spits. here are my the say they send the big consignment of cocaine to wherever they expect control to be the only strength. the control is that me police specialized in our cottage. now conduct daily checks julia total to try to intercept the drugs. there are 2 main shipping rooms out of latin america that go directly to julia total. so the port and calabria is a strategic important to them that i get. $2000000.00 containers arrive here each year. the chance of police or customs officers finding smuggles goods is relatively low, but at times they do get lucky. every they go, daisy and his team,

up to 70 containers a day. every year they find more cocaine. the metal, the rip off method is the classic one, and that's where the banks and the drugs are placed on top of legally transported good humans. so they can be removed quickly when they arrive at the court on the 4th amendment due on the last year, we uncovered another method where drugs are hidden amongst the good luck with them into boxes of bananas. for example and elementary. belinda sam drilled a needle in 2020. we seized a total of 5 tons of cocaine drugs, with st. value of 350000000 euros. but it's estimated that less than 10 percent of smuggle drugs are discovered by the already the same is true of all other european

port. where the amount of cocaine being intercepted is also growing here by here. experts estimate annual sales for them and get her amount to 55000000000 euros. and then i get that call me in get to can via keela kane in latin america for a 1000 euro. they sell it on here for at least 70 or 80 times that it was a huge profit margin, wrote an impressive return in our studio chain. the recent study put the value of illegal funds, hills by the italian mafia in tax havens worldwide at around 3 trillion euros. a part of the scholars elliana. instead of having me out of the b a they can literally by half of europe comprised of their role, but they invest in shares and buying up important companies. they,

brian politicians and officials into working for them. and that means everyone is a great, i'm pretty cool about me. for my mafia member in the region of intruder 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 help can break within that and get that bundled charges. when our 1st child was born, i realized that i couldn't teach him the values of the drunk the drunk to decides who gets to die. he said, no one should have that right. time fighting for this society. i want

my children to be part of this culture. you see this sort of question, luigi, but i've been taught, knows his decision to switch sides could cost him his life. he's come to terms with that. what he struggled 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. what can you give me for? my family has lived a life of health for 14 years now. why? why is my family not under police protection to them? 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 into the concert. 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. will start the group of thought,

the same state that made you an offer to work with them. then let's you down when you actually start doing it. for me, it's a huge worry for us was to i nemo, can't go to university because that would be too dangerous. experts 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 around trial. an absolute 1st that's created hope for some that things could actually change any daily that only 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 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 convey his students include my feels he, he wants to provide opportunities for them to leave their life of crime. he also tells them about what happened to her sister and the impact her death has had on his family and on her children. go to the money back to the main navy can be meant they come after maria's disappearance, 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 in my desire for justice and truth, and channel it into something good that i want for this country. gone, the benefit of ask them the more and more people in calabria are daring to take a stand against the mafia in chancel kingdom or making uneasy luigi one of them. and for more than 3 decades, anti mafia, prosecutor, nicholas, teddy, no matter the price, they're willing to risk everything they're fight against and then get to create a better future for the next generation.

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