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00:00In southern Italy, what is known as waste trafficking is wrecking havoc in the
00:07countryside surrounding Naples. Behind all of this, the Mafia, who have been
00:15poisoning their own land for over 40 years. An environmental disaster with
00:24dramatic consequences for the local population. Fighting against this
00:33scourge, green cops are using all available resources.
00:44These men are attempting to save this region nicknamed the land of fire because
00:49of the countless waste fires.
01:19We are in the suburbs of Naples. Orlando and Enrico are environmental police officers.
01:40Wearing plain clothes, they patrol the highway, a common location for people to dump and burn
01:45their trash.
01:52The green cops suspect that the driver of this white truck has caused this fire.
01:57They decide to tail him.
02:15Just a few meters away, the driver has got out of his truck. He is behaving strangely.
02:27He is getting ready to brazenly throw garbage onto the road. The cops have just one shot at
02:34catching this guy in the act.
02:41But he is backtracking.
02:47It's a game of cat-and-mouse that has been going on for years.
02:49It's a game of cat-and-mouse that has been going on for years.
02:54Every day, this plain-clothed police unit hope to catch these criminals in the act. But
02:57they aren't like the others.
03:01They call them eco-criminals around here.
03:02It's a game of cat-and-mouse that has been going on for years.
03:16Every day, this plain-clothed police unit hope to catch these criminals in the act. But
03:20they aren't like the others. They call them eco-criminals around here.
03:26These green cops have lost the battle today, but the war continues. They are fighting a
03:41huge epidemic.
03:43They are fighting.
03:44They are fighting.
03:45They are fighting.
03:46They are fighting.
03:47They are fighting.
03:48They are fighting.
03:49They are fighting.
03:50They are fighting.
03:51They are fighting.
03:52That land is Campania.
03:56Sitting below Mount Vesuvius, Romans used to call this Campania Felix in ancient times.
04:02This was highly fertile land.
04:04This region in southern Italy has always been an environmental oasis. But now, it is threatened
04:11by a new type of organized crime.
04:15Naples is the region's capital.
04:18This coastal city is the third largest in Italy, and one of the most densely populated
04:23in Europe.
04:26Thousands of tourists flock here every year to take advantage of La Dolce Vita, its incredible
04:31food, and its architecture.
04:34But behind this facade, Naples has a completely different side. Gomorrah, a series with international
04:41success, depicted the filthiness of this decrepit suburb corrupted by the Mafia.
04:47Our investigation will take us further out these squalid suburbs, into the countryside inside
04:52the eco-mafia territory, a rural mafia lesser known to the general public.
04:57Their business? Dispose of industrial waste at a fraction of the price compared to the legal
05:02sector.
05:03They have mastered their services and gain large profits.
05:06An enormous amount of waste is dumped, buried, or burned every year by both the Camorrah
05:12and petty criminals.
05:17While this was previously fertile land, it has now become the land of fire.
05:26We are at the headquarters of the Environmental Police in Naples.
05:31This is the base for officers fighting the eco-trafficking business.
05:35Emanuele has been investigating an illegal dump near the railroads for over a month.
05:41Today, him and his partner Giuseppe will be heading into the field for a sensitive operation.
05:54The mission involves concealing hidden cameras to monitor the traffic from afar.
05:58and above all, collecting evidence.
06:01This area under the high-speed train track is their hunting ground.
06:31It is forbidden for members of the public to trespass here.
06:53Invisible from afar, huge quantities of all kinds of waste have been dumped here, such
06:59as barrels, textiles and tires.
07:09This mission is critical to the next stage of the investigation.
07:13There is no room for error for the Green Cops.
07:20It is now a race against time.
07:34The criminals could come back at any moment and blow the entire operation.
07:49They use the train to hide from the view, and we use the train to hide from them.
08:05And we use the train to hide from them.
08:15The camera with an autonomous battery that we use, it takes about a week.
08:21A week we can do it.
08:23It works?
08:24Ok.
08:25It works?
08:26Ok.
08:27Ok.
08:28Ok.
08:29Ok.
08:30Ok.
08:31Ok.
08:32Ok.
08:33I'm going to find it here.
08:35Ok.
08:36the place is here, in one place we are almost sure, here is evident what they do, they find an area,
08:45they are versed by migliaia of cubic meters of demolition and amiant, then they bring
08:52many cubic meters of land and they cover everything, we control the other site,
08:58where we put the telecamera and begin to place, here is good,
09:02in a few days these men will see what the camera has caught, it's a job that requires not only patience but
09:25also faith,
09:27it's a routine, but you always do it with the same passion because you hope that what you do
09:33can save the little environment that you have left and do it for your children, for your grandparents.
09:46Two billion tons of urban waste are created worldwide every year, according to the most recent report by the World Bank,
09:53this number could reach three billion by 2050.
09:59Dumping trash is the most cruel and irreversible action that we can do to destroy nature.
10:0360-year-old Enzo Tosti is not your average resident. For over 30 years this militant environmentalist has been standing up for his region and fighting against
10:08eco-trafficking.
10:14the work of re-structuring,
10:16inestate,
10:18botanical and solvent.
10:2160-year-old Enzo Tosti is not your average resident.
10:27For over 30 years, this militant environmentalist
10:30has been standing up for his region
10:32and fighting against eco-trafficking.
10:34We, obviously,
10:36are a number of associations
10:38that, in some way,
10:40are a bit like the sentinelle of these territories.
10:43This site was called Euro-Compost.
10:50It was born in the early 2000s
10:54and they produced biological compost.
10:58In 2008,
11:00there was an amazing smoke
11:04and then it started to see
11:07that they added
11:10of industrial industrial plants.
11:15There was an official ordinance
11:17that closed this place
11:20and then it became a sversatoio
11:23in the open sky.
11:25in the surrounding countryside.
11:27Every year,
11:28this trash goes up in smoke
11:29to make way for more.
11:31An illegal dump like thousands of others
11:34in the surrounding countryside.
11:35Every year,
11:36this trash goes up in smoke
11:38to make way for more.
11:40This is the result of
11:43tonnellate,
11:44tonnellate,
11:45quintali di rifiuti
11:46pericolosi
11:47of course,
11:48of course,
11:49of course,
11:50of course.
11:51It was put here
11:52to one side.
11:53You see,
11:54the color of the sky
11:55is not the real
11:56color of the ground.
11:57It's the color of the combustible,
11:58the bruciated.
11:59And this thing here
12:01is very dangerous
12:02because
12:03when there is an incendio,
12:05the elements inquinant
12:07are in the air,
12:09but the rest
12:11are in the combustible.
12:12And what remains
12:13in the combustible,
12:14the rains,
12:15and they're filtering
12:16into the combustible,
12:17they take them down
12:18until they reach the fence.
12:43Back in Naples,
12:45we are at the headquarters
12:47of the Environmental Police Force.
12:49Let's see.
12:52Let me see.
12:54Let me see.
12:55Major Rosa Cadella
12:57manages all of the operations
12:59on illegal waste trafficking.
13:01What area are we here?
13:03This area.
13:05This morning,
13:06she's analyzing the footage
13:07from the surveillance cameras
13:08that were placed
13:09a few days ago
13:10with Emanuele.
13:11We can understand
13:12how to do these activities?
13:14Yes, because we have
13:15other visuals.
13:16More or less?
13:19We have five people.
13:22Five people.
13:23So,
13:24three cameras
13:25that enter and
13:26enter and enter
13:27and enter and
13:28enter?
13:29The autist of the palace
13:30and one who is here
13:31with an auto
13:32that coordinate the activities.
13:33Okay, okay.
13:34Do we know where it comes?
13:35Do we know where it comes?
13:36Do we know where it comes?
13:37Do we know where it comes?
13:38There are still colleagues
13:39out there
13:40who are following us.
13:41They are behind us.
13:42They are behind us.
13:43But,
13:44more or less,
13:45maybe demolition
13:46and missties
13:47with the waste?
13:48Yes, certainly.
13:49Because the waste waste
13:50are hidden everywhere.
13:51This footage shows the trucks
13:54doing round trips
13:55day and night to dump
13:56tons of waste
13:57before covering it up.
13:58An illegal construction site
14:03that has been established
14:04in only a few days.
14:05But where is this trash
14:07coming from?
14:08Why is trafficking
14:09it such a profitable
14:10business for the mafia?
14:11Imagine that
14:12the waste waste
14:13according to the
14:17normative
14:18has very high costs
14:19so any entrepreneur
14:20that is from the South
14:21or the North
14:22of the Italy
14:23has all the interest
14:24to save
14:25the waste waste
14:26in the regular waste
14:27and the waste waste
14:28in the legal waste.
14:29Obviously,
14:30a waste waste
14:31of a waste
14:32of a waste
14:33has a very high cost
14:34than a waste waste
14:35of waste waste
14:36in the waste.
14:37So,
14:38if I am an entrepreneur
14:39of the North
14:40I can save
14:42the cost of 50%
14:44and for me
14:45everything is worth it.
14:46If I have to
14:47to break the waste
14:48of waste waste
14:49of waste
14:50that is dangerous
14:51and I pay a tonnella
14:52of 200€
14:53then
14:54with a
14:55uninsultment
14:56not regular
14:57illegal
14:58and illegal
14:59I can get
15:0080%
15:01or 90%
15:02or 100%.
15:03So,
15:04we can see
15:05that there is
15:06a huge savings
15:07for the entrepreneur.
15:08Every year
15:09there are over 135 million tons of industrial waste produced in Italy. Four times more than
15:16standard household waste. So how can the green cops tackle such powerful criminal activity?
15:22To anticipate the opposition's next move, you must be cunning, sometimes even using the most basic of
15:28techniques.
15:58This is our objective.
16:01The trafficking of illegal food can last several months for the simple fact that we need to understand
16:09all the actors involved, all the subjects involved in the trafficking, which go from the employer
16:14that smaltes regularly, from the intermediary that puts in contact with the employer
16:21and the criminality of the place, to the transportor, who, of course, will put their own means
16:28to transport the waste, or even to another company that will even enter into the waste.
16:36A spying operation always begins with a field investigation. In this industrial zone, the
16:47green cops suspect that a factory is not meeting regulations.
16:51We find officers Orlando and Enrico here.
17:06This vehicle is involved in a traffic of the waste, which is, let's say, from the furt
17:13of the rame cables, from the lines of the state roads.
17:19Ah, dude.
17:29By following this truck's journey,
17:31the officers hope to learn more about this plant and its trafficking.
17:49This tailing can last anywhere between 10 minutes to an hour,
18:08but this time, the officers quickly discover the truck's destination.
18:19Here they have a deposit,
18:25where they attend tomorrow to start.
18:29Tomorrow?
18:30Yes, they continue tomorrow morning with another truck
18:34that will follow up to the destination.
18:42When we have collected all the different paths,
18:47we do the construction of the whole leader,
18:52how the traffic has managed,
18:55they do an annotation,
18:57and they send it to the magistrate.
19:04Around 100.000 tons of waste is transported illegally every year in Italy,
19:09an industry worth around 4 billion euros.
19:12Over the past year, the authorities have seized over 4 million tons of waste,
19:17the equivalent of 180,000 trucks.
19:20But how did we get here?
19:22How was the Ecomafia founded?
19:26This man is the national figurehead for the fight against waste trafficking.
19:30General Sergio Costa has led the most large-scale investigations in this field,
19:36a career that has led to his appointment as Minister of the Environment last June.
19:42General Sergio Costa,
19:44Minister of Environment and Protection of the territory and the sea.
19:49I swear to be faithful to the Republic.
19:52In the 1970s, the protection of the environment was not intended in the Code.
19:58There was no law that would protect the environment.
20:02And not only the environment, but the management of the waste.
20:07And therefore, he could not intervene.
20:09In 2015, thanks to the confession of a next mafia member,
20:13the general made the biggest discovery of his career.
20:16For example, in this moment, a lot of waste,
20:19in this moment, a lot of waste,
20:21more large than Europe,
20:23for volume and also for superficial extension.
20:27I have found a lot of waste,
20:29about 18, 20, 22, 12, 14, 8,
20:35a lot of waste,
20:36so that it is the most cruel and the more easy in the environment.
20:39And the more easy in mind,
20:40the more simple way.
20:44That is to use or to use a place left,
20:48where there are, for example,
20:51that way,
20:52that haven't used to use,
20:54that haven't used,
20:55so that there are not used,
20:56that have not used,
20:58that have not used,
20:59that have not used,
21:01but there are not used,
21:03that have not used,
21:04to excavate a hole in order to be able to throw these
21:10refuse.
21:11I now have a piece of crystallized solvent
21:16that emerged in 4 meters of depth.
21:18It's obvious that this underground could not be there.
21:22Even if the anti-trafficking laws didn't exist at this time,
21:25why did the mafia take over this region?
21:28In Campania, in particular,
21:30we have two types of organized criminalities.
21:33I clan napoletani are already at the time of the clan
21:38that lived in the city,
21:40that viaggiano through criminal systems
21:45like the destruction, the gestion of the prostitution,
21:48the pizza,
21:52a mechanism more related to the metropolitan life.
21:57In that time, at least,
21:59the clan of Casalesi was more terrible,
22:02more accustomed to the property,
22:05more close to the criminal system of the Cosa Nostra,
22:08so that the system siciliano,
22:09more gestor of the territory,
22:11more imprenditor,
22:12more legato to the property terriere.
22:16Having the opportunity to control them in a militarily
22:20very well supported that territory,
22:23north of Napoli and south of the province of Caserta,
22:26that we have known as the Campania Felix,
22:33which is the Campania Fertile,
22:34is made of a terrain in a pianura,
22:36which is a terrain more or less in a pianura,
22:38but also because in a terrain porous,
22:41in a pianura,
22:41comfortable from the point of view geographic,
22:45it was easy to excavate,
22:47it was also easy to hide and hide and hide.
22:51We are talking about the 70's,
22:53then this mechanism was better built,
22:57even more built in terms of criminal justice,
22:59and even more organized,
23:01to become a big know-how
23:04to even export it in other parts of the country.
23:07The Casalesi are known
23:09to have the biggest know-how
23:11on the national and international traffic.
23:19It all began in Casal di Principe.
23:22This town in northern Naples,
23:23with a population of 20,000,
23:26is the historical stronghold for the Casalesi family,
23:29the most powerful clan in the Camorra.
23:33The authorities estimate that they are behind
23:35more than 600 homicides between 1985 and 2004.
23:39They've established their power through terror and corruption.
23:43Since the 1970's,
23:45this organization has made its mark in the region
23:47like no other before it.
23:48It has taken over the agriculture market,
23:51construction sites,
23:52and now has a monopoly on extortion and drugs.
23:56To track the waste trafficking route,
23:58we find ourselves on the Ferrara coast,
24:01600 kilometers from Naples,
24:03in the northern peninsula.
24:05This is where we met this man.
24:07For safety reasons,
24:09he doesn't want us to film his face.
24:11I was I to introduce the Casalesi
24:14in the business of the refiuti.
24:15Nunzio is the former clan leader.
24:19Arrested and sentenced in 1992,
24:22he decided to collaborate with the police.
24:25When he left prison,
24:26he wrote a book denouncing corruption in the system.
24:28We had a ton of tons of defiuti in all of the Italy.
24:33We have corrupted politicians,
24:34politicians,
24:35imprenditors.
24:37After that I have closed my penalty,
24:39I made the name of all the politicians and industrials
24:43involved in this system.
24:46We camorristi were simple executors.
24:51They were the people who were the real motives.
24:56I began to make the camorristi with the Casalesi family,
24:59not Casalesi,
24:59no,
25:00because the Casalesi didn't exist.
25:01I was a Petana Giuseppe,
25:02a very important boss,
25:04who commanded Caserta and Napoli,
25:06with the bus and clandestines.
25:07Then I began to make the drugs,
25:09drugs to international level.
25:11Then I had to know the refiuti.
25:13I knew the refiuti.
25:15I realized that the refiuti
25:16were the most important than the drug,
25:17because you could earn more
25:19And it was nothing, nothing, nothing, even verbal.
25:23I met Scobar, and that's how I started to do cocaine.
25:27We don't have any problems with drugs.
25:30This is what I want, and I can do the forniture in the entire Campania, in Lazio.
25:35It was a strong trust with him.
25:38He was able to double 25 million a kilo,
25:41because then I gave it to 45-50.
25:44It was just a few.
25:46You have to think about me, in my organization,
25:50we brought 20-25 cars a day.
25:5425 cars a day, in my quota,
25:56without having a car.
25:58At home, it was 3-7 million a day.
26:03This was only with the urban cars,
26:07and then there was a talk about the toxic cars,
26:11which were paid very much.
26:13I had a bus ride for 4 months,
26:17and it was about 250-300 million a day.
26:21Without doing anything, and without risking anything.
26:25This was the difference between drugs and the refuse.
26:29That's why I abandoned drugs,
26:31and I started to refuse.
26:33At 70 years old, Nanzio is a reformed man,
26:37but above all, an angry one.
26:39Particularly with the politicians who, according to him,
26:42know everything and do nothing about it.
26:45He regrets his mafioso past today.
26:48As a favor to us, he agreed to return to the scene of the crime,
27:02a few kilometers from Ferrara.
27:04Far from the land of fire, the north hasn't been spared by the Ecomafia's devastation.
27:16For years, the Kimora exploited every single plot of land.
27:22What's incredible is that Nanzio remembers all of the areas where he illegally dumped this waste.
27:50This is a mixture between inertes and the laborers.
27:58You see, the earth doesn't leak.
28:02The oil has dried up.
28:04The oil has dried up.
28:06The oil has dried up.
28:08This is even asphalt.
28:11This is mixed with inertes.
28:15And the oil has been released.
28:17We call it stabilized.
28:19We are more at the construction plant.
28:22This is the field of construction.
28:24This is not the of earth.
28:26Here we go.
28:50Here we go.
28:51Right next to the station, this abandoned construction site in the city centre is located in a huge open-air dump.
29:06According to Nunzio, whole areas of the city have been built on buried trash.
29:21It's a river near the river.
29:23Who came here was our autist.
29:25Our syndication came here.
29:27There was a person who gave you the ticket to enter.
29:31He paid for it.
29:33It's like if he was the patron.
29:35If you want to take it here, you have to give it to me.
29:37This is the most abusive route of Ferrara.
29:41For me, the reflux was gold.
29:44I've always said it.
29:46It's gold and politics are gold.
29:50People are still convinced that all this stuff has done with the Camorra.
29:55And they still have to understand that the Camorra can't do without it.
30:11Although eco-criminals have been able to carry out these activities without difficulty in the past,
30:16there are now strict tariffs in place for waste trafficking.
30:25A few weeks after the spying operation near the railway tracks,
30:28the eco-traffickers were identified by the green cops.
30:31At 6 in the morning, the brigade was about to arrest the gangleader
30:33because we could see that he was illegally dumping waste.
30:36No one needs to move, one needs to be a father, and one needs to be a precaution.
30:40Well, if you divide, there could be children, the mother of the child with children, so maybe a little bit more.
30:47At six in the morning, the brigade was about to arrest the gang leader because we could see that he was illegally dumping waste.
30:54Residing in the suburbs of Naples, in a vulnerable area, the individual is already known to police.
31:00With a record of drug trafficking and weapons possession, he is considered dangerous.
31:07Four bosses are to be deployed for his arrest.
31:13Following a one-hour search of his home, the culprit was escorted by the gendarme without any resistance.
31:23After his trial, he faces up to six years in prison for an environmental disaster offence.
31:29As for his accomplices, they will be placed under house arrest.
31:33Since the system is prosecuting legal criminals, it is coming from a house arrest.
31:34How can you settle down?
31:35Yes.
31:36Where are you now?
31:37Can you settle down?
31:38I'll settle down a house.
31:39What is that?
31:40Can you settle down a house?
31:41She's moving.
31:42What is a house?
31:43Not a house.
31:44You're coming.
31:45Yes, not two.
31:46You're coming?
31:47Who's going to be.
31:48You're coming.
31:49I'm going to stop.
31:50You're coming.
31:52Back in the countryside, if the justice system is now prosecuting evil criminals, how can the state
31:58remedy all that has been committed in the past?
32:01In the land of fires, thousands of hectares of waste are still buried underground.
32:07To avoid growing crops on the landfill, the Regional Environmental Protection Agency,
32:12RPAC, regularly sends analysts to the field.
32:31Because if there is a radioactivity, the first to be exposed are our operators.
32:36Now we have a team of technicians who should operate the campion
32:41in the vicinity.
32:43Once they give us an ok, we will come to campion.
32:46All right?
32:48All right?
32:49All right.
32:50Okay.
32:51All right, Robbie.
32:53Hello?
32:54Let's go.
32:55Let's go?
32:59The ARPAC is conducting environmental experiments
33:03in order to identify agricultural land
33:05that must be used to the catch izolences
33:07to prevent contamination or even health.
33:14We are in system all the information that comes from these experiments.
33:17We are creating an database where we report the results of their analysis
33:21So, what parameters have been superated
33:24regarding the soil, water, and the vegetables.
33:28The samples that have been taken
33:30are sent to the Arpac Regional Laboratory for analysis.
33:37This is the chromatogram of a sample.
33:39Here are the analyses.
33:42It seems to be particularly dirty.
33:46There are the limits of the table for some metals.
33:50So, the berillium, the palm, and the zinc.
33:53For the palm and the zinc, we had the measurements
33:56of two and three times the table limits.
34:01There were also measurements of heavy carbohydrates
34:05and some of the aromatic carbohydrates.
34:08These studies conducted by Arpac cost the state
34:11more than one million euros a year.
34:13It's the price we pay to protect the population
34:16from the effects of the Ecomafia.
34:18And sometimes, there are dramatic consequences.
34:21I had a single child named Antonio.
34:25Antonio has gone away for almost 10 years
34:27for a cancer.
34:29My name is Marzia Caccioppoli.
34:32I'm one of the orphan mothers in the land of the fire.
34:36This is what remains of Antonio's camera.
34:40Since the death of her son five years ago,
34:44Marzia has now moved to the center of Naples.
34:47Before this, she was living in Casanovo,
34:50in the neighboring countryside.
34:52In her new apartment, she has recreated her son's bedroom
34:55in his memory.
34:56She visits this room every day as if time stood still.
35:03Marzia Caccioppoli
35:04These are our lives here with my husband.
35:10He had five to four years old.
35:13All of the beginning, when I lived in Casanovo,
35:18I believed to bring my son to a healthy place,
35:22near the camp.
35:24I did not think that going away from the historical center of Napoli
35:28I would be able to get me into a high risk territory.
35:32When I understood this,
35:34unfortunately, I found myself in the hospital with my son
35:38and I realized that Casal Nuovo was one of the communities
35:42called Terra dei Fuochi.
35:45I saw the children so sick in five years
35:48that we lost the calculation, the count.
35:50Last year, eight children aged between 7 months and 11 years old
35:54have died from cancer after only 20 days.
35:58All of them living in the land of fire like Marzia's son.
36:02We cannot die here in Campania
36:05as they die in other regions of Italy
36:08because we are the least industrialized region.
36:13We are an agroalimentary territory.
36:16And I'm talking to those industrialists
36:18who, sapientemente,
36:20ci hanno condannato a morte
36:22because the Camorra
36:23didn't know certainly
36:25the substance of the liquids
36:26that were entombated.
36:28But the institutions,
36:30the industrials,
36:31the chemicals
36:32knew what they were doing
36:34in the Terra dei Fuochi.
36:35They knew that they would have
36:37done the health of the citizens
36:40until they provoked the death.
36:42Because when they were entombated
36:44these barils
36:46they can scend them
36:48to the aquifers
36:50and if they have the aquifers
36:52they have the aquifers
36:54they have an entire population
36:56even if they don't drink
36:58the water of the forest
36:59but with that water
37:01you can wash the eyes
37:03you can wash the hands
37:04you can wash the hands
37:05you can wash the hands
37:06you can wash the hands
37:07you can wash the hands
37:08you have the skin
37:09in your blood
37:10your skin
37:11it's a biological damage
37:14which is impossible
37:17to have to calculate
37:18how vast it is
37:20it's very similar to your mother
37:22it almost comps you
37:24it's very similar to me
37:25and that's the same thing
37:26by my parents
37:28Despite many families' anger and lack of hope, citizens have taken it upon themselves to
37:41fight the Ego Mafia on their own turf.
37:44Their weapons, recreational drones.
37:56With his son and his friends, Vincenzo patrols the area every day to track the Ego criminals
38:01and assist the authorities.
38:26We have said that we should start doing something.
38:33What?
38:34We can do rounds in the car during the whole day, especially in the evening,
38:40and at least do what possible to not allow that a rogo may bruise in disturbance.
38:48We are able to avoid the rogo,
38:51and we have signs on our Facebook page, Volontaria Anti-Roghi Acerra.
38:56A friend of mine is denunciating a friend who is bruising the refuse.
39:02Or, thanks to our drone, which we turn around more times during the day.
39:13We bring them to the place, we alert the authorities.
39:18We often are forced to bring ourselves to the fire,
39:24because we don't know the area, we bring ourselves to the place.
39:28There are two, one.
39:31On the same place?
39:33Yes.
39:34Where?
39:35Oh, behind us.
39:36Behind us.
39:37Behind us?
39:38Yes.
39:39Yes.
39:40Look, there's a bit of dirt.
39:41Look, there's a bit of dirt.
39:42Look.
39:43Thanks to their drone, Vincenzo and his team have spotted smoke.
39:47It is yet to be known whether the source is a waste fire.
39:50Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh!
39:52What are you doing here?
39:53This is all in fuel.
39:54This is all in fuel.
39:55This is all in fuel.
39:56This is in fuel.
39:57Alessama, you can't keep it.
39:58Look under here.
39:59There's a bit of fuel.
40:00There's a bit of fuel.
40:01There's a bit of fuel.
40:02Look at this tube that's burning.
40:03It's not alone.
40:04It's only here.
40:05Hey, good afternoon.
40:07I'm Vincenzo Petrella from Volontaria Anti-Roghi Acerra.
40:10I wanted to show you the smoke column in Casolla, via Teatro.
40:18All right, sopra al pont del Cavalcavie, it's urgent,
40:27because practically they're bruciando refiuti and the air is respirable.
40:31We have a squadron, ok? Appena si libera, we send them.
40:34The villagers are now used to constant fires, powerless spectators of this environmental catastrophe,
40:51breathing in this toxic air on a daily basis.
40:55Dalle sette fino alle dieci, dieci e mezzo sono stati vicini e fuori.
41:00Alle dieci sono vicini e fuori.
41:02Hanno avvisato, sono venuti però troppo a pulso, non si poteva uscire dalla casa.
41:08Capita sempre nel centro, nel centro, nel centro, macchine rubate.
41:13Si risolve, questo non si risolve.
41:16Ma non per noi che siamo insieme.
41:19I bambini.
41:20Questi bambini.
41:21Un po' più controllo, perché ci abbandono sempre qua.
41:30Illegal fires are an everyday occurrence during summer.
41:34The criminals are difficult to catch.
41:37In this CCTV footage from the Environment Police,
41:40we can see a man discreetly approaching a pile of trash.
41:44He sets it on fire and disappears in less than a minute.
41:48Why? To make space for even more garbage.
41:57At the Caserta Fire Station, there are a number of waste fire alerts.
42:02Vigili del Fuoco?
42:05Nel mese di giugno 2018 abbiamo avuto 58 interventi ascrivibili al rifiuto.
42:12Sono l'architetto Salvatore Longobardo, direttore vice dirigente dei Vigili del Fuoco di Caserta.
42:18L'incendio di un rifiuto può essere sicuramente pericoloso per l'ambiente e per le persone.
42:23La Regione Campania è intervenuta nell'attività di contrasto al fenomeno degli incendi e rifiuti,
42:30consentendo ai Vigili del Fuoco di poter utilizzare risorse aggiuntive.
42:36Attenzione, esce la terra dei fuoti in Marcianize, l'incendio rifiuti.
42:43Terra dei fuoti in Marcianize, l'incendio rifiuti.
42:48Quattro squadre, due dislocate nella provincia di Caserta e due dislocate nella provincia di Napoli,
42:57che hanno uno scopo specifico di intervenire prioritariamente sul fenomeno degli incendi rifiuti.
43:05The firefighters are only ten minutes away from the fire.
43:09The only information they have is that there is thick black smoke that is threatening a camp of travelers.
43:15At the scene, they see the sheer scale of damage.
43:23Four hectares of land is up in smoke.
43:45Three or four hours a day.
43:46Three or four hours a day.
43:48Three or four hours a day.
43:49Three or four hours a day.
43:50Abituarsi a questo non è facile.
43:51È il nostro lavoro e lo facciamo.
43:54Va bene, ma basta più con questi giornalisti.
43:57Non voglio che ci guardino tutti quanti che cosa hanno combinato.
44:00È soltanto vostra.
44:01Però a me non mi prenderei, capito?
44:02Gira di là.
44:03No, no, no, no.
44:06Gira di là.
44:11I don't want to talk about the journalists, I don't want to see everyone what they have said, it's just yours, but I don't want to take it, you understand?
44:20Go on!
44:22Go on!
44:52Go on!
45:22Last year, 110 waste treatment centers went up in flames in Italy.
45:28Like this one in Milan on October 15, 2018, the firefighters took two days to put out this extraordinarily large fire.
45:36The smell of plastic didn't go away for a week. This phenomenon is new to the authorities who can't yet measure the scale of it.
45:44The mafia aren't the only ones responsible for waste trafficking according to the green cops.
45:50Today, Rosa and her team are carrying out a surprise inspection of a private firm.
45:58They suspect that the business is failing to meet regulations.
46:04The government has a part ambiental, a part of it, which should be dismantled.
46:08It should be dismantled.
46:10The government has a part of it.
46:12The government has a part of it.
46:14The government has a part of it.
46:16The government has a part of it.
46:17The government has a part of it.
46:18And it needs to be treated like akalation, which should be treated very well.
46:20So, it should have a process of dismantling that is being proposed by the norm.
46:25It's not only in the world of organized погибly due to the state of the mafia.
46:30This boss is well known in the region.
46:45Every year, five municipalities use this privately owned business to treat 300 tons of waste.
46:52There are polyurethane foams, tires and plastic.
46:58This is the office?
47:01Yes.
47:02Okay.
47:03It gives us the camera view, the regulations for the treatment of the waste,
47:12how many dependents you have, the contracts you have with the various commissions,
47:19the transport companies, everything you have and everything you can show us.
47:24First, the officers do an official inspection to check all the business' contracts and permits.
47:31They then move into the warehouse to inspect the facilities.
47:46The waste is piled up at random, the air is unbreathable.
47:53And this must be in the middle of the mill.
47:57Look at this.
47:59This is where the mill takes something.
48:02It's fine.
48:07Look at this.
48:12These are all the effects of percolate.
48:15percolate is the residual liquid that comes from water that runs through waste,
48:19an extremely toxic and polluting substance.
48:22There is an EU catalog that gives code to every type of waste, the EWC, or European Waste Catalog.
48:43So the plant receives urban waste, which has the code 200301.
48:49This trash is then treated with machines, and its code becomes 191212.
48:56Then it is sent to a specialized factory.
48:59Nothing is lost.
49:13Everything is processed.
49:14All this business is doing is compressing the urban waste without applying any actual treatment that is required by law.
49:33As a result, they are simply changing the code of the waste without modifying its contents.
49:39Here is another one. Here is the gomme. Here are the gomme. Here are the gomme.
49:46Here are the gomme.
49:47If she makes a licefricate, the gomme is remove.
49:51What does she do here?
49:52Why does she do this?
49:53She doesn't make it wrong.
49:54I don't understand.
49:55She doesn't make it wrong.
49:56She doesn't make it wrong.
49:57I think it looks like the pressure.
49:58It's the same.
50:00There is absolutely no change in the sound.
50:04Look, the plastic.
50:06This is a…
50:07This is a…
50:08This is a…
50:09This is a…
50:10This is a box that is really closed.
50:11Look, this is a box that was not even opened.
50:13If you have changed the code, there is a refusal that could not be changed.
50:22In addition to the fraud, the green cops discover that the water drainage system is inefficient.
50:27Instead of flowing into the sewer, the percolate is ending up in the street and in the neighboring fields.
50:32Something the authorities would deem an unacceptable danger.
50:36Charged with non-compliance to the regulations, this business will receive a fine of 6,200 euros and will be under administrative closure for one month.
50:46Business can only start up again once the failures have been rectified.
50:50It is a long journey ahead to make the population aware of and respectful towards the environment around them.
51:10But some steps have already been taken.
51:13For over 25 years, the environmental organization, Le Gambiente, organizes trips out to clean up the countryside.
51:21The volunteers are getting younger and younger every year.
51:24People are starting to get the message.
51:26It involves the child and the person of the future,
51:31that is, the children, who are the most sensitive part of this problem,
51:35to respect the environment.
51:37Therefore, they create a first step for their future.
51:42Very good!
51:45The poverty of a territory is born from fear.
51:55So, it is not wanted, but caused by the population.
51:59However, when the same population is aware that this type of activity,
52:06these criminals, on their territory, has also determined an incidence on their health,
52:12that they are experiencing, in every case,
52:15that is caused by the threat to be carried out even if they are silent.
52:20Even if they are sitting on their own, they are not aware of.
52:22And then they are dying.
52:24And then they are dying.
52:25100.000 people in November 2013,
52:28they are experiencing the city of Napoli
52:30without bandages, without colors, without their own,
52:34but simply saying they are dying.
52:36They are dying.
52:38we want a clean environment, a family that can grow.
52:43This has meant a fierce and fierce attack
52:47to the organized criminal,
52:49because it didn't go to this omertat
52:52but became naked in front of the people.
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