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a report. 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 i'm no man's land where an armed escort is essential at all times. this film will record a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of a rumor of 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 as.

well as like the food if it's left like that eventually it will break open and spread is the last known one seeder she got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such things and 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. all good. even the color of the water changed when anyone went into the sea here they see develop skin problems. so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea what are your options who

have to get. their shit. sure about three quarters of the people here lived off the fishing boats nowadays it's barely one in twenty that some of turned to power a city 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. on local 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. 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 through this toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow anyone who gets too close will lose

consciousness. because. 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. inside that because you have. something of the last twenty years we have any ideas just so used. to be for this. truth holding for the last fifty years. in this hospital and 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. i join in telling journalists i'll be was covering their withdrawal. drive and persistence led a larry lp 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 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 ilario suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know chris the owners ford. show on her last trip to mogadishu alone met with the somali national who mentioned the traffic and talks it waste are from the from the fish a. christian decided to check the story in the town of bull sauce sold out or goes

out as of. yet it was there 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 tell it it why do you want to see it before you aspire something ok just use the information that's all but ending for listen about if i don't see a country college and radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite then. shortly after the interview ilario lp and her cameraman 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 sparked dozens of inquiries in italy. legal

authorities sifted 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 ornery somali console. an expert in talks of

waste wheedle got to play. freight businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu john carlo marciano. and the fourth man in the map work is none other than the then president of somalia . in one thousand nine hundred five former president appoints as your skag leoni honorary consul scantly only makes full use of his devil magic status to set up the toxic waste scam did nor is the fact that in one thousand nine hundred three international treaty for bids 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 he offered to do the job on the cheap. among the industrialists kaggle only called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. moshe said they were looking for people who had a way to get rid of its. earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill their ship. true and i would compare that one fee and how many tons could be loaded on to the ship from under her. this ship was the minute least ten thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton and a full load. earn a substantial profit of one million dollars but skyblue only raise so much just in

his round subindustry that he began to draw the attention of the authorities a judge in the northern italian town of asti led the inquiry the authorized the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. and rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he . said what he was doing was entirely legal. that the point was that at the time somalia was a country that couldn't legally imports that sort of we. never documentation he provided to people. these days scalia 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. effectively exists only on the internet he

agreed to be interviewed only and his capacity of the prince of nuts and. see were. 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 you were somali honorary consul wants to see proof for 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 . if you don't want to talk about it or you don't know what i'm talking about i'm sticking to what i said at the door and then won't budge from that so you

don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you about nova but that is all . for free for i don't want to drag a plastic to release only are present for a quote from the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was jim carlo much you know a shipping agent. he 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 and influence. it was marciano who provided the access to all the mahdi the somali

president. became to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia leave the ship books also no matter. they can only eat and there was no note or talk yes here i'll do this to sinbad for a lot of that you will let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud that i shouldn't take the money upfront and then say sorry i couldn't do anything he and he the material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse 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 vance to do it but in the end it doesn't work out in the meantime i've made twenty or thirty thousand a year go for it you. let your dish will inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste straight

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 arise 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 seem to have been set in stone. going to l.a. 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. go often did you visit somalia in the bad sometimes did you have any dealings with elie murphy. there's quite a few affair for any magazine the one who authorized the toxic waste to be sent to some other issues of secret also and i didn't. know him to know i don't think it was him the authorizations were. killed. 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. they go back and.

rid. of the rid of. but it happened that. tragic that. faced with the damning evidence of the recordings the honorary consul decides to spill the beans and betray his former associates. 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 scud loony claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda

is islamist militias. who hit me it's here to insult lies he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you confess to this we can help you look after all the shit that arrives fully laden with waste off the coast of somalia is what i'm going to do enter a port in offloading barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea and that's it was the problem will be general ugly very very early. on a day that the journalist hilarious alkie was killed with a camera man in the streets of mogadishu a white attalia man was the first on the scene. he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john karl of march you know. i'm. 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 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 when working with you and your below progressivity our questions about the lp 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 a larry i'll be here never nor for trafficking waste. that you will get if you. tell him authorities did eventually find the somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist is always prefer him to his innocence and many believe the case

is still unresolved. and the 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 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 dumping poison into the poorest countries. was the traffic and waste benefit from a war situation. the beyond really ideally yes it makes things easier but richard

is it cynical thing to say but it's true. to score for words. i we were already filled healthily ever imagine and we'll come out of the world with a little flags italy's fruit of naples is. missing. and we're about 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 he had dumped some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. here belinda stronach i was in charge of unloading the ship when i was stuck in the port and it was costing about two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. here in haiti i

unloaded the containers usually cream just one on top of the other because i'm throwing them out one after another going their cowing up everywhere but i don't care as we're going 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 and. good for people out of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities or the russians or united. several 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 casaubon. months or sar is

a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides has 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 alcohol has also sold weapons to the various armed militia and somalia. the weapons were shipped in boats belonging to the infamous shift co company in which allow ria i'll be had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later un officials confirmed 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 it says what if you. 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 in enough judge told us you know the dangers nature of members of the network we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside. they look at i thought he did. in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer alka sar given 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 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 the law of. when foreigners attack you in the vain you defend yourself you do so well they. 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 industry suspected of disposing toxic waste off the coast of east africa.

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