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This house we're going to
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is called "The King's Farm."
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It's a colonial house
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that was surrounded by forests.
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They could stop us from coming here,
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but this street belongs to the owner of the house.
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Up until last year, before July 2007,
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Salvatore Picone lived here with his family.
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But obviously, with everything they've built here,
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he was forced to leave.
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He couldn't just stay here and get a disease or a respiratory infection.
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So, now we'll go up to the terrace to film,
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and no one can say anything to us,
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because from my house I can do whatever the fuck I want.
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Obviously.
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Look how beautiful it is.
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Oh wow! It's beautiful.
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So, imagine all the trees that used to be here. Now look at the garbage.
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Here they are. See the garbage bales?
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Oh, wow.
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These are the garbage bales.
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Poorly packaged.
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They're covered with these black tarps.
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All together they cover an area of four square kilometers.
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So, all around here?
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Yes, all around here.
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All around.
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How can I explain this?
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You have to see all four sides.
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There are bales over there, there, there and there.
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This kind of place
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doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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At the beginning of 2008,
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world news outlets were flooded with images
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of garbage piles on the streets of Naples.
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The newly reelected premier, Silvio Berlusconi
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made countless TV appearances,
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personally picking up trash and promising to resolve the situation.
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Naples and the entire Campania region had been officially declared
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an environmental crisis over 14 years ago.
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The garbage piles were just a current distraction from the real emergency.
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Almost a million tons of rubbish stockpiled throughout the region,
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illegal toxic waste dumps,
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a serious human health crisis,
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and behind it all, the largest criminal organization in Italy,
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the Neopolitan Camorra.
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We're in Naples now,
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and we're about to meet Michele Buonomo,
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who's the President of the Legambiente Campania.
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Legambiente is the most important environmental protection group.
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Campania is one of the main regions of Southern Italy.
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It's a region with over 6 million residents.
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It's a region famous for its natural beauty.
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Its capital is Naples.
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In Campania, the interests of the Camorra
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are deeply intertwined
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with environmental issues.
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For someone who has never heard of the Camorra,
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it's an organization that's both entrepreneurial and criminal.
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I say entrepreneurial, because the perception
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of criminal organizations in Italy and elsewhere,
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is that they are
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these folkloric, rogue bandits.
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When, in reality, they are criminal cartels which have affairs
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in all fields of economics, especially in the legal fields:
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cement, industrial waste, textile, transportation,
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tourism.
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And then cocaine, heroin, usury, extortion.
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I can say that, in some ways, the Camorra
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is one of the least studied mafias on an international level.
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Within Italy, it's the organization with the most associations
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and it has generated the most deaths.
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In a region like ours, it was essential to control the land,
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because the development of the Camorra
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was closely linked to the illegal traffic of toxic waste,
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illegal construction sites,
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and control of the caves,
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the last step in the illegal waste management cycle.
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The illegal dumping of toxic waste,
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first in caves and then on land,
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and the nightly burning of toxic waste,
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obviously has very serious consequences
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for the land, for the environment,
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and above all, for the citizens who live in those regions.
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Apparently there's
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another protest coming from somewhere else
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that wasn't organized before, like this one.
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It wasn't planned.
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So they're all excited because there's more people coming.
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We must defend ourselves from a state this is trying to take over our land.
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When Berlusconi sent the army to Marano
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and decided to militarize our region,
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he declared war on us.
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However, even though we detest war, we still know how to fight.
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They're doing these protests,
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because they want to fill up this empty space in a mountain
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with just rubbish, without doing anything with it,
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not burning it, nothing.
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So, Berlusconi comes with an iron fist
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and declares to the poor people of Chiaiano,
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"The trash goes here, because I'm the boss."
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Who the fuck is this guy?
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He never asked the people of Naples how they feel about all this.
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He made a decision and, like a dictator, he's gone ahead with it.
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That's how he operates.
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Not on the street, not on the street.
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My name is Patrizia. This is my husband Mario Gerlando.
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So, we're from Acerra, in the province of Naples,
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where we lived and ran a sheep farm.
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In October of 2003, the Naples Health Services
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came to tell us that the milk of our sheep had tested positive for dioxin.
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We were sad to see them killed.
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They were burned, actually.
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In 1996, our animals started dying.
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Mutating.
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A lamb was born with a head shaped like
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a record player.
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Another was born with the head of a rabbit. It was a perfect rabbit.
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They completely mutated, like monsters.
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Heads like this. Tongues like this.
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We're in Acerra at the Castello Baronale.
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My name is Luigi Montano. I'm the President of the Edos Environmental Organization.
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Acerra is symbolic of the environmental crisis in Campania.
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At the beginning of this year, much attention was given to the problem of toxic waste here.
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Most of which comes from Northern Italy.
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Industries in the Veneto region were disposing their waste
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by handing it over to the Camorra, who then burned it in the Acerran countryside.
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In 1995, more than 2,000 toxic containers
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were found by the authorities in the Acerran forest.
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Can you believe that they are still there? Nobody has taken them away.
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Then you come and tell me about the dioxin. Who am I supposed to blame?
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They've made more efforts to remove the sheep than to remove the toxic containers.
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Paradoxically, some of the most polluted areas of Campania
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are those which are used for agriculture and grazing.
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The food cycle is contaminated.
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And obviously, we eat the food produced on our land.
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Furthermore, 60-70% of Campania's vegetable and fruit production comes from this area.
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We had to move away from Acerra. It was impossible for us to stay there.
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But where could we go?
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Maddaloni is the same thing,
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Marigliano is the same thing,
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Caserta is the same thing.
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The only area which is still clean, meaning free of toxic waste,
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not like the contaminated land over there,
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is here in Cilento. We use real natural feed.
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Because here, they love animals and protect nature.
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In Cilento, we found the cleanest area of the Campania region.
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Because anywhere else, the Health Services say, "No."
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I was forced to move all the way to Cilento.
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I'm at the very edge of the Campania region.
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If everything goes well, we will open a farm in Pisciotta,
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where nature is truly protected.
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Some people haven't understood
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that if you don't protect nature, you're destroying yourself.
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We never wanted them to kill our sheep, because we wanted the sheep to be treated.
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We were told that if we changed the animal's diet,
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maybe we would have been able to lower dioxin levels,
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because dioxin gets stored in the fat.
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But they didn't do this.
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Instead, they chose to kill the sheep, which were simply a barometer of the environment.
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Not only did they do this, but they also allowed the population to go untreated.
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Because if they had treated my sheep, they would have treated the entire population.
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Because it becomes part of the food chain.
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There are many health issues caused by these environmental problems.
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There's an increase in cardiovascular blockage,
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metabolic diseases such as diabetes, thyroid problems.
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These all seem to be related in some way to the contamination of the region.
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My brother-in-law died in less than six months.
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A pain here, a pain there.
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My brother-in-law died when he was 50 years old.
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In Acerra, people have been dying for over 20 years.
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And they're too scared to call it an illness. They don't call it a cancer or a tumor.
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They call it "that thing there."
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I used to say that people didn't live to 60 in Acerra. But now they don't even live to 50.
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A we left Acerra not so much for ourselves, but for our children.
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Because I will not allow those disgraceful people-
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who ignore the situation and play around with very serious matters-
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I won't allow them to kill my child at 30,
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because they decided that my child should die of a tumor at 30.
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What are you talking about?
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I already know, I've looked into the matter, and my children and I have gone for treatment.
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Fine, so maybe my husband and I are already sick, and we'll die at 50.
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We'd have 10 years left.
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But in the meantime, I'll keep my children from eating garbage.
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You see this garbage?
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It's been here for 20 days.
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It's been at least 20 days, but probably more.
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Every morning I pass by here and I see this.
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Okay. Excuse me, but
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how many employees does the City of Naples pay to clean the streets?
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If there were only a few, then I could understand.
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But they have three to four thousand employees,
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so I'm sorry, but what the fuck are they doing all day?
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I'm Pascuale Collela.
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I live here in Ponticelli.
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I'm a teacher at the Professional Institute of Sanino Ponticelli.
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First, we have to analyze the garbage.
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Okay.
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We are now looking at...
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-Civilian trash?
-Civilian trash.
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They do some construction and, instead of throwing away the garbage legally,
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they stop here instead.
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Clearly, it's a way to save money.
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So when they see all of the shit already here, they just add more.
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This is exactly the problem,
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the institutions are seldom present or vigilant.
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And where the institutions are present,
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citizens are not informed,
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or they simply don't participate.
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Clearly they don't participate.
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A lady once said to me, "How is it possible that
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criminal organizations employ only 10, 15, 20 people,
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but they still manage to control the entire region?"
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In the sense that, on the day you open a business,
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they arrive within half an hour.
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They already know.
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How is it possible that the state,
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which has thousands and thousands of police officers,
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isn't able to control it?
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We find ourselves in a region
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that, since antiquity,
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has been considered one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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But today, Campania
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is a manifestation of the problems
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that arose from the development model promoted by globalization.
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What's unique about Naples is that, over the last few decades,
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organized crime has developed
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under the structure of the Camorra.
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And they have taken control of important parts of the region.
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This criminal organization is extremely unsettling, because
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it has learned how to globalize and finance itself.
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The Camorra's involvement in the recent garbage crisis
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was financially successful.
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This is because they leased their own lands
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to store the famous garbage bales.
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They also have great influence in the transportation business,
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including garbage trucks.
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I'm Marco Demarco.
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I'm the Editor-in-Cheif of the Corriere Mezzogiorno.
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The Corriere Mezzogiorno is a supplement of Corriere Della Sera,
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which is the biggest newspaper in Italy.
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The Corriere Mezzogiorno focuses on the Campania,
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which is the biggest region in the south of Italy.
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It also focuses on the rest of Southern Italy,
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which is the poorest, more backward, and most disadvantaged part of the country.
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So, all of these incidents surrounding the garbage emergency,
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brought to light another issue for the Mezziogiorno:
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the mafia.
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Which, in Campania, is called the Camorra. The system is always the same.
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The eco-mafia is none other than
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the mafia's direct involvement in the ecological agenda.
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They control part of the ecological agenda.
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What does this mean?
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This means that the Camorra
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owns the garbage dumps
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and controls the transportation of garbage.
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The entire process, which yields seven to eight millions of garbage bales,
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is all in the hands of the Camorra.
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The Anti-Mafia League estimates the profit
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of the three most important Italian mafias
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to be 150 billion euros (198 billion USD) each year.
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This only represents their legitimate business.
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If you add their criminal activities and tax evasions,
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is amounts to 500 billion.
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I would like to reflect on the 150 billion, because it represents their profit
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on their businesses and criminal activities.
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Why?
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Because it surpasses,
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for example, Fiat's profit.
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Fiat's overall worldwide profit,
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which includes Ferrari and Alfa Romeo,
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amounts to 50 billion.
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Alitalia, the Italian national airline, makes 4 billion a year.
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In short, it's the biggest business in Italy
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and one of the biggest in Europe.
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Having said this, the number of deaths in the past 30 years in Campania alone
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is roughly 4,000.
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If you add the 4,000 deaths in Campania, the 3,000 in Calabria,
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and the 3,000 in Sicily, then it surpasses the number of people
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killed in the Gaza Strip during the last Intifada.
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One of the most important businesses for the eco-mafia
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is the illegal traffic of industrial waste.
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So, what happens?
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Industries from the north, where most of the industry is concentrated,
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want to get rid of their toxic waste,
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and they want to pay as little as possible.
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So, the industries hand over the waste to the Camorra,
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through criminal societies.
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Instead of being disposed of properly, the waste is taken to the south,
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the majority to Campania, where it disappears.
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I have to wear a mask as well, right?
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Until recently, this was the only dump.
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In the province of Salerno and the rest of the region of Campania, this was the only one.
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Yes, until June of last year, this was the only one in the Campania region.
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We're standing right on top of the highest legal
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garbage dump in Campania.
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It stinks really bad.
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There are hundreds of acres, which have become garbage dumps
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for the industrial waste of the northern industries.
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This was recently brought to light
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when dioxin was found in the milk of buffalo.
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We are trying to understand and limit these problems.
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I repeat, this peculiarity of Campania and Naples
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makes everything a bit more difficult.
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It's difficult, because we need to demand commitment
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to a long term solution,
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because we certainly can't go on like this.
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Excuse me. Can we ask you some questions?
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Yes.
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I'm Franco Barbato. I'm a deputy of the Italian Republic.
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In Parliament, two months ago, we began a battle to support the citizens of
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Gaiano, Marano and Mignano, who are victims of a reckless political decision.
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The decision to build a garbage dump in a cave,
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which is just a few meters above their groundwater,
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and only 700 meters from the largest hospital in Campania.
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There are over 250,000 inhabitants in the surrounding area of this cave.
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And what's more, the government is wasting public funds.
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This is the most reckless choice they've ever made.
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Under Berlusconi's government, we are legitimizing illegality.
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He is playing with the health and lives of our citizens.
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These dumps will become black holes into which everything is tossed.
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Meaning there will be no distinction between toxic or poisonous industrial waste
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and domestic waste.
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So, this culture of illegality,
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of antagonism towards citizens, of not listening to citizens...
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Look at the thousands of people who are here on the streets,
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peacefully participating in a calm and democratic demonstration.
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Do you know what Berlusconi's government does?
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Look!
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He sends police helicopters.
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He sends 500 police officers.
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Instead of sending them to Casal di Principe to fight against the Camorra,
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he sends them after honest citizens,
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against good people who are just trying to reclaim their own rights,
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people who only want a safe region,
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who are only trying to protect their own health.
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It's ridiculous.
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This is a joke, like...
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We're not allowed in. We need to have an interview there,
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and we're late for the interview.
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We're not allowed to go through the main square of Naples.
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Because Berlusconi has to meet the head of the state
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and to go across from that building to that building to have a press conference,
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so they decided to stop everything. The guys just told us
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that the other way of going to the other side to have this interview
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would be to go all the way around the city.
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It would take us about 40 minutes to walk around for like a 1 minute walk.
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Just to have a press conference.
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And tell everyone who's going to deal with the rubbish.
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Quite bizarre.
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In this country, you can't protest.
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You can't ask questions.
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You can't do anything. Even journalists can't do anything.
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You can't take that.
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You can't take poster from him.
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You can't do that!
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That's against the law. You're breaking the law.
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I'm trying to ask the President a question.
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SILVIO, IS IT TRUE THAT EVEN THE CAMORRA
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WANTS AN INCINERATOR IN SANTA MARIA LA FOSSA?
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No, it's not a problem. We thought it said something offensive.
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