[Music] while Italy's north is in the grips of a health emergency brought on by the coronavirus the south is confronting a crisis of its own a ruthless new mafia this kind of agira mafia is peculiar in this place sex drugs and people smuggling he's still scared of them not why would I be scared the Nigerians have arrived has the Italian mafia met its match non-support she ran on the more I escaped forward are the continual Eurovision [Music] 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 or a fire or an earthquake instead Costel vault ordinal has been the product of sheer neglect this is a lawless wasteland 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 do you think you were in the hands of the Mafia yes I was actually the answer the Mafia's Italian mafia or Nigerian meningioma feeis then journalist yes [Music] only two years ago joy Ezekiel was
just like these girls running for their lives when they see our camera [Music] on the only Road in and out of Castel will turn on their Madam's forced 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 I didn't lose money they ever changed my name that changed my name I was not bearing my name they changed everything so I was like living a life for someone else it wasn't me anymore I was at a shadow of myself just
like a living dead letter see a safe distance from Castel voltar know we made joy for lunch she's among the 80% of Nigerian women in Italy the UN says are trafficked by the Nigerian mafia it's the first time joy has told her story whenever this car came to took us to go 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 it was going to beat me up it was going to kill me there was nobody day but I can just come in
the car how much dough price three times five euros 10 euros did I always play it sometimes no there was no telephone don't show you it done don't [Music] we're from ABC Australia my name's Emma it's too dangerous for joy to return to Castel vault ordinal so another former prostitute agrees to go undercover to show how the Nigerian mafia controls the women at traffics to protect them we don't reveal their identities you're going to pay thirty five thousand euro and you don't know how you'll pay this young woman says her madam is demanding nearly sixty
thousand dollars before she'll set her free all right I was one like you before I was deceived like him you sent the money to 9gr do you take any oath Sweden yes oh oh did you we call it or did you you so either your mother used to say that that was if you don't know how money you would die 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 special maybe he doesn't know morphine I did it there was no part of my hair it's no private part my own trees and other things I've caught it and they use a foul but you can biscotti to the blow to my head and Amir acting these voodoo rights bond Nigerian women to secret and ruthless organized crime groups known by names like black axe Joseph end of Cortese our Brotherhood coming together fighting for
no reason just to have power because to have a good just to kill happy to kill well done Pete see anyone there is no PC not a PC there's no pity if you do misbehave or you if you're tired you can't watch anymore do yours bring your gun and shoot here the cursor Joy's dreams of la dolce vita started to sour shortly after she left her home in Benin City Nigeria to travel 4,000 kilometers through the Sahara to Libya and then on to Italy by boat in Libya she says she was raped by seven men
in one night in Italy her Nigerian madam showed no mercy because when I came out without her pregnant I remember seeing that I was actually pregnant and for months but she made me remove dates too so I was fostering with the pregnancy and with blood and everything you have to go to the streets was it a doctor oh is the doctor a home not in hospital in African man it's at his house does really do it and you had to go straight out to work [Music] la prostitution NK part a fundamental exists even a lead
on an internal enemy Giuliana so no avail T she served on a commander oh boy warm in e-commerce old our team Roberto Saviano has been in hiding for almost 13 years his book Gomorrah blew the lid on the operations of one of Italy's main mafia rings the Camorra now it wants him dead [Music] Roberto agreed to meet us in a secret location where he's protected by his security detail the Kimura is the presiding mafia power in Naples and in Castel vault ordinal he tells us how one of its clans is operating in tandem with the
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this place down it's now somewhere people go to hide almost half the town's population of nearly 50,000 are undocumented migrants la macchina Juliana Easter LA carconte Varma fruit and a few sodomy grant a remedy berry Pomodori fruit and Oh Owen Thoreau territory a booze evil cooperation 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 let's the Nigerian mafia base its European drugs and prostitution networks here and it takes a
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was a were younger young men African people they divided useless mule and now we are trying to we are seeing even women these eggs are like they can continue like 10 20 grams of cocaine highly concentrated in this in this stuff and for every person we cannot recognize like 30 40 eggs in the body so the total amount is like 400 5 500 grams of cocaine the body of this people because if only one of this egg Brooks the people can get getting overdose in some minutes it's very the risk is very high and a
lot of people died for this reason the hospital is the only site in Castel altitudinal 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 [Music] Vincenzo's Kevin is the hospital's owner when he refused the Mafia's demands they blew up his car Amir DiNunzio contributor and renewed rain on Paco Claire Caligiuri diversity rst supuesto territory affair Impala policia sequester Hidalgo a Mila said to me now though Sonoran ID audition Nicki was Otis Carter vincenzo takes us to what used to be his
favorite beach club he used to go swimming here with his family T sin T minute chat wonky adesso de la mafia need Ariana Leah [ __ ] is the effect so be noted that they don the con la pancha pair the Queen different intestinal afford his own OB noted la persona con con call peta con imitated in test mercy so no veramente tributes oh no a patent validity univille and vaulted three bothered vincenzo despairs that how the government has deserted this once promising part of the Italian Riviera all that prospers here now is the black
market the sprawling headquarters of Italy's anti-mafia Intelligence Agency the DIA sits just outside Rome it names the Nigerian mafia as a growing and violent scourge what sort of a threat does the Nigerian mafia poisonously doper diamo della criminal eita nigeria nepal llamo de mafia / k paramo de mafia / kiya alguna trata vision alamos italiana elder amento el centro de appurtenances la capacidad afar echo easy own Lohmann tacho a la salud reserve Potenza cuando see internal organization non suppose she ray tronic polymer the team of senior analysts and detectives who work here are exclusively dedicated
to hunting mafia and the Nigerian connection organized crime is now Italy's biggest enterprise worth even more than theater these investigators say the mafia generates income of two hundred and fifty billion dollars a year for Giuseppe govern Olli a Sicilian the fight against the Mafia is personal in the years that you've been the head of intelligence head of anti-mafia have you ever felt discouraged by the enormity of the task no it's annoying to see on much Ebola energy ax y Bhutto la fortuna differente grander query believe of Herrera PA rappa condo so no party Turin periodo
vichara hemos total Estrada passione journa palermo cuando la gente de sequester me de la patria la cara kappa far above co co sonali lower director : Allah keeps a photo on his desk of himself as a nine year old he's with the local police chief and and he idolized as a child shortly after this moment was captured the policeman was killed by the Mafia blown up in a car bomb attack [Music] director gaveta Nala 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 [Music] on Palermo's waterfront an iconic image boldly remembers to 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 nella quarter a papillary di Palermo dovey questo tipo di criminal type resent a a determine otto incapable ney confront ET questa personas de parte de appurtenant a la Movida Lana [Music] Palermo's boleros street market full of color 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 new arrivals from Africa who aren't granted asylum a drawn to bolero to eke out a living in the shadow economy they're easy prey for mafia recruiters 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 he agreed to talk to us only if we changed his voice I was cooking drugs for them cooking it's called crack crack cocaine I feel pressure because I don't have any job to do some people who know me they are calling me to do it for them I refuse because I don't want to do it again [Music] 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 were they
African or Italian it was always an Italian as a foreigner you don't get to commit high crimes like he was born here it's his country authorities say black acts knock into Bella row during boat arrivals in the 80s and 90s causa Nostra has now struck an unholy alliance with the Nigerians charging them pizza protection money to operate on Casa Nostra land [Music] mafiosi italiani agenda : altissima in DJ de pareja la cita para tener el respeto significa que a no dot o una Pavan tato la possibility' DSS Chitauri una guar Misurata Valenza perkily to SEMA
suriname con el delito messy miss hora con la capacity' asprinio Lanza in theory an african bolero resident agreed to help us reveal the nigerian mafias operations but only if we keep his identity secret he takes a hidden camera into one of the area's 30 or so brothels [Music] 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 45 no the d50 give me 30 me come come [Music] when Nigerians sex workers are not in Palomas connection houses their Madam's forced
them onto the streets we're cutting through a park on the outskirts of Palermo it's as you can see enormous it's called La Favorita and it is a favorite haunt of local men looking for sex the price of sex with these trafficked women is less than $10 it can take them years to pay off their Madam's how have you managed to distinguish this as mafia activity as opposed to any other sort of crime per Cassano or tonight's arte a non troppo enode LEC Klepper individual elements yoni Paris Imperial no mod Minister of Defense in Italia pension
poor we tracked down the man the day I I refers to as the Nigerian mafias Minister of Defense he's 27 year old mohamed abu bakr he was held in custody for three years on charges of being a black acts ringleader I was accused by both blacas I never I never had ain't about lockers I don't know in Teva blockers I was I just accused foreign correspondent was given rare access to film inside Palermo's city court where Mohammed 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 sequester car was he for a Jewish sake Western soldier that lovely are sequestered subjected it to Ramadi formed at all 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 defense lawyer Cinzia pecker ro is adamant the whole court process is a sham chuchi government agency la magia palermo la mafia Giuliana / kill this little
yani Asoka sovaldi era la mafia oliveira 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 DiGiacomo discussing just that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] back in safe territory an hour away from Castel vault or nor joy Ezekiel is enjoying her new life making and selling African home wares she's working with a group of nuns who rescued 600 trafficked women in the region after spending 12 harrowing months as a sex slave joy
reported her Nigerian captors to police [Music] 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 newly teen I mean that makes me happy is that I'm free today it's behind me now even is sometimes I know my whenever I go to bed every difficult to sleep but I just let it go like that goes on it has to that goes on [Music] what are your dreams joy my dreams in life is happiness privilege
or don't get of pass through such kind of experience to have them out to give them courage and hope for the future [Music] one man who will never be free from the Mafia is Roberto Saviano it okay same party for seeing 50 so when you tan Tedesco for me that was to Giardina stem from poor strong I know Nagin is active in equal overall is trauma 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 por una bolita sap evo
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