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Foreign
Correspondent
2020
The
New Mafia
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Sex, drugs and people smuggling. Emma Alberici braves a no-man's
land near Naples to report on a ruthless new crime group that's moving in on
the local Mafia. Will the Nigerian Mafia be as hard to root out as the local
mob? "When you enter the organization, you cannot get out other
than by death," says Italy's top Mafia investigator. The Mafia is one of Italy's most famous international business
brands, with an estimated annual turnover of $250 billion a year. But its
market share is being challenged by a group of ruthless new players. Foreign Correspondent's Emma Alberici investigates the growing
power of Nigerian organised crime in the birthplace of the Italian Mafia. The director of Italy's anti-Mafia agency says Nigerian crime
gangs are organised and dangerous. "It has many similar traits to Italian Mafia - its oaths,
its sense of belonging, the capacity to coerce, the code of silence...even
the local Mafia fear them." Specialists in trafficking humans for sexual slavery and drug
running, the Nigerians are now being allowed to run their operations in
return for giving the Italian Mafia a cut. A former prostitute, trafficked from Nigeria, tells us:
"There's no pity. If you misbehave...or you can't continue anymore, they
will bring their gun and shoot you." We investigate the two main hubs for Nigerian organised crime in
Italy. North of Naples, Alberici visits Castel Volturno, an almost
lawless coastal town, abandoned by the local Camorra Mafia and by the state.
Here, the Nigerian Mafia is left alone to use this once "Mafioso
Riviera" as a hub for its European operations. In Sicily, the Mafia's birthplace, we go undercover to expose
prostitution and drug houses and catch up with the man named by investigators
as one of the Nigerian Mafia's kingpins. At a secret location, we speak to Roberto Saviano, one of the
world's most famous Mafia whistle-blowers. He lost his freedom 13 years ago
after revealing the sordid workings of the Camorra Mafia in Naples. Now living under permanent police guard, Saviano explains the
role Nigerian organised crime plays in Italy's homegrown Mafia. To stay silent, he says, is to be complicit. |
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00:00 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: While Italy’s north is in the grips of a health emergency
brought on by the corona virus, the south is confronting a crisis of its own:
a ruthless new Mafia. |
00:06 |
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DR GIUSEPPE AVITABILE: This kind of Nigerian
Mafia is peculiar in this place. |
00:20 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Sex, drugs and
people smuggling. |
00:27 |
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"Are you still scared of them?" JOY
EZEKIEL: : No. Why would I be
scared of them? |
00:32 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: The Nigerians have arrived. Has the Italian Mafia met its match? |
00:36 |
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GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE, anti-Mafia boss: You can only
leave by death. |
00:47 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Are you scared? |
00:49 |
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ROBERTO SAVIANO, Mafia commentator: I’m
afraid of continuing to live like this. |
00:51 |
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Music |
00:53 |
Castel
Volturno GVs. Super: |
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01:03 |
Title:
The New Mafia |
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01:10 |
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EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: How can a place like this exist in Italy? We’re just a
stone’s throw away from the Amalfi Coast and yet there hasn’t been a war here
or a flood a fire or an earthquake. |
01:17 |
Alberici
to camera. Super: |
Instead, Castel Volturno has been the
product of sheer neglect . This is a lawless
wasteland, |
01:28 |
Castel
Volturno GVs. African men |
abandoned by the state. What makes this town different is that it’s
said to be the headquarters of a new emergent Mafia, one that’s coming over
on the boats from Africa. |
01:36 |
Joy
100% |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Do you
think you were in the hands of the Mafia? JOY EZEKIEL: Yes. I was actually in
the hands of the Mafias. EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Italian
Mafia or Nigerian Mafia? JOY EZEKIEL: The Nigerian Mafias. Nigerian Mafia yes. |
01:54 |
Driving
shots. Prostitutes on side of road, turn from camera |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Only two years ago, Joy Ezekiel was
just like these girls – running for their lives when they see our camera. |
02:09 |
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Music |
02:19 |
Sunset
over ocean |
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02:23 |
Drone
shot. Castel Volturno road |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: On the only road in and out of
Castel Volturno, their madams |
02:25 |
Night.
Roadside prostitutes |
force them to sell sex day and night.
They’ve been tricked and traded for large sums of money – often by their own
families working with the Nigerian Mafia. JOY EZEKIEL: All they know is money. |
02:30 |
Joy
100%. Super: |
They even changed my name. They changed my name. I was not bearing my
name. They changed everything. See, I was like living the life of someone
else. It wasn’t me anymore. I was like a shadow of myself. Just like a living
dead, I should say. |
02:49 |
Lunch
meeting with Joy in restaurant |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: A safe
distance from Castel Volturno, we meet Joy for lunch. She’s among the 80 percent of Nigerian
women in Italy the UN says |
03:09 |
Night.
Castel Volturno. Roadside prostitutes |
are trafficked by the Nigerian Mafia. It’s the first time Joy has told her story. JOY EZEKIEL: Whenever this car came, they took us to the
bush. I don’t know who I’m going with. I don’t know who is
this person. What does he have for me? Is he going to beat me up? Is
he going to kill me? Because there was nobody there. They can just come with
the car. How much the price? |
03:21 |
Joy
100% |
Sometimes five Euros, 10 Euros. EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Did they
always pay you? JOY EZEKIEL: Sometimes no. There was sometimes, they’ll
come, they’ll show you a gun. They won’t pay. They’ll do what they want, then
leave. |
03:46 |
Car.
Night. Castel Volturno |
Music |
03:57 |
Alberici
approaches woman |
Emma: "We're from ABC Australia. My name is
Emma…" EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: It’s too dangerous for Joy to return to Castel Volturno,
so another former prostitute agrees to go undercover to show how the Nigerian
Mafia controls the women it traffics. |
04:04 |
Sound
recordist puts wire on woman who meets with second woman |
Sound Recordist: "You are
now recording." EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: To protect
them we don’t reveal their identities. |
04:22 |
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Woman 1: "You’re going to pay 35,000 Euros?" Woman 2: "Yes."
Woman 1: "And you don’t know how you will pay?" EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: This young women says her madam is demanding nearly $60,000 before she’ll
set her free. |
04:35 |
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Woman 1: "Come
on my sister, I love you. I want to help you." Woman 2: "I’m scared." Woman 1: "No,
no. Don’t be scared. Alright, alright, there is no problem. I was one like
you before. I was deceived like you.
You send the money to Nigeria. Did you take any oath with them?" Woman 2: "Yes." |
04:49 |
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Woman 1: "Oath or Juju? We call it Juju. You swear, your madam make
you swear… that what?" Woman 2: "That if I don’t
pay the money, I will die." Woman 1: "If you don't pay her money you will die!" |
05:08 |
Photos.
Joy |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Before she left Nigeria, 23 year old Joy was also forced into a so-called Juju
ceremony by her family’s Pentecostal pastor. The woman promised her a new
life in Italy – food and lodgings and a job as a hairdresser. Joy took a
blood oath and was told if she betrayed those looking after her, she or a
family member would die. |
05:25 |
Joy
interview in restaurant |
JOY EZEKIEL: So I think maybe that's a normal thing. I did it. They cut off parts of
my hair, the private parts, my armpits and all of that. They cut it and they
used a fowl – a chicken -- they cut it with the blood
on top of my head, that sort of thing. |
05:55 |
Night.
Street shots. Driving past prostitutes |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: These voodoo rites bond Nigerian
women to secret and ruthless organised crime groups, known by names like
Black Axe. JOY EZEKIEL: They’re just brotherhoods
coming together, fighting for no reason. |
06:12 |
Joy
interview in restaurant |
Just to have power… just to kill… Happy to
kill. They don't pity anyone. There is no pity. If you misbehave or you're
tired you can’t continue anymore, they will just bring their gun and shoot,
kill the person. |
06:29 |
Map
showing route Nigeria to Italy |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Joy’s dreams of la dolce vita
started to sour shortly after she left her home in Benin City, Nigeria to
travel four thousand kilometres through the Sahara to Libya and then onto
Italy by boat. In Libya, she says she was raped by seven men in one night. |
06:47 |
Joy
interview in restaurant |
In Italy, her Nigerian madam showed no
mercy. |
07:11 |
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JOY EZEKIEL: Because when I came out I was actually pregnant, four months. But she made me
remove it. So I was forced to remove the pregnancy
and with blood and everything I have to go to the streets. |
07:16 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Was it a doctor? JOY EZEKIEL: It's a doctor. At home, not in
a hospital. An African man, inside his house, that’s where they do it. That's
it. EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: And you
had to go straight out to work? JOY EZEKIEL: Yeah. |
07:33 |
Night.
Castel Volturno. Prostitutes |
Music |
07:52 |
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ROBERTO
SAVIANO, Author: Prostitution,
which is fundamental, is managed by women. At the heart of the Nigerian
underworld, the people in charge are the women. |
07:58 |
Saviano
100% |
They also command the men, who are the foot
soldiers. |
08:07 |
Saviano
sanding by window |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Roberto Saviano has been in hiding
for almost 13 years. |
08:13 |
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His book Gomorrah blew the lid on the operations of one of Italy's main
Mafia rings, the Camorra. Now it wants
him dead. |
08:20 |
Saviano
in security car |
Roberto agreed to meet us in a secret
location where he’s protected by his security detail. The Camorra is the
presiding Mafia power in Naples and in Castel Volturno. He tells us how one
of its clans is operating in tandem with the Nigerians. |
08:31 |
Saviano
100% |
ROBERTO
SAVIANO, Author: That area was
handed over by the Italians to the Nigerians to manage. It was an admission
above all else that it was no longer useful for the Camorra Casalesi clan to
command street to street in Castel Volturno |
08:58 |
African
men riding bikes/walking on street |
because there’s an enormous migrant
community that could be managed by the Nigerian Mafia. Secondly, the Nigerian
Mafia pays the Italian Mafia for the right to be there. |
09:21 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Roberto calls Castel Volturno an
African city on the Mediterranean, but it wasn’t always. |
09:38 |
Castel
Volturno seafront |
It used to be a summer playground for the
southern Italian elite, but they fled when the Camorra ground this place
down. |
09:46 |
African
men |
It’s now somewhere people to go hide.
Almost half the town’s population of nearly 50,000 are undocumented migrants. ROBERTO
SAVIANO, Author: The Nigerian
Mafia installed itself, |
09:55 |
Saviano
100% |
exploiting the flow of migrants arriving to
pick tomatoes, exploiting an entire area whose work is unauthorised. |
10:13 |
GFX
Turf war images |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Co-operation was forged between the
Nigerians and Italians after a bloody turf war 12 years ago. Reminders of the
carnage are everywhere. One hundred and twenty-two bullets were fired – six
Africans were killed. Now, the Camorra lets |
10:19 |
Drone
shot. Castel Volturno coastline |
the Nigerian Mafia base its European drugs
and prostitution networks here and it takes a cut. |
10:43 |
Rubbish
on streets |
ROBERTO
SAVIANO, Author: No criminal
network in Italy can exist without alliances and permission from the Italian
Mafia clans. |
10:56 |
Saviano
100% |
A certain percentage of their business goes
to the Italian Mafia clans. In particular, when it comes to drug dealing, there is a
great rapport between the organisations, especially with the Camorra. |
11:07 |
Sunrise.
Castel Volturno |
Music |
11:22 |
Ambulance
arrives at hospital |
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11:28 |
Interiors.
Pineta Grande hospital |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: The Pineta Grande sees more drug
mules than any other hospital in Italy. The health system is free for all –
even the undocumented migrants. |
11:31 |
Hospital
workers with couple at reception |
Hospital
receptionist: "Have you any document
with pictures?" |
11:43 |
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Hospital worker: "This shows he has
the document, but not with him." |
11:47 |
Alberici
with Avitabile looking at CT scans |
DR GIUSEPPE AVITABILE: This is a CT scan, simple CT scan
without contrast. EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: Dr
Giuseppe Avitabile is a radiologist here. He’s stunned by the enormity of the
drug problem. |
11:56 |
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DR GIUSEPPE AVITABILE: Firstly it was young men – African people – they were used as
mules, and now we are seeing even women. |
12:08 |
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These
'eggs' they can contain 10, 20 grams of cocaine, highly concentrated in this
stuff. And for every person, we can recognise 30-40 'eggs' in the body. So the total amount is like 400, 500 grams of cocaine in
the body of these people. Because if only one of these 'eggs' break, the
people can overdose in some minutes. The risk is very high and a
lot of people die for this risk. |
12:29 |
Drone
shot. Castel Volturno road |
Music
|
12:55 |
Drone
shot. Hospital |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: The hospital is the only site in
Castel Volturno that’s being built up rather than
run down. 130 million dollars is being spent here. When the Camorra found out, it wanted its
share. |
12:58 |
Alberici
walks with Schiavone and his security detail |
Vincenzo Schiavone is the hospital’s owner.
When he refused the Mafia’s demands, they blew up his car. |
13:16 |
Schiavone
interview on beach |
VINCENZO SCHIAVONE: My reporting of the Camorra played a part
in reducing the presence of the Camorra in this area and produced arrests. It
helped clean up the area a little. From 2007, 2008 I've lived, now for 12
years, under full police protection. |
13:28 |
|
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Vincenzo
takes us to what used to be his favourite beach club. He used to go swimming
here with his family. "Do you now feel threatened by the
Nigerian Mafia?" VINCENZO SCHIAVONE: “We have seen the effects. |
13:49 |
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We have seen women with their stomachs open
and intestines out. We have seen people come in with heads struck with
machetes, bitten. They are terrible. They are violent. It’s a sort of tribal
violence. |
14:10 |
Castel
Volturno GVs |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Vincenzo
despairs at how the government has deserted this once promising part of the
Italian Riviera. All that prospers here now is the black market. |
14:40 |
Driving
shot |
Music |
14:52 |
Ext.
DIA |
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: The sprawling
headquarters of Italy's anti-Mafia intelligence agency, the D.I.A., sits just
outside Rome. It names the Nigerian Mafia as a growing and violent scourge. |
15:00 |
Governale
interview |
"What sort of threat does the Nigerian Mafia pose in
Italy?" |
15:18 |
Governale
100% |
GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE: When we talk about the Nigerian crime we talk about
"Mafia". Why do we call it "Mafia"? They share traits
with the Italian Mafia: its oaths, its sense of
belonging, the capacity to coerce, the code of silence, absolute secrecy.
When you enter the Mafia, you cannot leave other than by death. |
15:23 |
DIA
meeting |
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: The team of
senior analysts and detectives who work here are
exclusively dedicated to hunting Mafia and the Nigerian connection. Organised
crime is now Italy's biggest enterprise – worth even more than Fiat. These
investigators say the Mafia generates income of 250 billion dollars a year. For Giuseppe Governale, a Sicilian, the fight against
the Mafia is personal. |
15:55 |
Governale
interview |
"In the
years you’ve been the head of intelligence, head of anti-Mafia, have you ever
felt discouraged by the enormity of the task?" GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE: No, you need
enthusiasm, energy. As an adult, I've been lucky to do the job I dreamt of
doing as a child. |
16:31 |
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When I left
Palermo, it was a time when there was a murder on the streets almost every
day. When people tell me what's
happened to them I feel charged like a battery. |
16:49 |
Governale
shows photo |
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: Director
Governale keeps a photo on his desk of himself as a nine year old. He’s with
the local police chief, a man he idolised as a child. Shortly after this
moment was captured, the policeman was killed by the Mafia -- blown up in a
car bomb attack. |
17:02 |
Drone
shot. Palermo GV/Palermo street GVs |
Music |
17:22 |
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Director
Governale was born in Palermo, the capital of Sicily and the birthplace of
Italy's oldest Mafia – Cosa Nostra.
Like all Sicilians, he knows the brutality behind the beauty of this
place. On
Palermo's waterfront, an iconic image boldly remembers two celebrated
anti-Mafia prosecutors -- Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino – murdered by
the Mafia in 1992. Decades on, this city is now said to be the other main hub
of the Nigerian Mafia. |
17:28 |
Governale
100% |
GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE: In the most populous parts of Palermo where this type of
crime rate is most felt, |
18:16 |
Drone
shot over street market |
we’ve
determined that even the Italian Mafia fears them. |
18:23 |
Ballaro
street market |
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18:33 |
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EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: Palermo’s Ballaro
street market – full of colour and culinary quirks – doesn’t feel like a
place where danger lingers. But among
all the bustle, there’s the hustle. The most lucrative trade here is in
narcotics. |
18:40 |
Jacob
on street |
New arrivals from
Africa who aren’t granted asylum are drawn to Ballaro to eke out a living in
the shadow economy. They’re easy prey for Mafia recruiters. |
19:09 |
Alberici
walks with Jacob |
So I’m here with Jacob which isn’t his real
name. He’s asked me to protect his identity because
it’s only been six weeks since he was released from jail having served 18
months for drug dealing. Now it’s not a life he particularly wants to return
to, but at the moment he’s in a bind. He doesn’t see much of an
alternative. |
19:29 |
Jacob
and Alberici into apartment |
He agreed to talk to us
only if we changed his voice. |
19:59 |
Jacob
interview |
JACOB: I was cooking drugs for them. EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Cooking the drugs?
What sort of drugs? JACOB: It’s called crack. Crack cocaine. |
20:05 |
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I
feel pressure because I don’t have any job to do. Some people who know me,
they are calling me in to do it for them. I refuse because I don’t want to do
it again. |
20:15 |
African
men on streets |
Music
|
20:27 |
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EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Like so many
others, Jacob has no passport, no job and no prospects, but the pressure to
get back into the drug game isn’t only coming from the Nigerians. "The
person at the top, |
20:32 |
Jacob
interview |
were
they African or Italian?" JACOB: It was always an Italian. As a foreigner
you don’t get to commit high crimes like he who is born here. It’s his
country. |
20:49 |
Men
in laneways |
Music |
21:03 |
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EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: Authorities say
Black Axe snuck in to Ballaro during boat arrivals in the '80s and '90s. Cosa
Nostra has now struck an unholy alliance with the Nigerians, charging them pizzo, protection money, to operate, on Cosa Nostra land. |
21:07 |
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GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE:
Italian
Mafiosi are people who are used to a high level of danger. |
21:34 |
Governale
100% |
To achieve their respect means that they are
afraid that the Nigerians have the capacity to exercise the same magnitude of
violence. Because in that world, everything is
determined, not by rules, but rather by who has the capacity to carry out
violence, to be pitiless. |
21:41 |
African
man fitted with hidden camera into connection house |
EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: An African Ballaro resident agreed to help
us reveal the Nigerian Mafia’s operations, but only
if we keep his identity secret. He takes a hidden camera into one of the
area’s 30 or so brothels. |
22:14 |
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They call them connection houses. Sex isn’t
the only thing for sale here; you can also buy alcohol and drugs, but only Africans are allowed in. |
22:37 |
Hidden
camera footage. Man buys heroin |
- Listen to me. One gram of heroin. |
22:52 |
Drone
shot. Driving through park |
Music |
23:11 |
Alberici
driving through park past prostitutes |
EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: When Nigerian sex
workers are not in Palermo’s connection houses, their madams force them on to
the streets. We’re cutting through a
park on the outskirts of Palermo. |
23:16 |
|
It’s,
as you can see, enormous. It’s called la favorita and it is a favourite
haunt of local men looking for sex. The price of sex with these trafficked
women is less than ten dollars. It can take them years to pay off their
madams. |
23:32 |
Drone
shots of park |
Music
|
23:55 |
Governale
interview |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: How have you
managed to distinguish this is Mafia activity as opposed to any other sort of
crime? |
24:03 |
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GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE: Because
they’re organised. There is a boss, they have acronyms for identifying roles.
for example, they have a MOD – Minister of Defence – in Italy.
Imagine that! |
24:11 |
|
Music |
24:22 |
Mohamed
walking |
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: We tracked down the man the D.I.A. refers
to as the Nigerian Mafia’s Minister of Defence. He’s 27 year old Mohamed
Abubakar. He was held in custody for
three years on charges of being a Black Axe ringleader. MOHAMED ABUBAKAR: I was accused. |
24:26 |
Mohamed
interview |
But I’m
not a member of Black Axe, I have never heard anything about Black Axe. I
don’t know anything about Black Axe. I was just accused. |
24:45 |
Interior.
Courtroom trial |
|
24:52 |
|
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Foreign
Correspondent was given rare access to film inside Palermo's city court,
where Mohamed was recently acquitted of Mafia involvement. Another 12 African
men are still on trial; all accused by one informant, not of specific crimes,
but of belonging to a Mafia group. |
24:58 |
|
PROSECUTOR:
"You say he’s the head of Black Axe, Is that
what you’re saying? You’re saying he’s in fact one of the founding
members?" |
25:21 |
|
EMMA ALBERICI, Reporter: The Nigerians are
the first foreign Mafia to be tried under Italy's anti-Mafia laws, but
Palermo's prosecutors are finding it hard to make the charges stick. Five
Nigerians have already been acquitted. These men are appealing convictions
from a lower court. |
25:30 |
Pecoraro
in court with clients |
Defence
lawyer Cinzia Pecoraro is adamant the whole court process is a sham. |
25:51 |
Pecoraro
100% |
CINZIA
PECORARO, Defence Lawyer: I absolutely believe that there is no Mafia in
Palermo. No Nigerian Mafia. I have lived through this for years, I know what
Mafia looks like, the true Mafia. |
25:57 |
Hidden
camera footage. Di Giacomo brothers in jail |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: The legal system
is struggling to prove the Nigerians are in fact Mafia, but Italy's homegrown
Mafia is in no doubt. This hidden camera footage captured in jail shows crime
bosses and brothers Giuseppe and Giovanni di Giacomo discussing just that. |
26:08 |
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Giovanni:
"Where are these guys from?" Giuseppe:
" Nigerians. They're Nigerians." Giovanni:
"Ah, really?" Giuseppe:
"F*** Giovanni, you know it is." Giovanni: "Are they tough? Are they really f**ed
up?" Giuseppe:
"Yes. It’s like we are. You know how we are?" Giovanni:
"They understand that they need to stay in their place?" Giuseppe:
" F*** of course. They bring us money and business, understand?" |
26:28 |
Joy
in shop with customer |
Music
|
27:03 |
|
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: Back in safe territory an hour away from Castel Volturno, Joy
Ezekiel is enjoying her new life, making and selling African homewares. She’s
working with a group of nuns who’ve rescued 600 trafficked women in the
region. After spending 12 harrowing months as a sex
slave, Joy reported her Nigerian captors to police. |
27:05 |
|
Joy:
"This is the shape of a heart…" Customer: "Yes, beautiful, I saw that. Joy:
"Always with love." Customer:
"And with hope." |
27:35 |
|
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: The shop is called New Hope, and that’s exactly what Joy has now,
with a job she loves in a country she’s proud to call home. She’s even gone
back to school. |
27:49 |
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JOY
EZEKIEL: The only thing that makes me
happy is that I’m free today. |
28:06 |
Joy
interview in restaurant |
It’s
behind me now. Even if sometimes, whenever I go to bed, I find it difficult
to sleep. But I just let it go. Life goes on. EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: It has to. JOY
EZEKIEL: Life goes on. |
28:11 |
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Music
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28:25 |
Joy
in class |
|
28:29 |
|
EMMA ALBERICI,
Reporter: What are your dreams, Joy? |
28:33 |
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JOY EZEKIEL: My dreams in life is helping the less privileged, and
other girls who’ve passed through this kind of experience. To help them out,
to give them courage, and hope for the future. |
28:35 |
Saviano
with security detail out of car into park to greet Alberici |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: One man who will
never be free from the Mafia is Roberto Saviano. |
28:57 |
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Is
it rare that you are out in a park like this? ROBERTO
SAVIANO: A little, yes. Once in a
while I can take a walk but it feels a little
strange. |
29:08 |
Alberici
and Saviano walk in park |
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Five plain clothed
policemen are watching Roberto around the clock. He’s determined to keep
exposing Italy’s underbelly and how it interacts with the “New Nigerian
Mafia”. |
29:24 |
|
ROBERTO
SAVIANO: To declare a truth, I knew on
some level it could put me at risk. But I didn’t believe that I’d be
condemned to death. When a soldier leaves for war he knows he will return
either dead or alive. But he doesn’t put into the equation that he’ll be
injured, not dead but not alive either. And that’s exactly what’s happened to
me. I couldn’t have imagined that there would be this place of limbo that
would be so terrible. Not dead or alive. |
29:39 |
|
EMMA
ALBERICI, Reporter: Roberto doesn’t
know what his future looks like, except that he’ll never stay quiet. To be
silent, he says, is to be complicit. |
30:24 |
Credits
(see below) |
|
30:40 |
Outpoint |
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31:18 |
CREDITS
Reporter: Emma Alberici
Producer: Giulia Sirignani
Camera: Louie Eroglu ACS
Editor: Stuart Miller
Assistant Editor: Tom Carr
Research: Giulia Sirignani
Fixers: Francesco Bellina
Vincenzo Ammaliato
Graphics: Andres
Gomez Isaza
Archival Research: Michelle Boukheris
Additional Vision: ICRC, Open Arms and Procura della Repubblica
Production Manager
Michelle
Roberts
Production Co-ordinator
Victoria
Allen
Digital Producer
Matt
Henry
Supervising Producer
Lisa
McGregor
Executive Producer
Matthew
Carney
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