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somalia which has become the world's cheapest rubbish dump in recent years award winning journalist palmer a euro reopens the inquiry into who's benefiting from poisoning somali waters. this is one of the most dangerous places on earth fought over by armed is the most groups pirates and bandits somalia is a country with no law and order a no man's land where an armed escort is essential at all times. this film of record a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of

a rumor of the. mysterious containers filled with toxic liquid that suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast this anomaly in december two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange objects. there's poison inside the school. also like the flu if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread. is no one seeder she got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such things anybody can come and just don't put everyone . on both sides of the barrel is a sturdy hook apparently used when being lifted by a crane and so more easily thrown overboard. we

have negotiated a meeting with the council of village chiefs that the fish were killed by the barrels that were leaking that's what killed them. even the color of the water changed when anyone went into the sea here they see develop skin problems. and you can at least in a sort of i said so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options who of course of the have to get over the up a lot actually. before about three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing that was nowadays it's barely one in twenty and some of turned to power a city others have nothing. we asked the village elders whether we could talk with one of the pirates like many of the others he is a former fisherman now forced into piracy. if it was i became

a pirate because of all the foreign ships that have been destroying our fish and livelihoods that's what really made us become pirates. good financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture. toxic waste played a role in this is not. the full of course for three hundred miles around here there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow the one who gets too close will lose consciousness. eight hundred kilometers away mogadishu is our next destination. we head for the hospital. for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous genetic defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine

a canal they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. means. because you have. something. to do you have any ideas as to his. three foot. three swollen feet. in this hospital and this is because by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias had become old powerful. taliban and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist ilario albi was covering their withdrawal. drive and persistence led to larry i'll pay to uncover a completely different story one of blood fishing boats. to promote the fishing trade in somalia the italian government give trawlers to a company called shift go however shift those boats did not seem to do a lot of fishing they made trips back and forth to europe in somalia they were

under the control of an armed group of belarus suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know consumers ford. show on her last trip to mogadishu all alone with a some only national who mentioned the traffic in toxic waste our future can go fish he did go. she decided to check the story in the town of bull sauce sold out here both south of the values. and it was there about the journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group here and this was to be her last interview . where is the ballots can i see it tell it it why do you want to see it so badly you aspire something ok i'll just use the information that's all but anything for the sound of us if i don't see the country the radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite then. shortly after the interview hilarious i'll be under camera man were murdered in mogadishu.

a car in which they were traveling was attacked by an armed gang that immediately fled. the death of a larry i'll be sparks dozens of inquiries in italy. the legal authorities sifting through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncovered the fraudulent toxic way. market. modern industry produces an increasing amount of potentially fatal waste from chemicals to heavy metals and even radioactive products the more dangerous the material the more expensive it is to destroy. as a result certain individuals all for a cheaper alternative dump the waste in the third world

a solution which is completely illegal. and the italian authorities have exposed one of these networks it is not the only one of its kind of the certainly not the most significant. for people who are involved in this toxic ring the former owner a somali console. an expert in toxic waste we'll go to l.a. . freights businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jon karl. and the fourth man in the network is none other than the then president of somalia. in one thousand nine hundred five former president monti appoints. honorary consul

scantly only makes full use of his devil magic status to set up the toxic waste scam ignores the fact that one thousand nine hundred eighty three international treaty for bids the export of dangerous waste materials from europe to the third world. scud leoni toward northern italian industrial complexes it went from door to door like a common salesman to any industry that needed to rid itself of toxic waste. its destruction is expensive and he offered to do the job on the cheap. among the industrialists gagliano he called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviews on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had a ways to get rid of its. value yes the problem was they had to look for quite

a few in order to fill their ship. chairman i'm not a computer company and how many tons could be loaded on to the ship from. this ship must have been at least one thousand pounds. at one hundred dollars a ton and a full load could. earn a substantial profit of one million dollars but scheduling only raise so much dust in his rounds of industry that he began to draw the attention of the authorities a judge in the northern italian town of asti led the inquiry. arise the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. glooms rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he met. he also said what he was doing was entirely legal. over the point was that at the time somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of with. whatever documentation he

provided. these days scally only is no longer a somali honorary consul is so shared with masonic and templar organizations and is the self-proclaimed head of the phantom state of nevada a tiny island off the coast of haiti. it effectively exists only on the internet great to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of. security. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state. then you would have diplomatic immunity. as would any head of state yes. you have held diplomatic post haven't you. but that was

a long time ago your somali honorary consul wants to see him for four years yes. there are some people who believe you use this diplomatic role to bring toxic waste into somalia is that true show me show me i have no idea what you're talking about . and you don't want to talk about it or you don't know what i'm talking about and i'm sticking to what i said at the door and they won't budge from that so you don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you about but that is all . for free for you don't want to drag a pastor to release only or present havoc with the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was john carlo mad at you know a shipping agent. who controlled the port in the north of mogadishu marciano had

been living in somalia for more than ten years he knew the warlords was an informer for the italian army had won several construction contracts and peddled favors in the influence. it was martino who provided the access to ali mahdi the somali president. he claimed to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia and he did this shit took sick also very much. good money there was no network talk yes i'll do this to send that factual a lot of that you believe me tell you what it was just to make money it was a fraud the question is will take the money upfront and then say sorry i couldn't do anything and keep the material couldn't be shipped or some such exceeds through

free it's a sort of scam should be the way it works is i offer to do something for you you pay me to advance to do it but in the end it doesn't work out in the meantime i've made twenty or thirty thousand feet to fit you. the judicial inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trait roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali money is no longer president he lives in ny. the cultural capital of kenya and refuses to speak to journalists. he does however insist that the evidence implicating him is false. and yet it was official also as ation issued from the presidential office in one thousand nine hundred six that finally permitted the import of harmful toxic waste . was put in charge of the operation which seems to have been set in stone.

going to early is an adventure a half serb half italian with in a ray of passports and identities his name appears on several documents involving the shipment of toxic waste to africa is also spent about a dozen years in prison. he was another who enjoyed the confidence of the somali president and witnessed the network's activities. come often did you visit somalia in number ten times did you have any dealings with the early muddy. there's quite a few that have four or five or six anyway it was even one who authorized the talks of ways to be sent to some other issues of supergirl so maybe. no no i don't think it was him the authorizations were for a. film. and yes in his

dealings with the taliban businessmen only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. day in your backyard and yet. there it. was or it. yeah. but it happened that. back in the. face of the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and the tray his former associates mirchi know. he says march you know plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container such as

this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a port he was building in north mogadishu. italian authorities used amateur photos showing such metal containers being buried in the concrete as evidence. with a full of radioactive material a schedule only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda is islamist malicious. blogger who with him it's yet to console lives he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you can first of this we can help you much after all a ship that arrives fully laden with waste up the coast of somalia it wasn't going to do enter a port and offload the barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea and that's it was the problem will be jumbled up with.

on a day that the journalist hilarious i'll be was killed for the camera man in the streets mogadishu a white italian man was the first on the scene. he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john carlos marciano. sad because i arrived right afterwards and there was a lot of confusion i was upset. i thought it was a planned ambush because the core had been machine gunned down nine bullets need a good i said to myself they should never have been in this place and then what they said and how they got to be here well my conscience is clear being when working with boffo know what progressivity are questions about the lp murder brought the interview to an end cause. that's enough why are you asking these questions you know no one has ever been charged

with the murder of the lottery and i'll be here i have never nor for trafficking waste. the will to fuel the. italian authorities did eventually find a somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist is always proclaimed his innocence and many believe the case is still unresolved. any evidence from the phone tapping of skag loonies network has been thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be troubled as a tally in magistrates have never sent a team to the fields to check the facts. in a village not far from milan lives someone who has changed his mind about the toxic waste trade. someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severi has since retired

from all activity and lives on a street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several job involves dumping poison into the poorest countries. as krishnamurti. as the traffic and way spent it from a war situation. the beyond the ideally yes it makes things easier if you richard it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. to score for words. already feel powerful italy. of the world with little flags italy's naples is simply not missing. and we're in africa laughing wherever there are serious problems or poverty so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever.

one day in haiti where here some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed the scene changed forever. you're pulling the strings i was in charge of the ship i was stuck in the port and it was costing two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. print hoodie i unloaded the containers usually cream the one on top of the other a cork i'm throwing them out one after another they're powering up everywhere but i don't care they were made at least two weeks later i saw the results it was awful it was radioactive waste you see over. in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what he was involved in. this would get a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from all the courses are you going to. separate allied himself with the anti mafia

division in milan and allow the police to infiltrate his network. the network was connected to several celebrities of the international crime scene the police discovered that present within the organization was a certain moans are al custer. months or al qatar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides is sold weapons to extreme right wing left and american groups on behalf of the americans. as armed iraq and the palestinians. according to a un security council inquiry made public in two thousand and three are has also sold weapons to the various armed militia in somalia. the weapons were shipped in

boats belonging to the infamous schiff go company in which he had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later un officials confirm the young journalist suspicions. the boats were just used for fishing but for arms trafficking and probably toxic waste as well. the way they paid off these militias who were very poor was to offer them weapons in exchange for dumping the toxic waste it was a win win situation for them because you've got a young sister if you will it's. after three years of investigation the anti mafia division of milan decided to terminate the infiltration operation as it was considered too dangerous to proceed the morning though at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put in a judge you know the dangerous nature of members of the network we decided it was

better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside and. they looked at authority the police. in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer al qa son been set up and thought he was selling arms to colombian guerrillas who turned out to be federal agents he was sentenced to thirty years in prison. before venturing into piracy the somali gangs have proclaimed themselves the nation's coast guards. their stated aim was to protect their season shoreline from toxic waste and illegal fishing. but today they are just pirates. and yet the fisherman who live alongside them every day defend their actions they have a different notion of what represents piracy.

anyone can understand that thank you so much. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you do a lot. when foreigners attack you movie venue defenders o.b.j. old somewhere. along the somali coast a fleet of western war vessels hunt down the pirates several dozen of them of already being arrested to this day no action has been taken against any of the end history suspected of disposing talks of waste off the coast of east africa.

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