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legs the legs. this is one of the most dangerous places on earth fought over by armed as 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. of. this film of record a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of a rumor the. mysterious containers filled with toxic liquids that suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast the tsunami in december

two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange objects. there's poison inside the. wells. but the food if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread lies no one seeder she got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such to anybody can come and just dump whatever they want. 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. only a little a soul less so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options who of course have the have to get over the lot a lot actually today. sure about three quarters of the people here lived off the fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty and some of turned to power a safety others have nothing but. 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. 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. get financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture.

played a role in this this is not the. sort of course for three hundred miles around here there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow anyone who gets too close will lose consciousness will be. eight hundred kilometers away mogadishu is our next destination. we head for the hospital. and. for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous check defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a canal there are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. in means that. this is something. we have any idea just

so used. to before. responding. to you. in this hospital this is just by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias have become old powerful. taliban and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist albi was covering their withdrawal. drive and persistence led a larry i'll peek to uncover a completely different story one about fishing boats. to promote the fishing trade in somalia the italian government give trawlers to a company called shift go ever shift cars 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 suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know christiane as food. show on her last trip to

mogadishu alone met with a some only national who mentioned the traffic can talk sick waste. from. a. christian decided to check the story in the town of both saw sold out or both. and it was there that the journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group and this was to be her last interview. there is about it can i see it's how it is why do you want to see it obviously you aspire something ok just use the information that's all but indeed if it was going to bust if i don't see a country call it on the radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite been. shortly after the interview ilario lp and her cameraman were murdered in mogadishu. the car in which they were traveling was attacked by an armed gang that immediately

fled. the death of a larry i'll be sparked dozens of inquiries in italy. legal authorities sifting through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncover the fraudulent toxic ways. 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 offer a cheaper alternative to 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 and it is

certainly not the most significant. for people who are involved in this toxic ring the former owner a somali console. an expert in talks a great deal got early. freight businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu john karl marx you know. and the fourth man i'm a network is none other than the then president of somalia. in one thousand nine hundred five a former president monti appoints a oney honorary consul to scuttle only makes full use of his depth of magic status to set up the toxic waste scam ignores the fact that in one thousand nine hundred three international treaty for peds the export of dangerous waste materials from

europe to the third world. scud leoni turd 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 the offer to do the job on the cheap. among the industrial lists geiger loney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had a way to get rid of its workers earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. and i would bet that one thing and how many tons can be loaded onto the ship from under

her. this ship most a minute least ten thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton 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 the authorize the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. so the. rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he met at. the office said what he was doing was entirely legal i feel that i called however the point was that at that time somalia was a country that couldn't legally imports that sort of we know the. whatever documentation he provided to people.

these days scally only is no longer a somali honorary consul is so shit with my son i can templar organizations and is the self-proclaimed head of the phantom state of nevada a tiny island off the coast of haiti. effectively exists only on the internet he agreed to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of nuts and. senior. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state. then you would have diplomatic immunity agreement which. as with 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 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 won't budge from that so you don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you. but that is all. for free for i don't want to drag the past or to release only or present have a quote from the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was jim carlo mad at you know a shipping agent. he controlled the port in the north of mogadishu march you know 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 and influence. it was marciano who provided the access to the somali president. he claims to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia the this ship took sick no matter. if it don't eat it there was no network talk yes i'll do this to sinbad a lot of that you will let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud the question would take the money up front and then say sorry i couldn't do anything he and he he the material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse through free it's a sort of scam goody the way it works is i offer to do something for you you pay me to vance 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. but you dish will inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trade roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali mahdi 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 rise ation issued from the presidential office in one nine hundred eighty six that finally permitted the import of harmful toxic waste. was put in charge of the operation which seem to have been set in stone. going to early is an adventure a half serb half italian with an 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 the mountain times did you have any dealings with elie modi. there's quite a few affair for say i mean was he the one who all surprised the toxic waste to be sent to somalia to shoot from secret also maybe. no no i don't think it was him the authorizations were going. through that hill. and yet 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. your pakistan. trickled rid of. yeah. but it happened that. tragic that. faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and to trace his former associates marciano. he says marciano plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge containers such as this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a porch he was building in north mogadishu. italian authorities used

amateur photos showing such metal containers being buried in the concrete as evidence. when they full of radioactive material a skyview only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda is islamist militias. the blogger who is going to me is here to console lies he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you confess to this we can help you much after all a ship that arrives fully laden with waste off 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 at the channel up with very very early. on a day that the journalist hilarious alkie was killed with a camera man in the streets of 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 a machine gun and nine bullets 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 me when working with you and you'll be able progressivity our questions about p.l.t. murder brought the interview to an end. 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 never for trafficking waste. the nerve wracking of it if you.

tell him authorities did eventually find the somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist is always proclaimed his innocence and many believe the case is still unresolved. and the evidence from the phone tapping of skag leonis network has been thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be troubled as italian magistrates have never sent a team out into the fields to check the facts. in a village not far from milan live someone who has changed his mind about toxic waste trade. someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. severing has since retired from all activity and lives on the street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several involved jumping poison into the poorest countries.

is the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. but beyond really ideally yes it makes things easier if you richard it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. to score for words. i we were already filled healthily imagine an album out of the world with a little flags italy is full of naples a sinking of what's missing now for and we're about an africa lover wherever there are serious problems are part of really well you know so haiti and somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever. one day in haiti where he had dumped some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. your foreign ministry i was in charge of

unloading the ship i was stuck in the poor and it was costing two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. brand hoodie i unloaded the containers usually cream just got one on top of the other come from them out one after another and were there powering up everywhere but i don't care for me to leave two weeks later i saw the results destroyed 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 had been a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities what the russians were you know. several allied himself with the anti mafia division in milan and allowed the police to infiltrate his network. the network was connected to several celebrities of the international crime scene the

police discovered the present within the organization was a certain moans are al cazar. months or al cazar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides to sold weapons to extreme right wing latin 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 alka sar has also sold weapons to the various armed militia and somalia. the weapons were shipped in boats belonging to the infamous shift go company in which allow area i'll be 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 minute 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 of what i just refuted it's only. 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 on south the moment though at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put an end to it as 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 look at i thought he did.

in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer al costs are being set up and thought he was selling arms to colombian guerrillas who turned out to be federal agents and 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're 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. the foreigners attack you move even you defend yourself you do so well with . along the somali coast a fleet of western war vessels hunt down the pirates several dozen of them have already been arrested to this day no action has been taken against any of the industries suspected of disposing talks of waste off the coast of east africa.

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