Una storia misteriosa fatta di uomini, di parole e di suoni che sembrano venire da un altro mondo, un mondo arcaico e violento, oscuro e silenzioso. Potrebbe essere la storia di una setta esoterica, fatta di segreti, di regole, di gradi dai nomi suggestivi come “Supremo”, “Santa”o “Vangelo”.
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00:03:29The voice
00:03:30The voice is that of a distinguished and elegant man who calls himself Mr. Bianchi, or at least he says his name is
00:03:37Like this
00:03:40Mr. Bianchi is sitting in a small living room in the headquarters of a company in Lucernate di Ro, in the province of
00:03:45Milan and he's talking to one of the company's managers. They're alone. The secretary just arrived, she brought the
00:03:52coffee and then left because the manager asked him to leave them alone.
00:04:03In reality they are not alone, outside in another room there is a captain of the Carabinieri of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate
00:04:11from Reggio Calabria with his men who are intercepting everything, they are videotaping it word for word.
00:04:37Because Mr. Bianchi is not an ordinary businessman who came to discuss work.
00:04:46He is a member of the Piromalli mafia gang and he came to that company to ask for a contribution, as the
00:04:51call him.
00:05:01The company deals with imports and he wants a dollar and a half for every container that is landed in the
00:05:07port of Gioia Tauro.
00:05:10We are there, says Mr. Bianchi. We live there. We have the past, the present, and the future.
00:05:17This, says the voice. We have the past, the present, and the future. Let us remember it.
00:05:22The third element to tell our story is a man.
00:05:39He is a man of almost 70 years old, a pensioner, because since 1982 he has regularly received a civil invalidity pension as
00:05:47forest meadow, 520 euros per month.
00:05:53They also assigned him a council house in Africo, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the town where he is
00:05:58born.
00:05:59But that man doesn't live there. He occasionally lives in a farmhouse in Santa Venere, a remote mountain in the heart of the
00:06:05of Sprumonte.
00:06:06It is there that the Carabinieri of the ROS of Reggio Calabria went to pick him up on February 18, 2004 and
00:06:12they arrest.
00:06:28Because that man isn't just a 70-year-old pensioner. He's a boss of the Andrangheta, Calabria's organized crime syndicate.
00:06:35He's the boss of Africo. His name is Giuseppe Morabito, known as Utiradritto, and he's been on the run for 12 years.
00:06:44Giuseppe Morabito, known as Utiradritto, is important. His story is the story of the Andrangheta, the past, the present and the
00:06:51future.
00:06:52Andrangheta is a mysterious word, almost unpronounceable, so strange and so harsh, truncated at the beginning by an apostrophe.
00:06:59It is not a simple and well-known word, like Cosa Nostra or Camorra.
00:07:03It doesn't even sound like the name of a criminal organization, it sounds more like the name of a sect.
00:07:12Andrangheta. An archaic word, from an unknown language, one of those you might find in an initiation ritual.
00:07:20It's not even clear what it means or where it comes from.
00:07:23Perhaps from the Greek andranghetos, meaning brave man.
00:07:27Or from andranghetendra, a verse that accompanied the tarantella.
00:07:30And who invented it? Perhaps it was invented in the mid-fourteenth century by three Spanish knights, Osso, Mastrosso, and Carcagnosso.
00:07:38And it wasn't even called that at first. It was called Picciotteria, honored society, Montalbano family.
00:07:44Whatever it is, in reality, the 'ndrangheta was born in the mid-nineteenth century.
00:07:48And it was born for the same reason that the Camorra was born in Naples and the Cosa Nostra in Sicily.
00:07:53Filling a hole left open by the State, exploiting a situation of extreme degradation and poverty.
00:07:58The 'Ndrangheta assumes two fundamental social roles.
00:08:01A first role is that of defending the poor people.
00:08:06Paradoxically, he was able to provide answers that the State was unable to provide.
00:08:10This system, this mechanism, the 'Ndrangheta will continue to have for a long time to come.
00:08:16On the other hand, it has a function of mediating conflicts, conflicts that are difficult to resolve.
00:08:23Let's think, for example, of conflicts of honor.
00:08:27I noticed how in those years the 'ndrangheta compared, for example, to a young man who threatened a girl.
00:08:36That girl didn't want it.
00:08:38That girl's parents didn't want that marriage.
00:08:41That girl's father turned to the policeman of the time.
00:08:44What could the policeman do about that young man?
00:08:47But if that parent turned to an 'ndranghetista and the 'ndranghetista called the young man, that girl would not have
00:08:54most watched.
00:08:56It was a function of protecting the girls' honor.
00:08:59In reality, let's be clear, it was a system of control of society.
00:09:04The 'Ndrangheta is made up of small family groups called ndrine.
00:09:10Families, not groups of belonging like those of Cosa Nostra, which take their name from the place where they are located
00:09:15and are made up of affiliates from various backgrounds.
00:09:18Registered families, made up of blood relatives, real families.
00:09:22Two or three families, two or three 'ndrine, who are found in the same place, in Africa, in Platì or in
00:09:27San Luca, form an entity called local.
00:09:46In the 'ndrine, in the local ones, there are the 'ndranghettisti, who have various ranks, defined hierarchically.
00:09:52Inside the place there is the local chief, who is the one who has the power of life and
00:09:58death above all,
00:09:59the accountant, who is the minister of the economy, the one who pays the lawyers, the one who thinks about the family members
00:10:10of the prisoners,
00:10:12the one who manages the money, the proceeds of illegal activities.
00:10:17Then we have crime, which is the minister of war, the minister of defense,
00:10:22who naturally organizes the murders, the methods of the murders, and the defense of the premises when it is attacked.
00:10:30Before joining the 'ndrangheta, one is honored to have contrasts.
00:10:34Being contrasti onorati therefore is not a subject affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta, we could say a facilitator.
00:10:42To join the 'Ndrangheta there is an initiation ritual, just like in secret societies, or rather, in esoteric sects.
00:11:03The aspiring 'ndrangheta, the honored contrast, is taken to a place named after the three Spanish knights.
00:11:16At least seven members of the 'ndrangheta introduced him, and one of them vouched for him with his life.
00:11:28They are all arranged in a horseshoe shape, a circle is called formed.
00:11:33They are all unarmed, except the local chief, and all hold their arms outstretched, except one, the picciotto of the day,
00:11:39who can move and search everyone else.
00:11:47Then the ritual begins.
00:11:49The name of the Archangel Gabriel is from Saint Elizabeth.
00:11:52Before family, parents, sisters, brothers, comes the honor of society.
00:11:57And what is society?
00:12:09A ball of blood that goes around the world, hot as fire, cold as ice and humble as
00:12:15silk.
00:12:16And what is the affiliate?
00:12:17A lion bound with a chain of 24 links and 25 rings.
00:12:29And how much is it worth?
00:12:30As a golden feather is moved in the wind.
00:12:32The affiliate swears that he will have no dealings with anyone wearing a uniform or toga.
00:12:38A man of the state, a policeman, a priest, a magistrate.
00:12:41Anyone who has sworn allegiance to anything other than the 'Ndrangheta.
00:12:47Finally, the local leader carves a cross on the thumb of the affiliate's left hand.
00:12:55He drops a few drops of blood on an image of St. Michael the Archangel, cuts off his head and burns it.
00:13:06It has a significant name, the rite of affiliation to the 'Ndrangheta.
00:13:10It's called baptism and it lasts a lifetime.
00:13:13So you want to stand out, you want to be someone.
00:13:15So this leads you to affiliate, to show that you are not afraid of anyone and you do whatever
00:13:23What.
00:13:24Then they start as they begin.
00:13:28One of the many ways to begin to be part of this world is with a few trips to the north.
00:13:34You take the train and bring some packages.
00:13:37That's when your first few pennies arrive.
00:13:40And so you do it and you continue.
00:13:42Until you enter the world you too start doing something, always supervised.
00:13:49And then you begin the ascent.
00:13:52Africo is a small village on the Spromonte.
00:13:54A cluster of gray, green, and yellow houses
00:13:57which are packed together like a military camp along highway 106.
00:14:01As Corrado Stajano defines it in a beautiful book which is precisely that name.
00:14:05Africa is a town of 3,500 inhabitants that was quickly rebuilt on the sea after a flood in 1951.
00:14:18He destroyed what was in the mountains.
00:14:36Poor, sun-baked, made up of almost new houses but already peeling or half-finished,
00:14:41with walls of perforated tiles without matching.
00:14:45It was here that Giuseppe Morabito, known as Peppe, joined the 'Ndrangheta in the 1950s.
00:14:51Young Peppe is about 20 years old and is a very quick and determined guy.
00:14:55In Africa, the country where he lives, there is a local made up of endrines
00:14:59of the Morabito, Bruzzaniti and Palamara families.
00:15:02Young Peppe has the skills and also the right connections because he is a family man.
00:15:07So he enters his andrina and from an honored contrast becomes Picciotto.
00:15:12The tiradritto, to tell the truth, was the father of Giuseppe Morabito, he was called tiradritto.
00:15:19Then he inherited it, this straight shooter shoots straight, that is, he has good aim.
00:15:25Morabito has no educational qualification, he is officially a forestry worker,
00:15:33Officially he is an uncultured man, but I said an extremely intelligent, extremely cunning man.
00:15:39Let us remember that man, the one we saw at the beginning.
00:15:42There is a man standing in the dark, always, day and night,
00:15:46who shivers with cold in winter and dies of heat in summer,
00:15:48exposed to the rain filtering through a thatched roof.
00:16:01How long has it been there?
00:16:02Day after day, week after week, month after month.
00:16:06How long? He doesn't know.
00:16:08He is tied to a chain and sleeps on the ground, in the dust, like an animal.
00:16:14He has a family, that man, a wife and children, but he can't see them.
00:16:20The only people he sees, or rather, he doesn't see,
00:16:23because when they meet her face covered by a hood,
00:16:26the only people who come into contact with him are to bring him food,
00:16:29They don't talk much, they don't open their mouths except to give him orders or threaten him.
00:16:36Let's go back to the Andrangheta.
00:16:38Saint Michael the Archangel, the ancient Spanish knights,
00:16:41The Andrangheta also has a sanctuary.
00:16:45It is that of the Madonna di Polsi, on the Spromonte,
00:16:49where every year, in September, for the feast of the Madonna,
00:16:52the local leaders meet to resolve problems and disputes.
00:16:56It really seems like a cult.
00:16:58It seems like something exaggerated and picturesque,
00:17:01but be careful, because the Andrangheta is not picturesque.
00:17:04The Andrangheta is ferocious.
00:17:06The Andrangheta kills.
00:17:07For example, there are feuds.
00:17:16The contrasts between the various endrines,
00:17:18quarrels between men of honor,
00:17:20the issues between the families who divide up the local affairs,
00:17:24they start with an insult and end in blood.
00:17:27And they continue, year after year, hitting everyone, relatives, friends, blood relatives.
00:17:32It's something tribal.
00:17:33We must continue to kill,
00:17:35until the last male in the family dies.
00:17:50Like the Seminara feud.
00:17:53Seminara is a small village of 3,500 inhabitants,
00:17:56at the foot of the Astromonte massif.
00:17:58Domenico Gioffre and Pietro Pellegrino are the leaders of the Seminara endrine.
00:18:02They argued over a contract for the highway construction work that is being built.
00:18:07At the exit of a bar,
00:18:08a man linked to the Pellegrino family
00:18:11offends one of the Gioffres.
00:18:13The guns come out and someone gets killed.
00:18:18The first.
00:18:19Seven deaths in eight months bloodied the streets of Seminara.
00:18:26Mr. Vincenzo Surace,
00:18:28Why was Rocco killed?
00:18:34I don't feel like talking.
00:18:37Don't you know anything?
00:18:39Yet he works here near the gas station.
00:18:42But is this where Peter Paul was struck?
00:18:46Lost, I have no victim.
00:18:47What?
00:18:48Lost!
00:18:49He doesn't know anything.
00:18:50Don't you know anything?
00:18:51He doesn't know anything.
00:18:52But are there any signs of blows here?
00:18:54I know nothing if he doesn't know.
00:18:57Cimino feud,
00:18:58Ibarillaro against Reale.
00:19:00Thirty dead.
00:19:06San Luca Feud.
00:19:07A carnival prank causes a conflict between the Andrines to erupt.
00:19:11Seven dead.
00:19:18Cittanova feud,
00:19:19Motticella feud.
00:19:20One of the latest is the Feud of Tauria Nova,
00:19:2317,000 inhabitants,
00:19:24in the heart of the Gioia Tauro plain.
00:19:25On one side, the indrine of the Zagari, the Avignone, the Giovinazzo and the Viola.
00:19:30On the other, those of Asciutto and Lampo.
00:19:3312 deaths in 15 days.
00:19:53In May 1991,
00:19:55Rocco Zagari
00:19:56he's getting his beard shaved by the barber,
00:19:58when a killer nails him to the chair
00:20:00with his face still soapy with foam.
00:20:13The next day, revenge.
00:20:15Four dead.
00:20:16Among them is a delicatessen owner named Giuseppe Grimaldi.
00:20:31One of the killers takes the butcher's knife
00:20:33and cuts off his head.
00:20:35Then he throws it in the air in the middle of the street
00:20:37and the others enjoy shooting.
00:20:40We are outdoors,
00:20:41a stone's throw from the town square
00:20:42and there are at least 20 people in petrified
00:20:45who look at that severed head
00:20:47flying through the air hit by bullets.
00:20:49It looks like a movie.
00:20:50It looks like a Quentin Tarantino palpable movie
00:20:52or a horror film by Dario Argento.
00:20:55But it actually happened.
00:20:57It is true.
00:20:57From the 50s and 60s
00:20:59the Andrangheta is characterized as
00:21:01an organization that is beginning to take hold
00:21:04and to put down roots that are stronger than before.
00:21:07Meanwhile it begins to expand,
00:21:10begins to expand beyond its traditional bed
00:21:14at birth points.
00:21:16Then the first appearances begin
00:21:21both in the field of agriculture,
00:21:23therefore in agricultural intermediation,
00:21:25both in the field of indelicacy.
00:21:27In the mid-1960s
00:21:29it was decided to complete the Autostrada del Sole
00:21:31on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria stretch.
00:21:33Half of the investments earmarked for the highway
00:21:36are concentrated in this necessary work,
00:21:38essential for a beautiful region
00:21:40and worthy of greater fortune like Calabria.
00:21:43The problem is that the endrins arrive
00:21:46who demand protection money to allow the work to be carried out,
00:21:48otherwise, an accident can always happen.
00:21:50Then they pretend that men of the Andrangheta
00:21:52be hired as guards
00:21:54and then the subcontracting work
00:21:56they are assigned to companies linked to the endrine bosses.
00:22:07Some companies in the North don't have any problems.
00:22:10They make direct contact with the endrins,
00:22:13they agree on the price
00:22:14and include these costs in the contract,
00:22:16which in this way rises more and more,
00:22:18costing the state more and more.
00:22:20And the Salerno-Reggio Calabria remains what it is.
00:22:28Business is starting to get big
00:22:31and there is a lot of money.
00:22:32There are the contracts,
00:22:34there is a tax on various activities,
00:22:35there is cigarette smuggling,
00:22:37there are always feuds, murders and killings,
00:22:40but in the meantime the families that have established themselves
00:22:42in the Calabrian Andrangheta there are above all three.
00:22:45One is that of Don Mommo Piromalli,
00:22:47which dominates the Gioia Tauro plain.
00:22:56The second is that of Don Mico Tripodo,
00:22:58who governs Reggio Calabria.
00:23:00And the third is that of Don Antonio Macri,
00:23:02which is in Locride.
00:23:09Don Mommo Piromalli, Don Mico Tripodo, Don Antonio Macri.
00:23:13They are all characters from films or novels,
00:23:15that seem to have come out of the godfather,
00:23:17with the only difference that instead of speaking in Sicily,
00:23:19they speak in Calabrese.
00:23:21One day two brothers go to Don Mommo
00:23:23who have an inheritance problem.
00:23:25His father left him a donkey and a house
00:23:28and they don't know how to divide them.
00:23:29Don Mommo assigns the donkey to his brother who is a farmer
00:23:32and the house to that other one.
00:23:34Swift justice and without appeal.
00:23:36How can one appeal a sentence by Don Mommo Piromalli?
00:23:44There is a file on Don Mico Tripodo of more than a thousand pages,
00:23:47in which his activities are defined as true works of art of the underworld.
00:23:57But the real godfather, the one from the movies, is Don Antonio Macri.
00:24:03Uzzintoni, Uncle Antonio as they call him,
00:24:05has contacts with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra
00:24:07and relations with the United States, Canada, and Australia.
00:24:11Its activities range from agriculture to cigarette smuggling,
00:24:15up to the banks, to the contracts,
00:24:17to the hiring of staff in public structures.
00:24:20Uncle Antonio doesn't like kidnappings
00:24:22and he doesn't like drugs, just like the godfather in the movie.
00:24:26The 'Ndrangheta does not have a top-down structure like Cosa Nostra,
00:24:29it doesn't have a dome.
00:24:30It has a horizontal structure.
00:24:32All endrins are more or less even.
00:24:34But in those years,
00:24:35those who have the most influence are theirs,
00:24:37the Macri, the Piromalli, the Tripodo.
00:24:40Then something happens.
00:24:47Uncle Antonio is calm.
00:24:49It is in Siderno, in the heart of his kingdom,
00:24:51where he is feared and respected.
00:24:52It's January 20, 1975
00:24:55and Don Antonio Macri has just finished playing bowls,
00:24:58which are his passion.
00:24:59He never gave up playing even when he was a fugitive.
00:25:10She gets into the car, where her bodyguard is waiting for her,
00:25:13and at that moment another car pulls up alongside his.
00:25:16Four armed men come out and start shooting.
00:25:3618 shots fired against the side of Don Antonio's car,
00:25:40who dies instantly.
00:25:48They killed Uncle Antonio.
00:25:50Why?
00:25:50This is no small thing.
00:25:52It's the beginning of a war.
00:25:53Why did they do it?
00:25:54Things are changing in Calabria too.
00:25:57Business has changed.
00:25:58Now there are the big contracts.
00:26:03There are construction works underway
00:26:05of the fifth iron and steel center of Gioia Tauro,
00:26:08a colossus imagined in the midst of the steel crisis
00:26:10and destined to remain unfinished.
00:26:13There is the construction of an ionic salt chemical plant.
00:26:19And it's not just about contracts.
00:26:21There are hirings in public structures,
00:26:23with Catanzaro becoming the regional capital
00:26:26and the university that arrived in Cosenza.
00:26:32That's a lot of money.
00:26:34The young people of the emerging gangs,
00:26:36especially the De Stefanos of Reggio Calabria,
00:26:38they want that money.
00:26:39But to do this, the rules need to change.
00:26:42You need to have relationships with important people,
00:26:44even with uniforms, with men of the State.
00:26:46And then, to get into those businesses, you need money.
00:26:49Money that can be made from drugs and kidnappings.
00:26:52But the old people don't want to.
00:26:54And then the war breaks out.
00:26:56In those years it happened that some old men of the Andrangheta
00:26:59they accept this speech.
00:27:02The firecrackers accept it.
00:27:04Others, Don Mico Tripodo, Don Tony Macri,
00:27:08they don't accept it and so they are killed.
00:27:11Don Mommo, on the other hand, doesn't.
00:27:13He comes to an agreement with De Stefano,
00:27:15accept the change and in fact he will die a natural death
00:27:18on his sickbed in 1979.
00:27:21His funeral will be attended by a crowd of at least 6,000 people
00:27:24who follow the coffin in the pouring rain.
00:27:27The others, however, do not accept change.
00:27:29and one after the other they all get killed.
00:27:32It's a generational war that sees a sort of replacement,
00:27:35out with the old and in with the young.
00:27:37Don Antonio Macri, we saw him,
00:27:39he was killed outside the bowling green.
00:27:48Don Mico Tripodo dies far away, in Naples.
00:27:51He was arrested and is in Poggio Reale prison.
00:27:54He's also calm, he's feared, he's respected
00:27:56and is defended by his bodyguards.
00:27:58But in Poggio Reale Raffaele Cutolo is in charge
00:28:00with his new organized Camorra.
00:28:02And Raffaele Cutolo has reached an agreement with De Stefano.
00:28:18His killers have Don Mico's cell opened,
00:28:21They surprise him in his sleep and stab him to death.
00:28:33Together with Don Antonio Macri and Don Mico Tripodo
00:28:36at least 300 people die.
00:28:38It looks like a war, it's a war, a mafia war,
00:28:41which for now in Calabria is still the first.
00:28:44With the war, the balance within the Andrangheta changes.
00:28:47The firecrackers remain to dominate the Gioia Tauro plain,
00:28:51although of course Don Mommo says no.
00:28:53It is said that no one can move in Gioia Tauro,
00:28:57to get a place, to get a prebend,
00:29:00without the approval of Mommo Piromalli.
00:29:04But I have been missing, as I repeat, for four years.
00:29:06So these poor people are all sitting on the pavement,
00:29:09in the middle of the street, because Mommo Piromalli isn't there,
00:29:12cannot guarantee you a place.
00:29:13The Tripodos are no longer in Reggio Calabria.
00:29:16Now the strongest Andrina is that of the De Stefanos,
00:29:19Giorgio De Stefano and his brother Paolo, Paolo De Stefano,
00:29:22who has contacts with the Camorra for drug and cigarette trafficking.
00:29:26And in Locride?
00:29:27Don Antonio Macri is no longer with us.
00:29:29Who is in charge in Locride now?
00:29:33Africa, in those years, in the 70s, is almost the same as it was twenty years earlier,
00:29:37when it moved from the mountain to the sea.
00:29:39There is no water, the water pipes are broken
00:29:42and the Roman company that should have taken care of it never did.
00:29:45There is no master plan.
00:29:47Construction sites are at a standstill.
00:29:51There are 500 unemployed and 400 immigrants
00:29:55and the rest of the country lives exploited by illegal laborers
00:29:59or with disability pensions.
00:30:01There are those who protest, but nothing happens.
00:30:03And there's the 'ndrangheta.
00:30:05There are the new winning 'ndrine, those that emerged from the war.
00:30:08And Giuseppe Morabito?
00:30:10Peppe Morabito, who they now call Utiradrittu.
00:30:13Where did Utiradrittu go?
00:30:18Utiradrittu is clever.
00:30:19He understood which way the wind blows and is appropriate.
00:30:22Now he is also among those in charge in Locride.
00:30:25He had the ability, he had the intelligence
00:30:30starting from an ancient Andrangheta
00:30:35to become a modern 'Andranghetista.
00:30:38So to be interested in everything that the 'ndrangheta is interested in today
00:30:44and she got interested today.
00:30:46That is, he has so much charisma
00:30:50otherwise it would not have had a following and credit.
00:30:53The 'Ndrangheta has changed, but in its own way.
00:30:56It's not a criminal organization like all the others, we've seen that.
00:30:59It almost seems like an esoteric sect
00:31:01that its rites and its secrets
00:31:03to its formulas that seem to come from an archaic and ferocious past
00:31:06he cares a lot about it, even at the cost of his life.
00:31:09To conclude certain deals
00:31:11we also need to talk to the uniforms
00:31:13and also with the men of the state.
00:31:14But the 'Ndrangheta couldn't do this.
00:31:16So what?
00:31:17Something must be done.
00:31:19This is how the Saint is born.
00:31:26Rites that border on magic.
00:31:28The saints always gather in sevens
00:31:30and on a starry night sky
00:31:32because they are stars.
00:31:38This Holy Evening, in solitude and silence
00:31:40of this Holy Night illuminated by the light of the stars,
00:31:43the saints swear under the name of Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar
00:31:47and of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:31:56Saints can do many things.
00:31:59They can come into contact with the men of the State
00:32:01to create that grey area where institutions are touched,
00:32:05entrepreneurship and organized crime.
00:32:08The 'Ndrangheta transforms and becomes another organization
00:32:12by virtue of a decision that was fundamental.
00:32:15The decision was to participate
00:32:18to the Masonic lodges of Freemasonry.
00:32:20important lodges because they could guarantee
00:32:27the 'ndrangheta the possibility of getting in touch
00:32:30with magistrates, with men of the army,
00:32:35with lawyers, with notaries, with entrepreneurs
00:32:38with whom it was not possible to enter into a relationship outside.
00:32:43The 'Ndrangheta has entered into society
00:32:45and thanks to the Saint he can now also have relationships with politicians.
00:32:49Even though there are politicians who say
00:32:51that the 'ndrangheta does not exist,
00:32:53that organized crime does not exist in Calabria,
00:32:56it's just an invention to discredit the South.
00:32:58Like the Christian Democrat mayor of Gioia Tauro,
00:33:01Vincenzo Gentile, who also repeats it at a trial.
00:33:04Mayor Gentile was killed in Gioia Tauro in 1987.
00:33:07from a killer of the 'Ndrangheta.
00:33:09The 'ndrangheta also proposes directly
00:33:11its candidates for the elections
00:33:13and he supports them too much.
00:33:15As with the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano,
00:33:17cousin of the boss Paolo De Stefano,
00:33:19than in the municipal elections of Reggio Calabria
00:33:20risks being overcome with preferences
00:33:22its leader of the Christian Democrats
00:33:25and is forced to ask his voters
00:33:26not to vote for him anymore, the first and only case in Italy.
00:33:30The bosses of the 'Ndrangheta, of course,
00:33:32they deny any relationship with politics.
00:33:34However, he is a man who has political connections
00:33:37with important men?
00:33:39No, absolutely not.
00:33:41Of course if a politician meets me
00:33:43and he knows me, because almost everyone is from the place
00:33:47the politicians of Calabria,
00:33:49they meet me and greet me
00:33:50good morning Piero Malle,
00:33:51I say good morning, honorable,
00:33:53and if I ever needed something
00:33:55I turned to them,
00:33:57like everyone does.
00:33:58I'm not the first to address this
00:34:00to a parliamentarian, to a politician,
00:34:03to say I need you,
00:34:04I'm in difficulty, please help me.
00:34:07There is a man, standing in the dark.
00:34:10He has been living in a hole dug in the ground for almost a year,
00:34:12in a fiumara, the dry bed of a river.
00:34:15Some kind of canyon somewhere
00:34:16on the Spromonte, covered by a roof of branches.
00:34:22At night the only light that filters through
00:34:24it is that of the stars,
00:34:26which is reflected on a short chain
00:34:27which ties him to a stock.
00:34:31The man's name is Carlo De Feo
00:34:33and he is an engineer.
00:34:34He was kidnapped in Casodia,
00:34:35in the province of Naples,
00:34:37February 28, 1983.
00:35:00Some armed men took him,
00:35:02they covered his head with a hood
00:35:04and they took it away,
00:35:05up to that hole on the Astromonte,
00:35:07where he has been for almost a year
00:35:08without being able to move,
00:35:10without washing,
00:35:11without being able to change.
00:35:13They made him write a letter to his family
00:35:15in which he asks for a ransom
00:35:16of more than 4 billion.
00:35:18To make money you need money,
00:35:20to enter the drug business, for example.
00:35:23Heroin and cocaine
00:35:24they travel on cigarette routes,
00:35:26but since the port of Tangier was closed
00:35:28on the coasts of Morocco,
00:35:30they land on the coasts of Sicily and Calabria
00:35:32and from there they go up Italy
00:35:33up to the rich squares of the north.
00:35:35But to sell it, the drug,
00:35:37you have to buy it first
00:35:38and to buy it you need money,
00:35:40a lot of money.
00:35:45But the endrines are not rich
00:35:47and they don't have the money.
00:35:48So how can it be done?
00:35:51You have to take them from those who have them,
00:35:52with one of the most heinous crimes
00:35:54that can be imagined,
00:35:55kidnapping.
00:36:00Paul Getty, third junior,
00:36:02he is the grandson of an American billionaire
00:36:03and lives in Italy.
00:36:05The 'Ndrangheta kidnaps him in Rome
00:36:07July 7, 1973
00:36:08and takes him to Aspromonte.
00:36:14The 'Ndrangheta asks the boy's grandfather
00:36:16a huge redemption for that time,
00:36:18almost two billion,
00:36:19and to speed up negotiations,
00:36:21cut off Paul Getty's ear
00:36:22and sends it to the family in an envelope.
00:36:28This is news that affects Italy
00:36:30not yet used to certain things.
00:36:32Mr. Getty pays the ransom,
00:36:34one billion and 700 million,
00:36:36which is really a lot of money
00:36:37for those years.
00:36:38We are at the beginning of the 70s.
00:37:00With the ransom money,
00:37:02the 'Ndrangheta buys mechanical shovels,
00:37:03bulldozers and trucks
00:37:04and sets up companies to obtain contracts.
00:37:07In Bovalino, in Locride,
00:37:09there is a neighborhood that the locals
00:37:11they call unofficially
00:37:12Paul Getty neighborhood.
00:37:13While the Sicilian Cosa Nostra
00:37:15he forbids his people to kidnap in Sicily,
00:37:17so as not to attract attention
00:37:19of the law enforcement agencies on the island,
00:37:21the 'ndrangheta also operates in Calabria,
00:37:23but above all it acts in the north.
00:37:25He goes to get his victims in Lombardy,
00:37:27in Piedmont, in Veneto, in Emilia
00:37:29and then takes them to Aspromonte
00:37:31and he keeps them there for a very, very long time.
00:37:40Like Carlo Celadon.
00:37:42In 1988 Celadon is an 18 year old boy
00:37:45and lives in Arzignano, in the province of Vicenza.
00:38:10On January 25, a group of masked people
00:38:13he goes to pick him up at the villa where he lives with his parents
00:38:15and takes him to Aspromonte.
00:38:18The 'Ndrangheta locks him in a hole
00:38:19and he keeps it there for 831 days.
00:38:23831 days.
00:38:24It's been almost two and a half years
00:38:26and an infinite time to spend locked in a hole
00:38:28without knowing if you will still be alive the next day.
00:38:34The kidnappers carry out the following actions on young Carlo:
00:38:37a particular psychological strategy.
00:38:39They keep him in appalling conditions,
00:38:41locked in a very narrow cell
00:38:43where he is forced to stand almost always
00:38:45and they try to convince him that the father does not want to pay the ransom,
00:38:49that the family has forgotten about him.
00:38:54It is not true.
00:38:55The father pays 5 billion
00:38:57and Carlo is free again.
00:38:58They find it in the heart of the Astromonte,
00:39:00under a wooden crucifix,
00:39:02the crucifix of Zerbò,
00:39:03that people call
00:39:04the Christ of the kidnapped.
00:39:13I cried for years at night,
00:39:16I prayed to the Lord for a life,
00:39:20building with my girlfriend
00:39:25and I will pray again.
00:39:27Cesare Casella, on the other hand,
00:39:29remains in the hands of the Andrangheta
00:39:30for 741 days,
00:39:32more than two years,
00:39:33changing hiding places often,
00:39:35sometimes tied with a chain
00:39:36which secures it to a stump,
00:39:38like an animal,
00:39:39with chains on their ankles,
00:39:40exposed to the cold of the Astromonte,
00:39:42without any other defense
00:39:43that some sweaters.
00:39:50Cesare is 19 years old.
00:39:52They take him while he is in the car,
00:39:54in Pavia, near his home,
00:39:55January 18, 1988
00:39:57and released him on January 30, 1990.
00:40:24Upon his release,
00:40:25the battle contributed
00:40:27of his mother Angela,
00:40:28who launched appeals,
00:40:29he wrote in open letters
00:40:30and she ended up getting chained
00:40:32the crucifix of Zervo,
00:40:33the Christ of the kidnapped,
00:40:35to mobilize public opinion,
00:40:37why he was putting pressure on
00:40:38on the kidnappers
00:40:39and also on the State,
00:40:40so that they would free his son.
00:40:43Men,
00:40:44that you are holding hostage
00:40:45the son of this grieving mother,
00:40:47take note
00:40:48that one day we will die
00:40:50and give freedom
00:40:51to the poor young man.
00:40:52There are many
00:40:53kidnappings
00:40:54committed by the Andrangheta
00:40:56between the 70s
00:40:57and the early 90s.
00:40:58there are 139.
00:41:00To carry them out
00:41:01I am above all
00:41:02the indrine of Reggio Calabria
00:41:03and those of Locride,
00:41:05Platì,
00:41:06Christmas,
00:41:06Saint Luke.
00:41:08To convince families
00:41:10to pay quickly,
00:41:11to discourage alarms
00:41:12and escape attempts,
00:41:13to scare,
00:41:14the Andrangheta
00:41:15treats kidnapped people
00:41:16in an inhuman way,
00:41:17he beats them,
00:41:18mutilates them,
00:41:19he rapes them.
00:41:20When they are released,
00:41:21the kidnapped are other people,
00:41:22shocked,
00:41:23traumatized,
00:41:24lose weight.
00:41:25They look like deportees
00:41:25just released
00:41:27from a concentration camp.
00:41:40Among all,
00:41:41the worst kidnapping,
00:41:43the most infamous one
00:41:43and inhuman,
00:41:44it is definitely
00:41:45that of Marco Fiora.
00:41:49On March 20, 1987,
00:41:52in Turin,
00:41:52there is a car
00:41:53with three people on board,
00:41:54father,
00:41:55mother and son.
00:41:59Suddenly,
00:42:00two cars block it,
00:42:01one in front
00:42:02and the other behind.
00:42:03Some masked people come out
00:42:04with weapons in hand
00:42:05and break the car windows
00:42:06with a bribe.
00:42:10They grab the son
00:42:10and they drag him out,
00:42:12while the mother screams
00:42:13no, Marco doesn't.
00:42:14Marco Fiora
00:42:15he is seven years old.
00:42:16The bandits
00:42:17they take him to Aspromonte
00:42:18and they keep it for 17 months.
00:42:31They don't just keep it.
00:42:33They keep him tied up
00:42:34for 17 months,
00:42:35without being able to wash himself,
00:42:36without being able to change,
00:42:38chained with the right wrist
00:42:39to a camp bed,
00:42:40without being able to move,
00:42:41like a small animal
00:42:42for 17 months.
00:42:58A seven-year-old boy
00:43:00he was released on August 2, 1988,
00:43:03but the signs of that inhuman experience,
00:43:06both physical and psychological,
00:43:07it will be difficult to erase them.
00:43:09This was the last one,
00:43:11let's say,
00:43:11kidnapping
00:43:12which induced
00:43:14basically,
00:43:14with results,
00:43:15has induced
00:43:15organized crime
00:43:16of the area
00:43:17to withdraw
00:43:18from this commitment,
00:43:20also because
00:43:20it didn't become any more
00:43:22profitable.
00:43:23The presence
00:43:23on the territory
00:43:24of forces,
00:43:25of numbers
00:43:26of the police,
00:43:27of the Carabinieri,
00:43:28etc,
00:43:28prevented
00:43:29to continue
00:43:30in their illicit trafficking,
00:43:32that were going
00:43:32from drugs,
00:43:33from land management,
00:43:34from contracts,
00:43:35etc.
00:43:36So it wasn't
00:43:36more profitable.
00:43:38There is a man in the dark,
00:43:39tied in a hole
00:43:40under the branches,
00:43:41in the dry bed
00:43:41of a river.
00:43:46Sometimes
00:43:47it happens that someone
00:43:48manage to free himself.
00:43:49The kidnappers
00:43:50they loosen surveillance,
00:43:52or they don't close
00:43:52the chains,
00:43:53or you become so thin
00:43:54to be able to get away from it.
00:43:56But sometimes
00:43:56happens
00:43:57that someone
00:43:58manage to free himself.
00:43:59To that man
00:44:00happens.
00:44:01Engineer De Feo
00:44:02he frees himself
00:44:03and comes out of that hole
00:44:04where he was locked up
00:44:05for almost a year.
00:44:21he doesn't know where he is.
00:44:23It's on the Spromonte,
00:44:24in a river
00:44:25of the Butramo Valley,
00:44:26but he
00:44:27he doesn't know.
00:44:36What he knows
00:44:36is that he has to go
00:44:38quickly from there,
00:44:39run away as far as possible
00:44:40possible
00:44:40before the others,
00:44:41the kidnappers,
00:44:42come back and get it.
00:44:43He needs to find someone
00:44:44that I can call
00:44:45the carabinieri,
00:44:46help him,
00:44:47bring him home.
00:44:59So he begins to walk.
00:45:01It's in the mountains,
00:45:02he doesn't know where,
00:45:03but he walks
00:45:04until he sees something.
00:45:05A bridge.
00:45:06And behind the bridge
00:45:07a country.
00:45:15Engineer Defeo
00:45:16he can't ask for help.
00:45:17It is surrounded
00:45:19from a small crowd
00:45:19of women and children
00:45:20that block it,
00:45:21they call the kidnappers
00:45:22and have him brought back.
00:45:30Because that
00:45:31it's a very poor country
00:45:32and also the small related industries
00:45:33which revolves around kidnappings
00:45:35can be useful
00:45:35so as not to die of hunger.
00:45:37But it's not just
00:45:38why the 'ndrangheta
00:45:39governs
00:45:39the economy of misery
00:45:40that engineer Defeo
00:45:42is reported
00:45:43to his hole
00:45:43in the Butramo river
00:45:44where it will remain
00:45:45for almost a year
00:45:46until February 19, 1988
00:45:48when he will be released
00:45:50upon payment
00:45:51of a ransom
00:45:52of 4 and a half billion.
00:45:53It's that the 'ndrangheta
00:45:54it's scary.
00:45:55He does everything
00:45:56to instill terror
00:45:57in the people.
00:45:58I was elected
00:46:00mayor of Rosarno
00:46:01at the end of November
00:46:02of 1994.
00:46:06In the following days
00:46:08they were hit
00:46:10the schools
00:46:10of my country.
00:46:13We organized it right away
00:46:15a demonstration
00:46:16of all schools
00:46:19against
00:46:21the mafiosi
00:46:23and against criminals
00:46:25that they had accomplished
00:46:27those acts.
00:46:28and for the first time
00:46:31they paraded in Rosarno
00:46:34teachers
00:46:35students
00:46:37with the billboards
00:46:38precisely
00:46:40who were asking
00:46:42safety
00:46:44for schools
00:46:45and initiatives
00:46:47for legality.
00:46:50the mafia
00:46:51he replied
00:46:52in the days
00:46:54subsequent
00:46:54Night
00:46:56New Year's Eve
00:47:01hitting
00:47:02everyone
00:47:03the offices
00:47:04public
00:47:05that there were
00:47:05in Rosarva
00:47:06of the administration
00:47:07municipal
00:47:07the town hall
00:47:08up to even
00:47:09the cemetery
00:47:12hit
00:47:12with the shotgun
00:47:13because for one night
00:47:14whole
00:47:15the country
00:47:15it was in the hands
00:47:16of these bands
00:47:17of mafiosi.
00:47:18The strength of the mafia
00:47:19he is in silence
00:47:20it is the one that allows
00:47:22the control
00:47:22of the territory
00:47:23which allows
00:47:24to move
00:47:25as if it were
00:47:25invisible
00:47:26to keep a man
00:47:27inside a hole
00:47:28for almost a year
00:47:29without anyone
00:47:30say nothing
00:47:30to ask for protection money
00:47:32without anyone
00:47:32he complains
00:47:33to steal
00:47:34to traffic
00:47:35to kill
00:47:35as if no one
00:47:37he noticed it
00:47:38and instead
00:47:38the people
00:47:39he notices it
00:47:40the people
00:47:41he doesn't want them
00:47:41certain things
00:47:42the people of Calabria
00:47:43they are good people
00:47:44and he doesn't want it
00:47:45at home
00:47:45the mafia
00:47:45but it's difficult
00:47:46do something
00:47:52Joseph Valariotti
00:47:53for example
00:47:54Valariotti
00:47:55he is the secretary
00:47:56of the section
00:47:56of the communist party
00:47:57from Rosarno
00:47:59on several occasions
00:48:00he reported
00:48:01the presence
00:48:01of the mafia
00:48:02in his area
00:48:03especially in the field
00:48:04of trade
00:48:04of citrus fruits
00:48:05they kill him
00:48:06in the evening
00:48:06of June 10th
00:48:071980
00:48:08they shoot him
00:48:09at the exit
00:48:10of a restaurant
00:48:10where he went
00:48:11at dinner
00:48:11with some friends
00:48:17or John
00:48:18Losardo
00:48:18Losardo
00:48:20he is an assessor
00:48:20municipal
00:48:21in Cetraro
00:48:22and it is also
00:48:22secretary
00:48:23boss
00:48:23of the prosecution
00:48:24by Paola
00:48:24him too
00:48:25he reported
00:48:26things that don't
00:48:26they come back
00:48:27in his area
00:48:28reports
00:48:29between the 'Andrangheta
00:48:29and politics
00:48:30influences
00:48:31of the mafia
00:48:32on certain structures
00:48:32public
00:48:33they kill him
00:48:34June 23rd
00:48:351980
00:48:36two men
00:48:37on a motorbike
00:48:37they shoot him
00:48:38while he is
00:48:38coming home
00:48:47the billions
00:48:48of the kidnappings
00:48:49they are invested
00:48:50in traffic
00:48:50of drugs
00:48:51and they bear fruit
00:48:51other billions
00:48:52these too
00:48:53they are invested
00:48:54they enter
00:48:55in the business
00:48:55of procurement
00:48:56and they bear fruit
00:48:57still more billions
00:49:01in Gioia Tauro
00:49:02where the package
00:49:02Columbus
00:49:03decided
00:49:03to stop
00:49:04the revolt
00:49:04from Reggio
00:49:05provides
00:49:05the construction
00:49:06of the fifth
00:49:07steel center
00:49:08happens
00:49:08more or less
00:49:09the same thing
00:49:09what happened
00:49:10for Salerno
00:49:11Reggio Calabria
00:49:15they arrive
00:49:15the Endrines
00:49:16which are already ready
00:49:17with the companies
00:49:18for procurement
00:49:19the trucks
00:49:19and the machines
00:49:20for the movement
00:49:21Earth
00:49:21and they arrive
00:49:22even the companies
00:49:23from the north
00:49:23some of which
00:49:25they take it right away
00:49:26contact
00:49:26with the Endrines
00:49:26directly
00:49:27almost on their own initiative
00:49:28and they put themselves
00:49:29agree
00:49:30the costs
00:49:31of procurement
00:49:31they avoid them
00:49:32of 15%
00:49:33fixed
00:49:34which is like
00:49:34a kind
00:49:35of tax
00:49:35for the mafia
00:49:43many
00:49:44lots of money
00:49:45the 'ndrangheta
00:49:46she became rich
00:49:47Usually
00:49:48when they arrive
00:49:49the money
00:49:50the problems begin
00:49:51the arguments begin
00:49:52the contrasts
00:49:53on how to spend them
00:49:54how to divide them
00:49:55how to make more of it
00:49:55in companies
00:49:57normal
00:49:57the contrasts
00:49:58at the top
00:49:58they are resolved
00:49:59with the layoffs
00:50:00with the good exits
00:50:01with office changes
00:50:02in the mafia
00:50:03No
00:50:03in the mafia
00:50:04they are resolved
00:50:05with the machine gun
00:50:10it's like this
00:50:11that in half
00:50:12of the 80s
00:50:13in the 'ndrangheta
00:50:14the second one breaks out
00:50:15mafia war
00:50:16the second world war
00:50:17of the mafia
00:50:17it also broke out here
00:50:18for reasons of interest
00:50:19it is said that
00:50:21De Stefano
00:50:21Paul
00:50:22he had succeeded
00:50:23to secure
00:50:24all the best deals
00:50:25from Reggio Calabria
00:50:26and practiced
00:50:27a domain
00:50:28almost unchallenged
00:50:29but also extremely
00:50:30severe
00:50:31towards
00:50:31of its employees
00:50:32there was someone
00:50:33who was champing at the bit
00:50:34who's champing at the bit
00:50:36it is above all
00:50:36the andrina
00:50:37by Antonino Imerti
00:50:41Antonino Imerti
00:50:42they call it
00:50:43ferocious dwarf
00:50:44Surely
00:50:44not in his presence
00:50:45it has been announced
00:50:47a project
00:50:47very big
00:50:48the construction
00:50:49of a bridge
00:50:49on the strait
00:50:50from Messina
00:50:50one of the ends
00:50:52of the bridge
00:50:52should leave
00:50:53from Villa San Giovanni
00:50:54which is in the territory
00:50:55of the Andrina
00:50:56by Imerti
00:50:57even the andrina
00:50:58of the De Stefanos
00:50:59he wants to put
00:50:59hands on the deal
00:51:00but the ferocious dwarf
00:51:01he doesn't want to
00:51:02October 11, 1985
00:51:04a bomb
00:51:05placed in a car
00:51:06parked
00:51:07under Imerti's house
00:51:08in Villa San Giovanni
00:51:09explodes
00:51:10operated by remote control
00:51:11at a distance
00:51:12it's a technique
00:51:13typical of Cosa Nostra
00:51:14and it's the first time
00:51:15which is used
00:51:16in Calabria
00:51:17three people die
00:51:18but Antonino Imerti
00:51:20he is saved
00:51:20and prepares revenge
00:51:21Archie
00:51:22it's a neighborhood
00:51:23from Reggio Calabria
00:51:24and it's the neighborhood
00:51:25by Paolo De Stefano
00:51:26the boss
00:51:27of the Andrina
00:51:27of the De Stefanos
00:51:30more than a neighborhood
00:51:32it's a fiefdom
00:51:32considered impenetrable
00:51:34both to the police
00:51:35how hard it is to get in
00:51:36if not in strength
00:51:37that to men
00:51:38of the other Andrines
00:51:41the afternoon
00:51:42of October 13th
00:51:431985
00:51:44Paolo De Stefano
00:51:45he's on a motorcycle
00:51:46large-displacement
00:51:47led by his
00:51:48bodyguard
00:51:49Antonino Pellicano
00:51:50is going
00:51:51towards the center
00:51:52and it's quiet
00:51:53because that
00:51:54it's his neighborhood
00:51:54he can't imagine
00:51:56that to search
00:51:56to kill him
00:51:57his opponents
00:51:58they set up
00:51:59an ambush
00:51:59from the Wild West
00:52:095 men
00:52:10one who waits
00:52:11on the street
00:52:11in the car
00:52:12and 4 above
00:52:13on the balcony
00:52:13of a house
00:52:14that overlooks
00:52:15on the road
00:52:19they shoot him
00:52:20from above
00:52:21with two
00:52:21automatic rifles
00:52:22a shotgun
00:52:23and a gun
00:52:24large caliber
00:52:25massacring both him
00:52:26that Antonino Pellicano
00:52:33war breaks out
00:52:34on one side
00:52:35the andrina
00:52:36of the De Stefanos
00:52:37at whose helm
00:52:37now it's gone up
00:52:39Horace De Stefano
00:52:39Paul's brother
00:52:40together with the andrine
00:52:41of the Books
00:52:42and of the Teganos
00:52:43on the other
00:52:44the Andrina of the Imerti
00:52:45together with the Condellos
00:52:46and Serraino
00:52:47they enter the field
00:52:48even the survivors
00:52:49of the old Andrina
00:52:50by Don Mico Tripodo
00:52:51exterminated
00:52:52in the previous war
00:52:53in the second world war
00:52:55of Indrangheta
00:52:56that lasts
00:52:57since 1985
00:52:59until 1991
00:53:01the murdered dead
00:53:03there are over 700
00:53:04it's a war
00:53:06which takes place
00:53:07on the streets
00:53:08even in the city center
00:53:09of the cities
00:53:10from Reggio Calabria
00:53:11of Villa San Giovanni
00:53:12the murders
00:53:13they follow one another
00:53:14even in the arch
00:53:16of the same day
00:53:17to the rhythm
00:53:18of over
00:53:20200 per year
00:53:22in those years
00:53:24the percentage
00:53:25of murdered people
00:53:26in the province
00:53:26from Reggio Calabria
00:53:27is about
00:53:29the 30th
00:53:32murders
00:53:32for every 100,000
00:53:33inhabitants
00:53:34a percentage
00:53:35very high
00:53:39there are also some
00:53:40excellent murder
00:53:41Lodovico Ligato
00:53:43for example
00:53:44he is a person
00:53:45very important
00:53:46it's the honorable
00:53:48Lodovico Ligato
00:53:49member of parliament
00:53:49in the queues
00:53:50of Christian democracy
00:53:51former president
00:53:52of the railways
00:53:53of the State
00:53:54from which he resigned
00:53:55after it blew up
00:53:56the scandal
00:53:56golden sheets
00:53:57the Honorable Ligato
00:53:59return to Reggio Calabria
00:54:01determined to commit
00:54:02even in local politics
00:54:03but he does it
00:54:04in a bad moment
00:54:05it's in progress
00:54:06the second world war
00:54:07of the mafia
00:54:07there was the extreme
00:54:08need
00:54:09to hit
00:54:10this man
00:54:11Why
00:54:11for the previous ones
00:54:13that he had
00:54:13of connections
00:54:16with the clan
00:54:17De Stefano
00:54:18it was thought
00:54:19that once
00:54:20returned to Reggio Calabria
00:54:21was entered
00:54:22in politics
00:54:23and above all
00:54:23in the economic part
00:54:25which concerns
00:54:26politics
00:54:26could bring
00:54:28of the advantages
00:54:28to the lineup
00:54:29by Stefano
00:54:30the Honorable Ligato
00:54:31he knows what he risks
00:54:32in Reggio Calabria
00:54:33and be very careful
00:54:34August 27th
00:54:351989
00:54:36it's in Bocale
00:54:37of Pellaro
00:54:38a fraction
00:54:39from Reggio Calabria
00:54:40in which he spends
00:54:40the holidays
00:54:54it's moon at night
00:54:55and Ligato
00:54:56is accompanying
00:54:57some friends
00:54:57at the gate of the villa
00:54:58he greets them
00:54:59wait for them to go away
00:55:00along the underpass
00:55:01railway
00:55:11then he turns around
00:55:12to go back
00:55:13at that moment
00:55:14from the dark
00:55:15two men come out
00:55:16that they shoot at him
00:55:16on the back
00:55:22Ligato runs away
00:55:23wound
00:55:24chased by killers
00:55:25it gets to the point
00:55:26on the landing
00:55:26at home
00:55:27and there it falls
00:55:27in front of the armored door
00:55:35the wife
00:55:36he feels the blows
00:55:37open to see
00:55:38what happened
00:55:39but it closes immediately
00:55:40why a bullet
00:55:41it just misses her
00:55:42and it crushes
00:55:42against the wall
00:55:43inside the house
00:55:45then the killers
00:55:46they return from Ligato
00:55:47and they unload on him
00:55:48guns on you
00:55:49in all
00:55:5034 shots fired
00:55:52the second victim
00:55:53excellent
00:55:54he is a person
00:55:54completely different
00:55:56It happens on August 9th
00:55:571991
00:56:05there is a gas station
00:56:06working
00:56:06on the highway
00:56:07Salerno-Reggio Calabria
00:56:08up to par
00:56:09of Villa San Giovanni
00:56:10around 5:30
00:56:11in the evening
00:56:12he hears a noise
00:56:13like a brake
00:56:13very abrupt
00:56:14and then
00:56:15he sees a car
00:56:16that skids
00:56:16and goes off the road
00:56:17ending up inside
00:56:18a slope
00:56:31arrive soon
00:56:32the 113
00:56:32that finds
00:56:33the machine
00:56:34down below
00:56:34crushed
00:56:35against an embankment
00:56:37the machine
00:56:38it is damaged
00:56:39naturally
00:56:40but there is something
00:56:41of strange
00:56:41something that doesn't seem like it
00:56:43have nothing to do with it
00:56:44with an accident
00:56:45there is the hole
00:56:46of a buckshot
00:56:46on the frame
00:56:47of a window
00:56:48behind the wheel of the car
00:56:49there is a man
00:56:50and him too
00:56:51it doesn't seem to be
00:56:52the victim of an accident
00:56:53they shot him
00:56:54two rifle shots
00:56:55in the head
00:56:56two rifle shots
00:56:5712 gauge
00:56:57loaded with buckshot
00:56:59but who is he?
00:57:00that man?
00:57:01he is a magistrate
00:57:02of the Court of Cassation
00:57:03he is the substitute
00:57:04Attorney General
00:57:05Antonino Scopelliti
00:57:07in those days
00:57:08it's in Calabria
00:57:09to spend the holidays
00:57:10but he brought himself
00:57:11after a little work
00:57:12At home
00:57:13some folders
00:57:14of a process
00:57:15that is preparing
00:57:16and in which
00:57:16must support
00:57:17the public prosecution
00:57:18it's a process
00:57:19very important
00:57:20which is finally
00:57:21reached the last degree
00:57:22of judgment
00:57:23the Court of Cassation
00:57:23it's the maxi-trial
00:57:25to Cosa Nostra
00:57:26which involves
00:57:27the main bosses
00:57:28of the Sicilian mafia
00:57:36kill a magistrate
00:57:37like Antonino Scopelliti
00:57:39it's not a thing
00:57:39that serves
00:57:40to the 'ndrangheta
00:57:41if anything
00:57:41it's a thing
00:57:42that's nice
00:57:42to Cosa Nostra
00:57:43maybe
00:57:44maybe the 'ndrangheta
00:57:45has established relationships
00:57:46with other organizations
00:57:47Perhaps
00:57:48for sure
00:57:49she lay down
00:57:50and it arrived
00:57:50even very far away
00:57:55Africo continues
00:57:55to be the same
00:57:57one of the many centers
00:57:58of the Ionian coast
00:57:59grew up with the boom
00:58:00of construction
00:58:01of the 70s and 80s
00:58:02halfway up the hill
00:58:03there is the silo
00:58:04of a company
00:58:05which produces
00:58:05concrete
00:58:06it's the silo
00:58:07by Giuseppe Morabito
00:58:09of all
00:58:09Right
00:58:12Africo is not only
00:58:13Andrangheta
00:58:14as Calabria is not
00:58:15Africo is many things
00:58:17but it is also
00:58:18Joseph Morabito
00:58:19Right
00:58:20it has become important
00:58:25Right
00:58:26after the mafia war
00:58:28the 'ndrangheta
00:58:28he decided to equip himself
00:58:30of a higher level
00:58:31a bit like the dome
00:58:32of Cosa Nostra
00:58:33among the leaders
00:58:34which are part
00:58:35of this kind of dome
00:58:36according to investigators
00:58:37of the management
00:58:38investigative
00:58:39anti-mafia
00:58:39he would be there
00:58:41Right
00:58:41which would be
00:58:42according to them
00:58:43a kind of
00:58:44Bernardo Provenzano
00:58:45of the 'ndrangheta
00:58:46the meetings
00:58:47of this kind of dome
00:58:48they would no longer be held
00:58:49in the territory
00:58:50of the sanctuary
00:58:50of the Madonna of Polsi
00:58:51but right there
00:58:52in Africo
00:58:55he made a career
00:58:56Right
00:58:57since he was
00:58:57simple honored contrast
00:58:58in the 50s
00:58:59he managed to put together
00:59:01respect
00:59:01for the old rules
00:59:02of the 'ndrangheta
00:59:03that idea
00:59:04almost from esoteric sects
00:59:05with the spirit
00:59:06new business
00:59:07when he talks about him
00:59:08people say
00:59:09you had more money
00:59:10of the State
00:59:10he has more money
00:59:11of the State
00:59:11and when the boss
00:59:13of the police
00:59:13Vincenzo Parisi
00:59:14he goes to Locride
00:59:15for a meeting
00:59:16with the investigators
00:59:17Right
00:59:18he has him notified
00:59:19from a municipal messenger
00:59:20a warning
00:59:20to investigate him
00:59:21as if it were him
00:59:22the true authority
00:59:23of the area
00:59:26Now
00:59:27his influence
00:59:28goes beyond the country
00:59:29beyond Locride
00:59:30beyond Calabria
00:59:31Morabito's Andrina
00:59:33and not only that
00:59:33the whole 'ndrangheta
00:59:34she also stretched out
00:59:35in northern Italy
00:59:36in Milan
00:59:37in Lombardy
00:59:37where it became
00:59:38one of the organizations
00:59:39more powerful
00:59:40and not only
00:59:41she also stretched out
00:59:42abroad
00:59:42in the United States
00:59:43in Canada
00:59:44in Australia
00:59:45the international organization
00:59:46of the 'ndrangheta
00:59:48it mainly derives
00:59:49from two factors
00:59:49a family factor
00:59:51in fact there are
00:59:53many emigrants
00:59:55belonging
00:59:56to families
00:59:57Calabrians
00:59:58and among these
00:59:59also belonging
01:00:00to families
01:00:00of the 'ndrangheta
01:00:01so it's easy
01:00:03for those who want to go
01:00:04to establish
01:00:05of relationships
01:00:05in other areas
01:00:07and above all
01:00:07in other nations
01:00:08to lean on
01:00:09to these people
01:00:10it would be extremely
01:00:11difficult
01:00:12start
01:00:13arrive on site
01:00:14and not find
01:00:14no support
01:00:15and then
01:00:17to be able to develop
01:00:19the markets
01:00:20Certainly
01:00:20the market
01:00:21of drugs
01:00:22it needs to be developed
01:00:23at the international level
01:00:24in Australia
01:00:24for example
01:00:25there are some lands
01:00:26that are close by
01:00:27to the town of Griffith
01:00:28that are purchased
01:00:29with money
01:00:30coming from Platì
01:00:31it's money
01:00:32that come
01:00:32from some seizures
01:00:33completed in Lombardy
01:00:34some of these lands
01:00:36they are transformed
01:00:36in large plantations
01:00:37of Indian hemp
01:00:38there is a liberal MP
01:00:40Donald McKay
01:00:41which seems to get in the way
01:00:42he is killed
01:00:43in July 75
01:00:45to Griffith
01:00:45with lupara shots
01:00:46and in January
01:00:47of 1989
01:00:48he is killed
01:00:49also Colin Winchester
01:00:50deputy chief
01:00:51Canberra Police
01:00:52and then
01:00:53there is the Siderno Group
01:00:55to call it that
01:01:06was
01:01:07the Canadian judiciary
01:01:08why the andrina
01:01:09which dominates
01:01:10the criminal group
01:01:11that acts
01:01:11above all
01:01:12between Canada
01:01:12and the United States
01:01:13comes from Siderno
01:01:14and that's it
01:01:15that once
01:01:15it was ordered
01:01:16by Don Antonio Macri
01:01:21the money from the kidnappings
01:01:23they arrive in Canada
01:01:23in a bank in Toronto
01:01:24they are transferred
01:01:26in the United States
01:01:27in a Manhattan bank
01:01:28and from there
01:01:28they are used to purchase
01:01:29cocaine in Colombia
01:01:30which is then transferred
01:01:32in Calabria
01:01:32in Marina
01:01:33of Gioiosa Ionica
01:01:34the turnover
01:01:36it's huge
01:01:36between drugs
01:01:37arms trafficking
01:01:38and contracts
01:01:39the Siderno Group
01:01:40moves a circle
01:01:41of 50 million dollars
01:01:42in the 90s
01:01:47February 22, 2004
01:01:49Caserta Park
01:01:50it's a complex
01:01:51luxury residential
01:01:52which is found
01:01:53in the center of Reggio Calabria
01:01:57it's in an apartment
01:01:59of the residence
01:01:59that break in
01:02:00the agents
01:02:01of the mobile squad
01:02:01from Reggio
01:02:02that are found
01:02:03in front of
01:02:03to a man
01:02:03that offers no resistance
01:02:04On the contrary
01:02:05congratulates them
01:02:06I am honored
01:02:07to get to know you
01:02:08he tells him
01:02:11that man
01:02:12It's Orazio De Stefano
01:02:13head of Andrina
01:02:14of the De Stefanos
01:02:15it's the last one left
01:02:16of the family
01:02:17after all the others
01:02:18they were killed
01:02:22it's not that the State
01:02:23in all this time
01:02:24remained
01:02:24with your hands in your pockets
01:02:25there have been
01:02:26many operations
01:02:27accomplished by the forces
01:02:28of the order
01:02:29and coordinates
01:02:30from the Calabrian judiciary
01:02:31like the operation
01:02:32Harmony
01:02:33Operation Spring
01:02:34Operation Olympia
01:02:35which is born
01:02:36from the statements
01:02:37of two collaborators
01:02:38of justice
01:02:38and that sheds light
01:02:39on the mafia wars
01:02:40there have been
01:02:42maxi trials
01:02:43with hundreds
01:02:43of defendants
01:02:44and at least 27
01:02:45municipal administrations
01:02:46dissolved for mafia reasons
01:02:49there have been
01:02:50seizures
01:02:51of hundreds
01:02:51and hundreds
01:02:52of kilos of drugs
01:02:53almost a thousand
01:02:54only in 2003
01:02:57and there were
01:02:58arrests
01:02:59of fugitives
01:02:59excellent
01:03:00just like him
01:03:01Joseph Morabito
01:03:02said utira straight
01:03:03arrested
01:03:04in that farmhouse
01:03:05of Saint Venus
01:03:06on the Spromonte
01:03:06February 18th
01:03:08of 2004
01:03:08treat me well
01:03:10says Morabito
01:03:11to the police
01:03:11of the ROS
01:03:12who came
01:03:12to arrest him
01:03:13he was a fugitive
01:03:15for more than 12 years
01:03:16go straight
01:03:16he was always there
01:03:17very careful
01:03:21when he had to
01:03:22meet someone
01:03:23he didn't let it come
01:03:24in his hiding place
01:03:25he was going
01:03:26to find it
01:03:26When
01:03:27and where he wanted
01:03:33and he didn't speak
01:03:34never on the phone
01:03:35as for Bernardo
01:03:37Provenzano
01:03:37the recorded voice
01:03:39by Giuseppe Morabito
01:03:40said utira straight
01:03:41until now
01:03:41of his arrest
01:03:42it doesn't exist
01:03:45and then
01:03:46she was defeated
01:03:47the 'ndrangheta
01:03:48what strikes
01:03:50the outside observer
01:03:52which deals with
01:03:53of the 'ndrangheta
01:03:53is to see
01:03:55as despite
01:03:57there have been
01:03:59in the course
01:03:59of the latter
01:04:0015 years
01:04:01hundreds of processes
01:04:03at your expense
01:04:03of all the clans
01:04:04of the province
01:04:05from Reggio Calabria
01:04:06with hundreds
01:04:08of life sentences
01:04:08thousands of years
01:04:10of imprisonment
01:04:10combined
01:04:12with various sentences
01:04:14and then
01:04:15the arrest
01:04:16of over 2,000
01:04:17belonging
01:04:18to the 'ndrangheta
01:04:19I repeat
01:04:19surprises
01:04:20that all this
01:04:21did not cause
01:04:23a real one
01:04:23weakening
01:04:25of this organization
01:04:26what to say
01:04:28of all observers
01:04:30it's today
01:04:30the strongest
01:04:32the most powerful
01:04:33the most widespread
01:04:33both at national level
01:04:35that at international level
01:04:36we said it
01:04:37from the very beginning
01:04:38this is a story
01:04:39that nobody knows
01:04:42the story
01:04:43of an organization
01:04:44mysterious
01:04:44with a difficult name
01:04:45that in the silence
01:04:46become the organization
01:04:47strongest criminal
01:04:48that exists in Italy today
01:04:50and one of the strongest
01:04:51in the world
01:04:53in the drug market
01:04:54in South America
01:04:55in Colombia
01:04:56the 'ndrangheta
01:04:57has supplanted
01:04:58our thing
01:04:58and sometimes it happens
01:05:00that an exponent
01:05:01of a Sicilian gang
01:05:02with payment difficulties
01:05:03be seized
01:05:04from drug traffickers
01:05:05Colombians
01:05:06and be released
01:05:07only
01:05:07under warranty
01:05:08of the 'ndrangheta
01:05:09why the Calabrians
01:05:10of the Endrines
01:05:11are considered
01:05:11more reliable
01:05:12because they pay quickly
01:05:13and above all
01:05:14they don't speak
01:05:15when she arrived
01:05:17the storm
01:05:17of the collaborators
01:05:18of justice
01:05:18this one has crashed
01:05:19basically
01:05:21on Cosa Nostra
01:05:22but he left
01:05:24almost unscathed
01:05:24almost intact
01:05:25the 'ndrangheta
01:05:26the collaborators
01:05:28of justice
01:05:28of the 'ndrangheta
01:05:29I'm a stray
01:05:30minority
01:05:31and among these
01:05:31there is no one
01:05:32chieftain
01:05:33there is no one
01:05:34drangheta member
01:05:35of weight
01:05:36even today
01:05:37the gang
01:05:39more powerful
01:05:39of Reggio Calabria
01:05:40that
01:05:40of the De Stefanos
01:05:41has only one
01:05:42justice collaborator
01:05:43only one
01:05:44and then there's something else
01:05:46this is a story
01:05:47that nobody knows
01:05:48we said it
01:05:49but it's also a story
01:05:50that no one
01:05:51could imagine
01:05:52no one for example
01:05:53could imagine
01:05:55something like this
01:05:56a kilo of cocaine paste
01:05:58coast
01:06:0020 euros
01:06:03refined
01:06:04from a kilo
01:06:06of cocaine
01:06:07if they can be done
01:06:084.5 kg
01:06:09because up to 23-24%
01:06:11it's an amazing effect
01:06:12so the so-called
01:06:14cocaine
01:06:14or street heroin
01:06:16street cocaine
01:06:18that in the square of Milan
01:06:20of Turin
01:06:21of Rome
01:06:21it costs 75 euros
01:06:23per gram
01:06:25these are the earnings
01:06:27of drug trafficking
01:06:29considering
01:06:30us from our investigations
01:06:32we calculated
01:06:32That
01:06:34the 'ndrangheta
01:06:36the organizations
01:06:36that we know
01:06:37they can bring
01:06:39in Europe
01:06:39on average
01:06:423,000-4,000 kg
01:06:44of cocaine
01:06:44per month
01:06:45did we understand correctly?
01:06:47let's do the calculation
01:06:474,500 kg
01:06:49they are 4,500,000 grams
01:06:52at 75 euros
01:06:54per gram
01:06:54they are 337,500,000 euros
01:06:57I'm almost
01:06:58600 billion lire
01:06:59per month
01:07:00in a year
01:07:01they become almost
01:07:02a financial maneuver
01:07:03worthy of a state
01:07:04it is a huge economic power
01:07:06an amount of money
01:07:07that scares
01:07:12there is a wiretap
01:07:14in which a man
01:07:15of the 'ndrangheta
01:07:15he says to another
01:07:16who recovered
01:07:17280 billion lire
01:07:19in cash
01:07:19that they had buried
01:07:21underground
01:07:23unfortunately though
01:07:24the packaging
01:07:25it wasn't sealed well
01:07:26and they rotted
01:07:278
01:07:278 billion lire
01:07:29It does not matter
01:07:30says the other one
01:07:31let's throw them away
01:07:32as if it were nothing
01:07:33there are many
01:07:34lots of money
01:07:35but what is he doing there?
01:07:36the 'ndrangheta
01:07:37with all that money?
01:07:38the problem is investing
01:07:40the 'ndrangheta
01:07:40is investing
01:07:41above all
01:07:42in the tertiary sector
01:07:44and above all
01:07:45in real estate
01:07:46in the tertiary sector
01:07:48with the big chains
01:07:49of distribution
01:07:50food
01:07:52in real estate
01:07:54above all
01:07:54purchasing
01:07:55commercial establishments
01:07:56Where
01:07:57it's easy
01:07:58where possible
01:07:59an overcharging
01:08:01Meaning what
01:08:02there
01:08:03paradoxically
01:08:04the merchant
01:08:05Andrangheta member
01:08:06has the interest
01:08:07opposite
01:08:08does the opposite
01:08:08of the merchant
01:08:09honest
01:08:10paradoxically
01:08:11that is, the merchant
01:08:11honest
01:08:12it's normal
01:08:12tends to invoice
01:08:14as little as possible
01:08:15to pay less taxes
01:08:16the affiliate
01:08:18to the 'ndrangheta
01:08:19merchant
01:08:20front man
01:08:21or formally
01:08:23owner
01:08:23of a supermarket
01:08:24he is interested
01:08:25to invoice
01:08:26moreover
01:08:26to justify
01:08:27wealth
01:08:28to justify
01:08:29even more
01:08:30that 20%
01:08:30of profit
01:08:31about the product
01:08:32more invoice
01:08:33more
01:08:33can justify
01:08:3420%
01:08:35in addition
01:08:35of profit
01:08:39Therefore
01:08:40Now
01:08:41the 'ndrangheta
01:08:42is buying
01:08:43Very
01:08:43in northern Italy
01:08:45in Europe
01:08:46for example
01:08:47above all
01:08:48in Germany
01:08:49Germany
01:08:49of the east
01:08:50the economy
01:08:51mafia
01:08:51drug
01:08:52and poisons
01:08:52the market
01:08:53there are countries
01:08:54in Calabria
01:08:55where it doesn't come
01:08:56most requested
01:08:56not even the lace
01:08:57because all
01:08:58the activities
01:08:58commercial
01:08:59they are owned
01:08:59of the 'ndrangheta
01:09:00and it's not just
01:09:01a problem
01:09:02Calabrian
01:09:02there is a wiretap
01:09:04telephone
01:09:05in which a man
01:09:05he says to another
01:09:06to stop
01:09:07to buy houses
01:09:08in a small town
01:09:09of Germany
01:09:09because they own
01:09:10already three neighborhoods
01:09:11it's not just
01:09:12a criminal problem
01:09:14it's a problem
01:09:14economic
01:09:15and it's not just
01:09:16a problem
01:09:16of the State
01:09:17it's a problem
01:09:17of the people
01:09:18we have as common
01:09:20from Rosarno
01:09:21started
01:09:22the procedure
01:09:23civil
01:09:24for compensation
01:09:27economic
01:09:29of the damages
01:09:30morals
01:09:31and materials
01:09:32products
01:09:33from the mafia
01:09:34to our country
01:09:36to our land
01:09:37who wins it
01:09:38this war?
01:09:39the carabinieri are enough
01:09:40the policemen
01:09:41magistrates are enough
01:09:42there is that voice
01:09:44that disturbing sentence
01:09:45that interception
01:09:46at the start
01:09:46of our history
01:09:47the man of the 'ndrangheta
01:09:49who speaks with the entrepreneur
01:09:50we live there
01:09:52we are there
01:09:52we are the past
01:09:54the present
01:09:54and the future
01:09:55the past
01:09:56the present
01:09:57and the future
01:09:57but maybe not
01:09:59there is another interception
01:10:00they are the voices
01:10:01of two men
01:10:02who speak
01:10:03of a feud
01:10:03that in a country
01:10:04is claiming victims
01:10:05on victims
01:10:06what is said
01:10:07asks one of the two
01:10:08they say you are ruining
01:10:09the country
01:10:10the other one answers
01:10:11the people
01:10:11she's tired of all this
01:10:13and if people
01:10:14he rebels
01:10:14we are finished
01:10:15Here you are
01:10:16if people rebel
01:10:18they are finished
01:10:19thank you all
01:10:27thank you all
01:10:34thank you all
01:10:37thank you all
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