jewish life, that's what from the producer owner and journalist, these are exploring, delving into history and the present. nice to i would never have thought that judaism could be live, so i believe it's jewish in europe. the 2 part documentary starts july 5th on d, w. i every year many tons of cocaine or smuggled into the board of julia total it at least calabria region. the illegal drug trade has made that and get rich and powerful. it's now one of the most fear mafia groups in the world

of europe. they invest in bio important company. they brian politicians and officials into working for and that mean everyone is pretty cool about that. that you dish re and calabria is fighting back with the largest mafia trial in 3 decades aimed at stopping the bodies of the gap. i regional chief prosecutor nicholas penny is preparing the case for trial being held in the cannot bring in town of limits. here patty has dedicated his life to fighting the mafia. the name belt, it was especially important to arrest members of the mancuso family as they are the most dangerous. even that the number of arrests has been impressive. we have more than 450 to because we've achieved the breakthrough vendor now. further along in

our bio against the energy gator than ever before. near contrast, the calls 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 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 then that is just too great. be a pain, so can be sonya, you have to take a sensible approach to death. rational, i mean you could okay, 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 if you have to be rational and cool. to understand that you are in the right to be to thousands of people believe in. you. give me a your, their last it to say to us get when the trial opened in mid january and then that i get the land of calabria. it will track danny biggest success to date who rounded up in late 2019 in coordinated really involving 3000 police officers to police, arrested more than 350 people seized 50000000 euros worth of goods and shut down

dozens of businesses. law enforcement agencies in switzerland, germany, apple, guerria, were also involved. patty, what 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. they serve as the lynched in the cocaine trade between latin america and europe. klembara luigi to the business affiliates are accused of infiltrating all levels of power in vivo, valencia dealing with opponents, with breathtaking brutality. they think they demonstrate their power through murder . they don't just hill and the use extremely brutal method get phone was anyone who makes a mistake. or is disrespect at home in their eyes, senseless, and has their livelihood and destroy them with 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 this 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 laurie on anybody yellow exception that was where ventura and so came. nemo sister lived. 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 the thing for a while. i couldn't even come to my shop to work that and i couldn't bear to look people in the eye because i was afraid i might be looking in the eye of my sister murderer. and with every handshake,

i thought i might be touching the hands of my sister's murderer. maria was a, we do know venture, and so 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 and maria, and never had anything to do with them. my apartment is that when i go to their money was successful and outgoing, part of a well respected local family. she went to university, got married at 3 children, and founded a small agricultural business. then came her shocking death ah, attention. so drives as 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 we got a boat rushed straight over here and arrived less than 10 minutes later that mac maria carr was right there almost next to this one, but he was quite a little blood at the engine was running, but there was blood on the ground to get us on ground. it was all b as maria had been the victim of a brutal attack. since then there'd be no trace of little money queen non shut up. the police arrived with a forensics team question. the neighbors sees the car and recorded all the evidence . it took the lead quest that goes, could you throw on dent channels on the other side of the road? isn't with the security system that has a camera pointing this way, but i don't think that it should have recorded everything you got have been yet. but the cara ben neary discovered that on that particular morning that the system wasn't working properly in lynch. and so still doesn't know what happened to muddy

. the police launched an investigation and searched the entire area. one suspect was arrested at later released due to insufficient evidence. so when the trial began, mitzi shed some hope. he might learn something. over the past 50 years than that, i get has steadily expanded space and calabria authorities in the capital cut on saddle. i 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 paddy has been hi, les and his investigations. he reached the deal with 60 key witnesses who agreed to testify to avoid a life sentence in prison. mancuso mancuso family dominated this area. they

controlled all economic activity here on the j bought vocal 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 of been the get of governing body, known as the creamy ne. it controls and coordinates all run, get herself worldwide lead rules of the and john get, 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 look, colleague in the young copy to get that if they set up a new one somewhere on it, they follow the same principle. it's like a franchise whether it's frankfurt, do sport, zurich, vienna, or new york, and it's the same everywhere me

in the district of lin, buddy, talk to them and crucial plan. the state is now seeking to win back territory of comedies have seized illegally purchase property like this. the le, belonging to the men, to sell family, journalist, mckayla, albany. there has been writing for many years about the criminal dealings of them and get to the far reaching tentacles of 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 really on the s, francesco mancuso, had 11 children who in turn all had 6 or 7 children of their own. they are all engaged in a 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 the said air influences spread to the whole of italy and the entire world. for the responses to pay valiant mondor, he lived under armed guard for 7 years. his work as a journalist, severely limited, and no one knows when things were changed. to him i l. you never get used to the loss of your freedom without a lot of driving a car. it's part of your freedom of going for a walk alone to think and reflect is another element of freedom inside of like anyone who opposes the data and calabria risks their life, the mafia control and tire cities and villages a regime of terror. because even though it's difficult, i don't want to stop reporting the stories about my home that's kind of if i could

be it, i want my people to understand that we could live here in italy like dogs. that we could have really good lines or if it weren't for these criminals at all development and progress in police cars, you know, the municipal council and the body has been dissolved 3 times because it was so heavily infiltrated by the mafia. since the mid 19 seventy's, they skimmed us government contracts with millions of euros, with almost every investment made by the state and local authorities. and every private business transaction then gather, took their cup to washing and intimidation. while criminals like them on those grew rich, much of the remaining population were less impoverished. many left the region, especially the young and the well educated. ah vincent hometown of the body and was also controlled by the men who some claim. he hoped

that a new maxi trial will also reveal murdered his sister. ah, the shock of her brutal death and questions about what happened continue to plague, chance so, and his wife is not going to come in and be just something you know, the 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 concur 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 then? some believable, you try and see me crazy to think that the person who killed maria or is assisted

in her murder is feel free and walking the street and then she can be not caught. but i'm in the list that 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 go back in any book and feed my nephew, deprived of a pencil and another day by day, and not because of the next day, cruelty, another agonizing and pains me deeply free. i would like them to have the same line as my children. my sister 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 one regulation has already emerged from the trial him. i met 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 ran getter 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 kilometers to meet with a former member of the mafia. luigi born of intuitive can't appear on camera. he's another key witness at the trial. 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 in calabria. when luigi announced he was leaving the mafia, his father tried to kill him. the meeting your needs. 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 that they show you how to kill an animal. they force you to slaughter and got so much force you to eat the raw flesh. you follow one step. he was groomed for life as a killer. can you smell the stench of

a blood the stench of death? and then later, when you're in action, you feel everything you're intensely aware of, all the smell is on the ground. all your senses are sharpened. your knees, especially while you're committing the murder, 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 capital, 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 i didn't need fuel burst. you do everything like, you know, just like you've been taught to put them out. it's all precise. planned 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. when you get out at bursley, you feel nothing. when will you do? but then when you fire the fatal shock, at least this is what happened to me. you realized that at that moment something inside you changed to something is different. you didn't do this. and after i returned home from my 1st murder, the 1st murder that i had emitted with my own hands, i told my uncle who was the boss at the time. he thought that everything was okay. still, he looked satisfied and said, sit down to see there's a meal waiting for you. and that was the last word on the subject. from the little chip. on the day after our interview with luigi prosecutor nicholas and teddy questioned him in an online meeting. his family did business with the mancuso clan, so his testimony is also relevant to the current trial. both families were heavily

involved in drugs and trafficking contacts in latin america. the andro 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 your bus like ok, ok, makes up 70 percent of the john, get us activities to say use extortion. mainly to stake out and control their tara story and not to earn money directly when the big profits come from drugs profiteering and then money laundering, and re investing money. investing in to the jewish mikaela, benita 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 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 mark on it 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 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 co came 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 2 vanish and french ports at all. antwerp, rotterdam humbug. grima. g. italian courts of genoa live on a tree. and last spits, here are my the say they send the big consignments of cocaine to wherever they expect control to be the least strength control is me. police specialized in our clinic. 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 importance to them and get $2000000.00 containers arrive here each year . the chance of police or customs officer is finding smuggled goods. it's relatively low, but at times they do get lucky. every in ago,

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, and that's where the banks and the drugs are placed on top of legally transported goods. so they can be removed quickly when they arrive at the court. the court ended in on last year we uncovered another method where drugs are hidden, amongst the good luck with them in the boxes of bananas. for example, the actual mondays m deal that ability. but on the other, and in 2020, we seized a total of 5 tons of cocaine drugs, with the 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 by here, experts estimate annual sales for them and get to amount to 55000000000 euros. and then i guess i call the engine, gets a convenient keela cocaine and less in america for a 1000 euro they sell it on here for at least 70 or 80 times that they run. you know, that's a huge profit margin or an impressive return import. i tell you that i change 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 is a scholar dilemma. elliana. it's about 3. meet me out of be they can literally by half of europe comply to missouri robot. if they invest in

ship buying up important companies, they, brian politicians and officials into working for them. and that means everyone is great because me the former mafia member luigi, one of 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 influences helped him break within that. and get under contract 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 at the same time fighting for this society. i want my children to be part of this culture and we see

this sort of push 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. and 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 that he's in a nutshell, it's all part and parcel of my dentist decision of the song of, from diana into 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,

will start or 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 was 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 top mafia leaders in the province are on trial. an absolute 1st that's created hope for some that things could actually change anytime. heavily has very many mancuso family. 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 loading on the body or low local people can already feel that the power of the mancuso family has

waned. lynching for them all is working with a local organization to ensure that the victims like his sister maria, are 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. name his students include my feel, see, 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. in lubbock to demand me, if it can be meant to come after 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.

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 and gone. bennett, with the more and more people in calabria are daring to take a stand against the mafia. lynch and so kinda more keena had uneasy luigi, one of intuitive and for more than 3 decades, and p, mafia, prosecutor, and nicholas teddy. no matter the price, they're willing to risk everything in their fight against and then get to create a better future for the next generation

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