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hundreds arrested in new york and chicago as protesters taking part in occupy wall street marchers meet a fierce response from police. this comes as the occupy movement spreads across the world prompting tens of thousands of vent their anger at the banks of a u.s. sapping the public purse all people have to endure is severe austerity measures and unemployment. and other top stories this week ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is jailed for seven years have directly of course found her guilty of abuse of power but there's no end in sight as new charges are brought against her despite the e.u. and us condemning the ruling. coming your way next our special report about the colombian drug lord pablo escobar and became even more famous in death.
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the crew kicks its heels and i heard tell for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the request of me top. and distrust runs deep let me ask about client. but on the fourth day it was a phone call album marina finally agrees to get together at her house. it's now learned that album marina had been asked. during the time he had been hunted or as she puts it that they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the grace of separation from her brother. knows that i've kept all the souvenirs. please will belong to pablo at one time i picked him up from his various
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hiding places. bollywood's i had a brother. that was two years old a. video of him from this time it's rare that roberto escobar was a key member of the maybe. you could also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice his speciality was accounting and his name was roberto escobar claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album arena had claimed her brother can be reached through a contact in the united states. and our would like to speak with roberto escobar. out there interviewer don't roberto to talk about publicly when you speak with i mean you you'd also need to pay some money i don't know how much that. this is to.
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eventually a deal is reached but the person we actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide his final number. trying a low ceilinged on roberto the life of. his going on a french journalist how do you. find yourself and we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah no problem can you tell me where we can actually . go to the last panel service station i'll have someone meet you there in the thank you very much dan rather. the meeting is to take place in a residential district in central medina the only condition is no cameras. the number less decide to film the meeting anyway.
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but. colorado has no wish to do well on the days when he was out of the cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most of the. beginning in one hundred eighty three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable we did everything together including during the time when he was in hiding. the remaining fifty minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful he does agree to tell us though that while pablo was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his prison cell roberto used a phone that he had missed t.v. sets to communicate with his brother. and made a phone in my t.v.
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set i break it up and turned it into a telephone. visitors will only see the team. talk with my brother any time. i change my voice and ask him. oh brother how you doing what are you up to the right time. june one thousand nine hundred three one year since i have escaped from the capital a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city under the very nose that so the police. the government decides to tighten the screws. to triple the reward and escobar dead or alive is now worth five million dollars.
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a year in the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance escobar is one of the first to own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position and. make him want to be on one day an american technician i was up in the airplane he's got a precise position. he's located the exact time in place. they aren't there if i was corresponding. with it's a mountainous difficult terrain. but i feel we organized a helicopter operation in the hope my secrecy pieces and we are late for the trip just a short while later we hear someone willing him on the radio saying hey i score they know where you also go they're on their way people and it's also by the time we arrived he'd gone. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit
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a traitor keeps the head of a cartel informed the instance the police are about to swear the colonel quickly for a time out here to trigger the police here i couldn't judge an. informer was a young police exhilarate us there was no innocent school would car. sculpt out little figures of police move you know you have a cop has he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and the radio guy from. the informant was in escobar paid using the money to rent an apartment in this building just behind the barracks for the cia and. yet korea as soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home. using a radio code called escobar left school at talk code and say things like
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tell some of the doctor as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you. know basically get out so when we were heading up towards the target would sometimes see people's getting past. the other way. you know. that the traitor is eliminated and the man arms can resume unimpeded. it's a little you know a joke how target is a guy called el chapo according to our information he's hiding in this area. or was the terrorists' hands on terrorists who place thought the boy. to. be the not the kind of minister i'm going to go but of course you know this is a photo album but i various operations and suspects. says this is the guy we want
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to catch tonight. does a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key men one by one now you're cast down on a list as well as tonight's target. the operation against a chopper is a success and many others followed the cd members of the cartel are eliminated one not to the other pablo escobar is severely weakened so towards the end escobar was running without strong. fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted also knowing that even as the people who lost. the papers were criminals who had once been
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a limited cartel collector for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight as. their bosses or to form accomplices of escobar would have enough of his paranoia and cruelty. like the police the papers knew all the secrets and habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting soon starts as the papers come down anyone that's close to the godfather. saw this change the dynamics of this. war now started worrying about his own family. is used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the families. case in point zero up and only by is not a is blood or not every time i ask about his wife and children had been
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inside nobody has heard of the attack is a. good one day they set up abominable ruin the painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as good as wife was devastated she calls papa look she says i destroyed the dolly what are we going to do about it. gradually as god begins to fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason i was down for. as long as a son and daughter in colombia he cannot relax. he decides to send them to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november maria victoria on pablo and little manuel aboard a flight of frankfurt and a police escort and filmed by the t.v. crew members. escobar breathes a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet
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a countdown to his iron hand has already begun should pull such a slow sea for his wife and kids if leave for a safe country. but there's no country that wants the. plane goes backwards and forwards and eventually he returns to colombia no one wanted anything more to do with a problem with. time to diplomatic pressure the german government sunday escobar family back home on the twenty ninth yes about is about in colombia the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us a little they are asserting the once they've been expelled from germany and we're back in colombia they begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land the escobar family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at
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the same time the peppers step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades over again no one is injured. in his leg escobar hysterical with worry forgets even the most basic security. the thought problem we're talking every day it's a true problem we have on the same frequency and that's how we started intercepting his communications. with the special investigation unit at the turning point in the battle every man has mobilized and every means deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles a cruise the streets a million and an effort to locate the godfather as soon as he opens his mouth. at the end like when people we were listening in twenty four hours a day by the time in the search served our units were on full alert ready to
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intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the first of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by ask about from different locations in the city center when any and the m.p. was always on the move in the morning from a car that was constantly travelling. the police finally figure out what to ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous hands that would drive around nonstop while he made brief cool's from his cell phone. after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. but then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from
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a fixed line so we know he's phoning from a house. the first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. the one where he is he really thinks so he tells me that's it i am at the house and right in front of it i think i can see him inside it. is near the window with a tough and in his hand. it's a confirmed sighting computed francis led by major. sutter says in the most which we were cautious not to dr house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that he had a comedy. school
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challenge get going i had public talking on the phone and that's it he was up on the second floor. so we must harvest i had my rifle on the muslim front you see we were moving slowly saddam an absolute silence this was your. i see. his status and he's right in front of me. but i don't have a clear shot not of for you i spat. like that for them and then he turns around as he sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phone pulls out his revolver and opens fire. i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him and him in the shoulder and then i just the whole debate with
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a lisp i'd. been in the policeman behind me takes his rifle and files a wonderful scene a spiral you know when people shoot some here right at the temple the bullet goes in here and exits a. cylinder i mean suddenly throws himself through the window. i jumped out too which was difficult then the windows were much higher. i moved forward to take the gun away from him. and then i take the radio call my bosses and shout. don't live columbia. is dead. within thirty minutes all one files a man of the special unit have arrived on the scene. the city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of his death some up lord others are in tears.
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his face hit the american agent steven no feet makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on recognize everybody's very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders. much less how the colombian national police must from. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three the end of the largest manhunt in history. was cut the escobar is buried the next morning just outside with. ten thousand people show up for the funeral home any escobar had been idle.
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off to one corner of the female members of the family already most crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time. sixteen years off of the death of a most wanted man in the planet's one mystery remains unresolved what happened to the meeting godfathers fast fortune where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. looking a you see it can be sold i think his family has
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most of the money because a lot of our esteban's money was ever found the whole idea that if he really had all those nuances and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just worth hof we doubtless he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today an argentine another would be. we want to check general muzzles comments. one is arias the capital of argentina. after his death as good as widow maria victoria and her two children subtle here and some come from the bay changed identity and some blended into the background maria victoria changed her name to maria is about what happened was better known today as sebastian morrow came. it took us more than a week to try to calm down the escobar family now dabbles in real estate and maria
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victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a song in the heart of palermo a trendy part of the city. where outside and decided to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning. i spoke with the best american please he's not in you know when he might be back is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going abroad. ok well thanks very much. forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the escobar family in argentina respect which journalist has been reporting on the families since they first arrived. these are military base in india so you. and i first came here they started hanging out with the locals in particular and accountancy beginning maria victoria and me which is friends you know you attend they became
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lovers monies they bought an apartment so i didn't make a bad law fast. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love is money laundering operation. going on bia the accountant begins to travel back and forth to colombia carrying trunks full of back notes this. you know in your luggage as a force possibly come in a container as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five and ninety nine in which barely over four years it's been proved they smuggled in at least two million dollars so there are some estimates that it could have been more than ten million. but maria victorias love a certain bitrate the accountant is really only interested in the money and he comes greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred ninety as a dramatic development as the entire escobar family has arrested maria victoria her
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son one pablo as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since then the accountant has mysteriously disappeared and maria victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head toward the eskimos office building. a day stick by without years. by day for we're in our car acting on a tip from one public who's just arrived back in what desirous and we'd like to meet up. but. there's no mistaking who is father was they look so similar in profile of father
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son as my past from his slight. these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of a godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant. and i call you sebastian zero zero zero said i asked him. to me as ancient history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money where you were able to use any of it. the answer is simple. the war cost
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a huge deal of money. my father was a mentally wealthy. stop dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into that war. weapons and manpower cost enormous about somalia. and beyond the cost of the weapons and explosives a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important people for example years inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman scolding him or keeping guard after their boss had finished they went in to be paid that's the way it always was one day a policeman another day politicians and i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say is a check thanks very much. arjun signed justice eventually
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throughout the case but as the only son of popular escobar there are many who have doubts of where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. well i can say is if it's true then we must be the west money and recent history since if you try and load the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what did happen to ask about his billions of a number of accounts or buried underground somewhere or are they just a legend. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria maybe godfathers widow.
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she refused to talk with us here the images we have of these few seconds of the streets and what has areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died of not many you know rooftop in one nine hundred ninety three oslo escobar the greatest drug traffic of all time took some of his secrets to his grave .
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