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foreign [Music] Italy's most powerful Mafia has had a Stranglehold on one of the country's poorest regions Calabria
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grown to dominate Global drug trafficking now one of the world's richest and most dangerous crime syndicates [Music] the group is now estimated to control up
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to 80 percent of Europe's cocaine trade cities for decades one man has been Waging War against the international risking his life now he's taking hundreds to trial
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inflicting the biggest blow on the group in its minutes [Music] foreign it's perhaps Italy's most dangerous commute by Italy's most threatened
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Target Nicola grateri has spent his career fighting the country's most powerful Mafia the indrangata as we speed through its Bastion the southern region of Calabria his five-car
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escort follows his every move I know esparado Casa De La Villa um efficient foreign
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there's no alternative given what happened 30 years ago when Sicilian prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo borcellino were blown up by bombs planted by its Mafia causa Nostra
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their murders were a defining moment in Italy's modern history their heroism still revered today foreign has devoted even sacrificed his life to this struggle the man for decades on the
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kill list of mobsters is hardened but doesn't look back thank you foreign its family Clans controlling the mountain villages from there they've spread Terror through
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killings and kidnappings deadly massacres elsewhere in Europe traced to their rivalry in Calabria today their currency is cocaine smuggled through Joya tauro Italy's busiest
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container Port the indrangada helped build it and funnel the drugs onwards East the mafia's annual income an estimated 60 billion dollars cocaine seizures here have tripled in
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the past two years military hardware Bound for Russia was also intercepted this operation two years in the making swooped on Port workers who were part of a massive andrangatha smuggling ring 35
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were arrested and seven tons of cocaine seized with a street value of 1.4 billion euros well around one in ten of the containers that passed through this port are
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checked this shipment seems to be clean but bananas from South America are a classic method that the indanangata used to stash cocaine their branches operate right around the
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world and the group is now estimated to control up to 80 percent of Europe's cocaine trade is [Music] we are given extremely rare access to
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the bulk of the drugs that were captured and what is inside here this is our last seizure it was a seizure of four tones of cocaine so there's four tons of cocaine
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here yes the water safe value is about 800 million euros the powder is tested with kits that look like something from the pandemic now detecting crime not covid it's positive
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Purity 98 percent foreign a Crackdown Dawn raids in different countries netting more than 330 suspects decapitating the Mancuso Clan one of the
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ruthless families making up the indrangata Italy's biggest anti-mafia trial since the 1980s ongoing for the past two years is in a converted call center to cope
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with the size with over 600 lawyers and 900 Witnesses charges include murder extortion and drug trafficking one of the 335 suspects is an XMP the giant
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courtroom and hundreds of defendants and lawyers is intended to prove to Italians that their state is strikingly in the dangata but equally it's only one albeit powerful clan on trial out of an
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estimated 150 and while it shows that the entrangata isn't Untouchable there's no sense here that this is the beginning of the end of the calabrian mafia so for Nicola grateri the work and the
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threat doesn't stop the mafia fighter is dogged determined but proud of this Milestone um foreign [Music]
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foreign [Music] those like Sarah and Francesco who endured the unimaginable burying their only child Mateo blown up
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in a car bomb in 2018 by the man cause Oz the indranged their clan on trial today after a prolonged dispute over land meters away from his grave lies the
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family tomb of his Killers how many more Generations will be soaked in calabria's blood feuds Finke [Music]
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non-cambia la mentalita de la persona [Music] Seminary programs
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de persona siresta foreign Mateo very much vacancy hello
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[Music] we travel away from Calabria to Northern Italy to find that rare thing and and drag it that turn coat with the group founded on Blood Ties
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disloyalty means betraying your own family and few have dared to do so everywhere Luigi bonaventura uses his name but
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hides his face so he won't be recognized by those he turned against 16 years ago he's been under police protection ever since now testifying in the Mancuso trial he offers a glimpse into the Dark
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World of Mafia indoctrination um how important do you think this trial is for the fight against the indirangada um why did you decide to become a tanco
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collaboratories [Music] perhaps the only way Italy can prize itself from the grip of the indrangita is indeed for the Next Generation to
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choose a different path [Music] that is what's driving these students some from Calabria others from the north planting and clearing land seized from
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the indrangada it's a project organized by the anti-mafia Association Libera educating and guiding youngsters away from organized crime Mafia is is a big problem for this part
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of Italy but we know that this organization are spread all over the world and so it's important to make people aware of this problem
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and also make people sure that this organization can be defeated by the law we are the future and it's it's fundamental that
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we have faith in the the state and government and not in the mafia and illegality foreign [Music]
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so what of the future for those trying to free this tormented Land from the indrangata lurking around every corner The Young and the seasoned fighter tenacious but often alone in his
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struggle hero to many enemy of some Nicola grateri escaped the mafia's clutches when he was a boy can he get his country to do the same time yes
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