Isoke Aikpitanyi è un ragazza nigeriana, di Benin City, che decide di lasciare la sua famiglia e il suo Paese per cominciare una nuova vita in un Paese europeo più ricco. Il suo è il sogno di una vita normale: un lavoro, una casa e anche la possibilità di mandare un aiuto alla famiglia. Ma la scelta di partire si rivela una trappola terrificante. Isoke si ritrova a Torino di notte, sola e spaventata, ad attenderla ci sarà la sua maman, una donna del suo paese dall’aspetto gentile che ben presto si rivela uno degli aguzzini che la costringeranno a prostituirsi. Notte e giorno, sette giorni su sette, in stato di gravidanza o subito dopo un aborto. Alla base c’è una inaudita violenza fisica e psicologica. Le ragazze come Isoke sono infatti ricattate e minacciate di morte con le loro famiglie. Devono restituire i soldi anticipati per il viaggio e per la permanenza in Italia dall’organizzazione che le ha portate in Europa. Nonostante tutto Isoke, dopo anni di atroci sofferenze, decide di ribellarsi e scappare. Con l’aiuto di un uomo italiano, che poi diventerà suo marito, e insieme ad altre persone fonda un’associazione che si occupa di assistere le vittime della tratta della prostituzione. Il progetto “La ragazza di Benin City” sembra portare ad una conclusione a lieto fine, ma come Isoke, sulla strade italiane, ci sono migliaia di donne vittime del traffico di essere umani. I loro racconti rivelano qualcosa di insostenibile che è necessario raccontare
2015.07.04 - La tredicesima ora 02 - LA STORIA DI ISOKE AIKPITANYI - Sabato 4 luglio 2015
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2015.07.04 - La tredicesima ora 02 - LA STORIA DI ISOKE AIKPITANYI - Sabato 4 luglio 2015
#CarloLucarelli #Cronaca #CronacaNera #Blackmafia #MafiaNigeriana #Crime #TrueCrime
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00:05There are stories that when you meet them, as if they demand to be told, maybe
00:10someone else has already done it, maybe the same protagonists, but it doesn't matter, because
00:15they are so important, so engaging, that they force you to give them a loud voice, because
00:20someone finally gets angry and makes sure that certain situations no longer exist.
00:25In this story, then, as if everything else were not enough, there is also something that does
00:29make me even more angry, it makes me personally angry, so much so that I even struggle
00:33to tell that thing there and I'm sure it doesn't just make me angry.
00:37But I'll tell you later, when we get there.
00:40Now let's start with her, Isoke.
00:43I was dreaming, I was dreaming, coming back home, who knows, maybe outside Nigeria, people were living,
00:57they wouldn't have the problems I had at that time.
01:50Our story begins with a beautiful girl.
01:53A beautiful girl in her twenties named Isoke.
01:58In Turin, in winter, it gets dark early.
02:01And so it was that afternoon too.
02:03An ordinary afternoon, on an ordinary day, in mid-winter 2000.
02:19A man like many others, an ordinary man, not young, a little unkempt, sitting hunched over on that bench along the road,
02:26amidst so many people passing by and going away, without even looking at him, as if he didn't even exist.
02:31Isoke, however, looks at him, because that man is doing something, something strange, he is crying.
02:38Bent over on his knees, his face buried in his hands, he cries.
02:42Who is that man? Isoke wonders.
02:44Why is he crying?
02:52Four in the afternoon, on an ordinary winter day, in Turin.
02:56This is our thirteenth hour, the moment when everything changes.
03:00Because there is always, in a story, a moment when things begin to change.
03:05Maybe they were already changing a long time ago, and maybe there are other moments like this too.
03:10But the way we're telling it, that's our turning point, our thirteenth hour.
03:16Let's go back and try to understand why.
03:30It's cold at night in Turin.
03:32Not in summer of course, but in autumn and even a little in spring it gets cold.
03:36And in winter it's freezing cold.
03:38And outside the center, on the main streets of the suburban neighborhoods and industrial areas, it does so even more.
03:44There had even been snow a few nights before.
03:49Isoché is cold, freezing cold.
03:55She's been in Turin for a couple of months, but she still hasn't gotten used to the northern Italian climate.
04:00And he knows that it is not enough to walk back and forth, and stamp your feet on the ground, hard, or beat your
04:05hands on the arms.
04:12Isoche is cold.
04:13And not only because he comes from Africa, from Nigeria, where the climate is very different, and before those nights
04:18he had never even seen snow.
04:28Isoché is cold, because she is dressed like this, with a pair of short panties on her legs, a microscopic top and a shrug
04:35which barely covers it,
04:36she's practically naked, and it's not even enough to stand next to a fire burning inside a bin.
04:52Luckily there is that wig that warms the head a little, but it's nothing, compared to the cold
04:57of the nights of Turin.
04:58But that's his suit, his work suit.
05:02Because at this moment in our history, Isoché is a prostitute.
05:19One of the many that can be found on the streets of Turin, from north to south, on the avenues of the centre of Bologna,
05:25on the Salaria in Rome, in the center of Milan, or in the Navigli area.
05:28On the state road 16 between Foggia and San Severo, or on the Adriatic coast, from Ravenna to Rimini,
05:33and down to San Benedetto del Tronto, and everywhere in between, throughout Italy.
05:45Many, many, more than 45,000.
05:48Of these, at least 20,000 come from Africa, like Isoché.
06:17Isoche is cold.
06:19Watch the cars speeding along the road.
06:22Some slow down, to look at her and the other girls,
06:25who burst into clothes that are too tight and too light, due to the freezing nights in Turin.
06:36There are cars that pass and repass, and then they stop.
06:40The window that goes down, as much as you want, 25,000.
06:43And then nothing, window up and the car starts again.
06:46Or okay, let's go.
06:47Isoché gets into the car and leaves with the client.
07:02Here, the customers.
07:04There are many types, and when Isoché thinks about them, a smile sometimes escapes him.
07:09There are those who pay for sex, those who pay just to talk.
07:13There are papagiri, that's what the girls call them,
07:16who drive round and round with the car before deciding to stop.
07:20And then, after that, they just want to ask questions, make friends, help for a while,
07:24but then they disappear.
07:26And then there are the others, the violent ones.
07:29I pay the fee the girl asks,
07:36and thinks he can exercise, let's say, any power that comes into his mind.
07:43And the one who threatens him with the knife, with the guns.
07:50Anything happens in that reality.
07:55There are those who think that for having paid a woman,
07:58they can do whatever they want, even if the woman doesn't want it.
08:01Paid rapists, the girls call them,
08:04because that's exactly what they do, as happened to Efe.
08:06When I was talking to her, on the phone, she told me,
08:13words that they understood, they pierced my uterus.
08:15They punctured my uterus.
08:22There are those who do not want to pay,
08:24those who want their money,
08:26those who like to hurt for the sake of hurting,
08:28like that guy who picked up girls
08:30and then he threw them out of the moving car,
08:32just to see what effect it had.
08:34As happened to Osas,
08:35which was found on a suburban street,
08:38all flayed and covered in blood,
08:40without even knowing where it had ended up.
08:42Customers rob, beat, rape and kill,
08:47as happened to Koi,
08:48who was 21 years old when she was killed
08:50and thrown into a river in the province of Novara.
09:04They are men who take it out on women
09:06and take advantage of those who are weakest and most defenseless,
09:10foreigners, illegal immigrants, black women, prostitutes.
09:14Isoche always thinks that every African woman is raped
09:17she is a saved Italian.
09:24Isoche is lucky.
09:26They only beat her twice.
09:28and he only took one stab wound, a small one,
09:31one time he wasn't even working.
09:34She accepted a ride from someone who then wanted to have sex
09:36and when she refused
09:38he stabbed him in the stomach
09:39who handed her the coat and clothes
09:42injuring her in a non-serious manner
09:43and then threw her out of the car.
09:56Meanwhile it's 5 o'clock.
09:58Isoche's shift is over.
10:00From 10pm to 5am, 7 hours,
10:03for 7 days a week,
10:05for 52 weeks,
10:07for 12 months a year,
10:08why girls go to work on the street
10:10even when it's a holiday
10:11and even when they are sick.
10:21Because there is so much work to do.
10:23There are many customers
10:24that roam the streets of our country.
10:27There are 2 and a half million of them.
10:44Before going to bed,
10:45Isoche does the parade in reverse.
10:47The parade, in the jargon of girls like her,
10:50it's that time of day
10:52where you get dressed to go to work.
10:54In which girls,
10:55which they wear during the rest of the day
10:56what all the girls in the world wear,
10:59instead they have to wear very tight stockings
11:02and culottes that reveal more than they cover,
11:04climbing on shoes with endless wedges,
11:07wear brightly colored wigs,
11:09to put on make-up, or rather, to paint one's face
11:11according to the crazy, absurd and unnatural
11:14street fashion.
11:21To transform, in short,
11:23from women to prostitutes.
11:26As he goes to bed,
11:27Isoche also thinks she is lucky.
11:29Every night he goes out to work,
11:31Isoche thinks about what they think
11:32all girls like her.
11:34Everyday,
11:35you're lucky to make it alive
11:36when you go to sleep.
11:38At that moment everyone,
11:40I don't know,
11:41use what is most
11:43his faith,
11:45what he believes,
11:46Meaning what,
11:50whatever he feels like
11:52some amulet
11:53in your hands,
11:54what makes the sign
11:55of the cross.
11:57I,
11:58alright,
11:59I didn't have this faith,
12:01but when I saw them
12:02all these gestures
12:03before going out,
12:04and I did it
12:06Me too,
12:08let's say,
12:08but,
12:09Yes,
12:10it's just fear
12:12to return,
12:15of not knowing
12:16if they come back
12:17you live.
12:19Here you are,
12:20that day too,
12:21Isoche was lucky.
12:36Isoche is sleeping,
12:38hugging the bags
12:39of hot water
12:39with which he seeks
12:40to chase away the frost
12:41of the nights of Turin.
12:42If he dreams,
12:43and dreams of his current life,
12:45then it's a nightmare.
12:46But if he has a nice dream,
12:47then it's his past life,
12:49when he was still in Nigeria,
12:50in the countryside near Benin City,
12:52the red earth of Africa,
12:54the garden,
12:54where he worked
12:55we are his eight brothers,
12:57go to the market
12:57with his mother,
12:58with baskets on their heads.
12:59That fine red earth
13:01you find it everywhere,
13:03even in pairs
13:06where he rested,
13:09you find them everywhere.
13:10For me they were periods
13:13really beautiful.
13:15But then things change.
13:17The father leaves the family
13:18and divorces his mother.
13:19Isoke grows,
13:21she's not a child anymore
13:22and faces all the problems
13:23of a company
13:24like the Nigerian one
13:25where the rich are really very rich
13:28and the poor are just poor.
13:30In Isoke, for example,
13:32I would like to continue studying,
13:33but his is a poor family,
13:35the mother is the only one
13:36to carry the whole thing forward.
13:38We need to help her.
13:39Isoke would like to study medicine,
13:40become a nurse,
13:42but it's not possible.
13:43With no prospects for the future,
13:45not in Nigeria at least,
13:46Isoke is a teenager first
13:48and then a young girl
13:49that reacts
13:50how all the kids in the world react,
13:52even those with fewer problems.
13:54Wanting to disappear,
13:55change,
13:56leave.
13:57I was starting to identify with myself
13:59with my parents,
14:01I don't know,
14:01I'll do them myself,
14:03seeing
14:03one day I will finish,
14:05I don't know,
14:07find myself pregnant
14:08from some boy.
14:12This travel agency
14:13which is right next door
14:14at his sister's house.
14:16Isoke passes in front of us often
14:17and every time
14:18he stops to dream.
14:20All those places,
14:21so beautiful,
14:22so far away,
14:22she talks about it with her friends.
14:24Who knows how wonderful it would be to leave.
14:25They were talking about Europe,
14:28they talked to each other a lot,
14:30they talked to each other a lot,
14:31you could see people
14:32who made it,
14:35they're tuna.
14:37Naively,
14:38seeing the advertisements,
14:40that's what I have left
14:41still long in mind,
14:44cat advertisement
14:45who eats on a plate.
14:51to me,
14:52Yes,
14:53it was a bit of a sign
14:54of well-being.
14:55As,
14:56one day,
14:56enter the agency
14:58and asks for information.
14:59Where do you want to go?
15:00In Europe.
15:01Do you have any documents?
15:02No.
15:03Sin.
15:04But wait a moment.
15:05There would be a system.
15:06There is a lawyer,
15:07here is the address,
15:08he'll take care of it.
15:13The lawyer
15:14he is an elegant man,
15:16imposing,
15:17he speaks well
15:17and tells her that there is no problem,
15:19it's just a question of money.
15:25Money for documents,
15:27travel money,
15:28money to support yourself at the beginning,
15:30but it doesn't matter,
15:31he gives them to you in advance
15:32and when Isochi will start working
15:34you can return them to him calmly.
15:36It's just enough
15:37that someone in his family
15:38stand surety for the debt.
15:50because the work
15:51it exists in Europe.
15:52Just go there
15:53and it is found.
15:54For example,
15:55What can Isoché do?
15:56What can he do?
15:57Help the mother
15:58to sell fruit at the market.
15:59Very good.
16:00Europe is full of supermarkets
16:02and someone like her
16:03the work
16:03he finds it right away.
16:10Isoché is a simple girl.
16:12he doesn't know anything
16:13of what is happening in Europe,
16:15he doesn't know anything
16:15of the world of work.
16:17Neither she,
16:17nor his brother Edward
16:18they are well aware
16:20of the money that is needed,
16:21calculate yourself a little in euros,
16:22a little in dollars
16:23and a little in Nara,
16:24the local currency.
16:25And then it all seems so formal,
16:27with a deed of guarantee
16:28deposited by a notary,
16:30so organized.
16:31And in fact,
16:32just Isoché
16:33and the other girls like her
16:34they arrive in London,
16:35at Heathrow Airport,
16:37there is a gentleman
16:37who traveled with them
16:38that is approaching
16:39to an English official
16:40and hands him an envelope
16:41and that makes them all pass
16:43from a service entrance,
16:44skipping the check
16:45of passports.
16:56In London,
16:57Isoché stays for a month,
16:59locked in an apartment
17:00together with six other girls
17:01waiting for a job
17:02that doesn't arrive.
17:03They can't go out,
17:04they must not attract attention,
17:06they hear strange phone calls
17:07and they start to get scared,
17:09because they begin to understand
17:10that there is something strange,
17:11of disturbing.
17:18We always use a language
17:20if it has reached the mece,
17:25they speak with Italy,
17:28with Paris
17:29and sometimes even the language
17:32a little to see
17:35what attitude
17:36to see who matched
17:40to the various countries.
17:45of rights.
17:47But we couldn't,
17:48a bit
17:49we sensed something
17:51that was really put on
17:53of concern.
17:58But with other girls
18:00let's say,
18:01No,
18:01it will be a new slang
18:03in English,
18:04the mece,
18:05which mece.
18:06then they tell her
18:07which is better
18:08if he goes to Italy.
18:09There at work
18:10there's more
18:10that in England,
18:11saleswoman in a shop
18:12of African fabrics,
18:14for example.
18:14They're looking for a lot of people
18:15so in Italy.
18:17At that time
18:17Isoche mounts
18:18on a bus,
18:19he goes all the way to Paris
18:19and from there to Turin.
18:21Now,
18:22Isoche is naive,
18:23it's simple,
18:24but she's not stupid.
18:25He knows it
18:26which entered Europe
18:27illegally,
18:28with false documents.
18:29What you don't imagine
18:30is to have become
18:32the victim
18:32of the trade
18:33of human beings.
18:44Like the girls from the East,
18:46Romanian,
18:47Albanians or Moldovans,
18:48that pass through
18:49border crossings
18:50with Slovenia
18:50and Austria.
18:51Like African girls,
18:53that cross
18:53the deserts of Sudan
18:54in Morocco
18:55and Libya
18:55and then they embark
18:57challenging the Mediterranean
18:58up to Gibraltar
18:59or to the coasts of Sicily.
19:01Relocate
19:01from criminal organizations
19:03who already exploit them
19:04in other countries,
19:05kidnapped and sold
19:06or deceived
19:07with the promise
19:07of a job
19:08and a better life.
19:18The law
19:19and sociology
19:20they call it
19:21trafficking of human beings,
19:23human trafficking
19:24or alien smuggling,
19:25migrant trafficking
19:27and it doesn't concern
19:27only prostitution.
19:29We can call it
19:30in another way
19:31and with a term
19:32much simpler,
19:34slavery.
19:35So from this moment on
19:36when we talk
19:37of girls like Isoche
19:38we stop
19:39to use the word prostitutes
19:40and we use another one,
19:42another term
19:43which best describes
19:44the essence
19:44of history
19:45that we are telling,
19:46slaves,
19:47sex slaves.
19:48And when we talk
19:49of foreign prostitution
19:51we also use here
19:52another term,
19:53deals with,
19:54the trade
19:55of the slaves.
20:16Isoche sleeps
20:16and if he dreams
20:17his life in Africa
20:18then it's a beautiful dream,
20:19but if it started
20:20to dream his life
20:21in Italy
20:21then it's a nightmare
20:23and it has been so from the very first moment
20:25where he gets off the bus
20:26and touches the ground
20:26of our country.
20:34And here I would like to give
20:35a first clue
20:36on that thing
20:36that makes me angry
20:37and what I would like to tell
20:38only at the end.
20:39It doesn't work for me
20:40that one thinks
20:41my country
20:41like a nightmare.
20:42It's not like that
20:43that Italy is dreamed of
20:44but it's just a clue
20:46because there's worse.
20:48Anyway Isoche
20:49arrives in Turin
20:49one morning
20:50at the end of autumn
20:51of 2000.
20:52They told her
20:53that just got off
20:54from the Paris bus
20:55he has to go right away
20:56at the station
20:56of Porta Nuova
20:57stand alongside
20:59of the main entrance
21:00and wait.
21:02And so does she
21:03Wait
21:04Wait
21:05wait hours
21:06one hour after another
21:08all morning
21:09all afternoon
21:09until it gets dark.
21:11He's hungry
21:12he's thirsty
21:13he needs to go to the bathroom
21:14he can't stand up anymore
21:15but he's scared
21:16to miss his appointment
21:17to find herself alone
21:19a 20-year-old girl
21:20with on the shoulders
21:21the backpack he used
21:22to go to school
21:22and who doesn't know
21:23a word of Italian
21:25he has no documents
21:25he doesn't know where to go
21:26and so
21:27Wait
21:29Wait.
21:40There is a woman
21:41a lady
21:42in his 40s
21:43Nigerian
21:44she too
21:45On the contrary
21:45of his own area
21:46the game understands
21:48from the scars
21:49that he has on his face
21:49three small signs
21:51parallels
21:51on the cheeks
21:52which are the traits
21:53badges
21:53of his ethnicity
21:54the lady
21:55it's already passed
21:56a couple of times
21:56he seems to have noticed her
21:57and so
21:58when it comes back
21:58one more time
21:59is getting closer
22:00to Isoche
22:00and asks her
22:01what he does to us
22:02there
22:02alone
22:18is called
22:19Judith
22:19the kind lady
22:20and when it offers
22:21Isoche
22:22to bring her
22:22at his house
22:23after all those hours
22:24tired death
22:25hungry with me
22:25she accepts
22:27with a relief
22:27unstoppable
22:28he doesn't know
22:38that that one
22:39it's a technique
22:40that that relief
22:41and that gratitude
22:43that is felt
22:43towards whoever offers you a hand
22:45after a long period
22:46of torture
22:46they belong
22:47to a technique
22:48very precise
22:48also used
22:50from the specialists
22:51of the interrogations
22:51of the secret services
23:02more efficient
23:03why so
23:05it is decided that
23:05we will be back immediately
23:07to Judith
23:07with a rush
23:08of friendship
23:09of dedication
23:10of true love
23:11like between sisters
23:12like between mother and daughter
23:13without knowing that Judith
23:15he is the very person
23:16that he was waiting for
23:17his exploiter
23:19his mamman
23:20they are the mammans
23:22to request
23:23the girls
23:23from Nigeria
23:24to order them
23:25really
23:26choosing them
23:26from photographs
23:27and video catalogs
23:28made
23:29without their knowledge
23:30from local recruiters
23:31to buy them
23:32as if they were merchandise
23:33and manage them
23:34once
23:35arrived in Europe
23:36like Judith
23:36with Isoke
23:43almost always
23:44I am former prostitutes
23:45in turn
23:46already deceived
23:47and harassed
23:47so to his own doing
23:49to that world
23:50of violence
23:50and exploitation
23:51to pass
23:52on the other side
23:53with the brain
23:54so burned
23:55from the sidewalk
23:56as Isoke says
23:56that they don't know
23:57alternative
23:58like the bosses
23:59the inmates
24:00of the fields
24:01of concentration
24:02who become guardians
24:03and they accept
24:04to collaborate
24:04with the Nazis
24:05thus transforming itself
24:06in pillars of the system
24:08he's starting to understand
24:10a
24:11they screwed you
24:13two
24:16how can I
24:17go out
24:17so there is an anger
24:18total
24:19which must succeed
24:21to find
24:22Truly
24:23a way out
24:24the way out
24:27can be
24:27a solution
24:30to transform
24:32that anger
24:32into something
24:33positively
24:34if you can't do it
24:35anger
24:37sometimes
24:37one is
24:38to ugliness
24:40And
24:42let's say
24:42you can't
24:44foresee
24:44what
24:44can
24:45happen
24:46how can it
24:47to do harm
24:47to himself
24:48and other people
25:12iso who went to bed
25:13hugging hot water bottles
25:15to take the frost off your bones
25:16of the night spent out
25:18and when the water got cold
25:20it's already time to get up
25:21because there is not only
25:22street work
25:23there are also all the works
25:25that the mamma wants to be homemade
25:26wash
25:27cooked
25:28clean
25:28like every day
25:38because that
25:39it seems like any other day
25:40and like many others who will come
25:42seven days a week
25:43four weeks a month
25:4512 months a year
25:46he doesn't know that there are only 5 hours left
25:49at that moment
25:49the man sitting on the bench
25:51with his face in his hands
25:52who cries
26:12just woke up
26:13Isoche has breakfast
26:14rice and stewed tomatoes
26:16that's what he'll eat for lunch
26:18and that he will also eat for dinner
26:19rice and tomatoes
26:21just rice
26:22sometimes rice and fish
26:23a dry, black fish
26:24which seems to have been frozen for years
26:26because that
26:27it's the only thing
26:27which passes to the mamman
26:43they are the mammans
26:44who manage daily life
26:46girls like Isoche
26:47that they build around it
26:49a closed world
26:50a little Africa
26:51starting from food
26:52Isoche can't take it anymore
26:54of rice and tomatoes
26:55but he doesn't know Italian cuisine
26:57he doesn't know the products sold here
26:59and he would be scared anyway
27:00to enter a supermarket
27:12Outside Judith's house
27:14there is an unknown world
27:15where customers are the only contacts
27:17with a scary Italy
27:18fear of being recognized
27:20reported
27:21arrested
27:21send away
27:22fear of everything and everyone
27:24fear of hospitals
27:25of the doctors
27:26and above all
27:27of the police
27:37go
27:41in the emergency room
27:42sometimes it's just
27:45it's a point of death
27:46if not the girls
27:47they don't go
27:48they don't go to the hospital
27:50when I'm pregnant
27:52pregnancies
27:53you can imagine
27:56in such a way that
27:59not even like a beast
28:01they come
28:03even today
28:05interrupted
28:06pregnancies
28:07from
28:08from this
28:09from these ladies
28:11they are the mothers
28:12who decide
28:13if the girls
28:14they have to have an abortion
28:14or they can get the baby
28:16and if the child
28:17he can stay with them
28:18locked in the house
28:19without anyone seeing it
28:20or if it needs to be sent
28:21in Nigeria
28:22to have grown up
28:23for a fee
28:24from other families
28:31the television is on
28:32Judith is watching
28:34a Nigerian soap opera
28:35one of those filmed in Lagos
28:37and inspired by stories
28:38beautiful type
28:39where everyone is rich
28:40and they are beautiful
28:41and they have a lot of problems
28:42but of those who have
28:43only people
28:44so rich
28:45and so beautiful
28:45there are many
28:47of DVDs
28:48of import like this
28:49at home
28:49because apart from those
28:51and the evening programs
28:52that the mamman chooses
28:53you can't look at anything else
28:54if you're good
28:56if you work well
28:56without creating problems
28:58if you are obedient
28:59for everything else
29:00and if you try to please her
29:01in all ways
29:02the mamman
29:02it can also make you sit down
29:04next to her
29:04on the sofa
29:05to watch television
29:06if you're good
29:07and it's better
29:09because when they get angry
29:10the mammans
29:11they are scary
29:12if a girl
29:13that did not fit
29:14to live that life
29:16their families are threatened
29:20in the country of origin
29:22right in Nigeria
29:22and if the girl
29:26he just doesn't want to
29:30to adapt
29:31and sometimes
29:32they come
29:36beaten
29:36and raped
29:37from some girls
29:38that these mothers
29:39let's say
29:40This
29:42who manages
29:43this racket
29:44it's a bit
29:46fear
29:47not to be killed
29:50of not being
29:52my family
29:53of not
29:54of not
29:55not to suffer
29:56what
29:57for my cup
29:58or anyway
30:04you get to say yes
30:06if the mamman
30:07it's not enough
30:07the men are coming
30:08of the organization
30:09and they take care of it
30:10how did it happen
30:11in Itoan
30:12who was 20 years old
30:13and it was a girl
30:14plump
30:15and always cheerful
30:16but he didn't want to
30:17more prostitution
30:18this girl
30:19who worked
30:19on the same street
30:22next to me
30:24she disappeared
30:29in fact it is no longer
30:30returned
30:31his body
30:32it was found
30:33a short distance away
30:38more or less
30:40where we worked
30:41we were saying
30:43barely
30:43recognize it
30:44when his body
30:46was
30:47past
30:48own
30:49of the news
30:51fast
30:52fast
30:54of this costume
30:56red
30:56that she
30:57he wore them
31:00we could understand
31:01which was
31:02Itoan
31:03it's been by now
31:05ate
31:06from
31:06the animals
31:11emotions
31:12Indeed
31:13Not
31:15they are toning
31:26Here you are
31:26Isoche put us
31:27a month to understand
31:28why did they bring it
31:29in Italy
31:29to leave each other
31:30convince
31:31to go out on the street
31:32dressed like that
31:32and then to go up
31:33on the first car
31:34with the first customer
31:35and she was lucky
31:37because with her
31:38Judith
31:38he used
31:39persuasion
31:49Now
31:50Isoche is acting good
31:51work without creating
31:52problems
31:53and is obedient
31:53and Judith
31:54can make her sit down
31:55next to him
31:55to see
31:56how they live
31:57the rich of dreams
31:58also in Nigeria
32:05rice and tomato
32:06at lunch
32:07as always
32:07little and not even that good
32:09but expensive
32:1050 euros per week
32:12then there are
32:13500 euros per month
32:15for rent
32:15there are the bills
32:16there is heating
32:17the phone calls
32:18when they call you
32:19in Nigeria
32:20she's become good
32:21to do the math
32:22Isoche
32:36there are clothes
32:37cosmetics
32:38the hairdresser
32:39the medicines
32:40all imported
32:41naturally
32:42everything at a higher price
32:43there are gifts
32:44to do to the mamman
32:45to keep her happy
32:46We see
32:47then what is there
32:48there is the joint
32:49what is his name
32:50the piece of sidewalk
32:51they work on
32:52which depends
32:52from the street
32:53on the street
32:54but it can arrive
32:54even up to
32:55at 300 euros per month
33:03she's become good
33:04to do the math
33:05Isoche
33:05it must be
33:06because in the end
33:07beats everything from there
33:08the money
33:09the debt
33:10they make a contract
33:12to here
33:13This
33:14sum of euros
33:19let's say
33:20how many are there
33:21not exactly
33:22how many months
33:23of work
33:24the girls
33:25they can't do it
33:26own
33:26to
33:30think
33:31how much money
33:32I am
33:32they can
33:33imagine them
33:34And
33:36when they arrive
33:37in Europe
33:38that make themselves
33:39I count
33:39of what
33:41they have to do
33:42to realize
33:43let's say
33:44that sum
33:45Here you are
33:46the debt
33:47the debt
33:48it's the center
33:48of everything
33:49it's the key
33:50that greenhouse
33:51the door
33:51of the prison
33:52of the slaves
33:52sexual
33:53of the trade
33:53of any
33:54nationality
33:55are
33:55because when
33:56they leave
33:57from their
33:57country of origin
33:58the girls
33:59like Isoche
33:59they contract
34:00a debt
34:00which will have to
34:01to repay
34:01with the proceeds
34:02of their work
34:03there is the price
34:04of the ticket
34:05the cost
34:05of the journey
34:06There are
34:07the documents
34:07and the permits
34:08to enter
34:08in Europe
34:09the wheels
34:10to anoint
34:10to avoid
34:11the controls
34:12it takes money
34:13a lot of money
34:14but really so many
34:15from 40,000
34:16to 75,000 euros
34:17Isoche
34:18to his mamman
34:19he owes it to him
34:2035,000
34:31working hard
34:32not the work
34:33who believed
34:34to do
34:34naturally
34:35but that
34:35that in the end
34:36she was forced
34:37to accept
34:37from 8 in the morning
34:39at 10 pm
34:40or
34:40from 10 pm
34:41at 5 in the morning
34:4225 euros
34:43to customer
34:44average rate
34:45of Northern Italy
34:46a girl
34:47like Isoche
34:47can put us
34:48a year and a half
34:49or two years
34:49to repay the debt
35:00the problem
35:01is that over time
35:01instead of decreasing
35:03the debt
35:03increases
35:04the rent
35:05eating
35:05the joint
35:06to the rhythm
35:07of 40,000 euros
35:08per year
35:09to which are added
35:10the money
35:11that they would like to have
35:11send
35:12to families
35:13At home
35:13to help them
35:14and that we need to
35:15find
35:15somehow
35:15because one of the reasons
35:17so the girls
35:17like Isoche
35:18they left
35:34rice and tomatoes
35:36tomatoes and rice
35:37or
35:37pizza by the slice
35:38or a cappuccino
35:39the accounts to be done
35:41to calculate the debt
35:42the road
35:43the customers
35:43the sign of the cross
35:45to go back home
35:45all in one piece
35:46the cold
35:47fear
35:48the violence
35:48the humiliation
36:00no one forced me
36:01starting
36:01I think Isoche
36:02no one forced me
36:04in the trap
36:05I did it myself
36:07by my own free choice
36:08but that wasn't it
36:09that I expected
36:10when I left
36:11this situation
36:12and no way out
36:14actually
36:15a way out
36:16there would be
36:17ask for help
36:18to a community
36:19but this
36:20for Isoche
36:20it's not easy
36:21isolated
36:22in that piece
36:23from Africa to Italy
36:24that is not heard
36:25to leave
36:25and then
36:26the communities
36:27helpful
36:27to accept
36:28someone like Isoche
36:28they ask
36:29a gesture
36:30of good will
36:30a complaint
36:31but Isoche
36:33he doesn't want to do it
36:34he's scared
36:34he's scared
36:36that something happens
36:36to his family
36:37that they do
36:38of evil
36:38to his mother
36:39Certain
36:40they would give her
36:41the residence permit
36:42for legal reasons
36:44they would arrest Judith
36:45and its exploiters
36:45they would prosecute them
36:46but the bureaucracy
36:48in Italy
36:48it's so complex
36:49the process of the trials
36:51so long
36:51and in the end
36:52the penalties inflicted
36:53so light
36:53that Isoche
36:55he doesn't feel like it
36:56it's a problem
36:57that we have already seen
36:58in other stories
36:58mafia stories
36:59for example
37:00witnesses of justice
37:01who have reported
37:02the lace
37:02and then
37:03they found each other
37:04alone
37:04Here you are
37:05sometimes
37:06it also applies to girls
37:07like Isoche
37:21in a few hours
37:22it will be dark
37:23in the evening
37:24in winter
37:24arrive soon
37:25in northern Italy
37:26and as soon as they light up
37:27the street lamps
37:28it will be time
37:28to do the parade
37:29and get back on the streets
37:30of Turin
37:31to die of cold
37:32between a car
37:33and the other
37:46in the meantime though
37:46it's still day
37:47and Isoche
37:48he can go around
37:49among the people
37:50pretending
37:51for a moment
37:52to be people
37:52she too
37:58but it's not like that
37:59Isoche is not people
38:00she's not a girl
38:0220 years old
38:03a young woman
38:04who goes to the supermarket
38:05to buy
38:05what she needs
38:06who goes to the restaurant
38:07to eat
38:07whatever he wants
38:08who goes to the dentist
38:09or from the doctor
38:10if something hurts her
38:11Isoche is not even
38:13a person
38:13he's a ghost
38:15without a body
38:16and above all
38:16without a voice
38:17because unlike
38:18of other young women
38:20like her
38:20Isoche has no documents
38:22she is an illegal immigrant
38:23forced by her condition
38:25to live in that world
38:26parallel
38:26in a world apart
38:28made of violence
38:29and exploitation
38:39it's invisible
38:40Isoche
38:40that's his life
38:42it will be like this forever
38:43because of course
38:45the debt
38:45it grows out of all proportion
38:46but it's not infinite
38:47and sooner or later
38:49if he does his job well
38:50if he obeys
38:51if she's good
38:51and if it is also found
38:52some papagyros
38:53who gives her some money
38:54Perhaps
38:55in three years
38:56he will be able to pay it
38:57and she will be free
39:05free
39:05what will he do then
39:07Isoche
39:07Isoche
39:08Rose Eich Pitani
39:10twenty-three years old
39:11busy
39:12since he was twenty
39:13a prostitute
39:15a slave
39:15a simple body
39:16from the sidewalk
39:17these are his words
39:18what will he do
39:19he will return to the road
39:20because that one
39:21it's the only life
39:22who knows
39:22and what can he do
39:23climbing
39:24on her very high heels
39:25with that absurd wig
39:26and the bag is full
39:27of Chinese condoms
39:29or
39:30she will become one too
39:31a mamman
39:31and will order
39:32a girl
39:33to the recruiters
39:34of the Nigerian mafia
39:35and then another
39:36and another one
39:36what will he do
39:37Isoche?
39:39Here you are
39:39we're coming
39:40at our turning point
39:41at our thirteenth hour
39:43the moment
39:44where everything changes
39:45at least for us
39:46as we are telling it
39:47this story
40:03Isoche thinks about many things
40:05while walking around Turin
40:06his distracted steps
40:07they brought it
40:08at Porta Nuova station
40:09where there are lots of people
40:11so many indifferent people
40:12to an invisible ghost
40:13like her
40:14and she too
40:15and his thoughts
40:20but there is that man
40:21on the package
40:22in the square
40:23curved
40:23with the face
40:24in your hands
40:25who cries
40:35Here you are
40:36when we asked ourselves
40:37what Isoche would have done
40:38if it would have become
40:39she too
40:40a mamman
40:41a boss
40:41of the concentration camp
40:43us
40:43we already knew it
40:44the answer
40:45because there are
40:46the submerged
40:47and the saved
40:48as he tells
40:49the writer Primo Levi
40:50in one of the books
40:51on his experience
40:52in the extermination camp
40:54of Auschwitz
40:54the submerged
40:55that die
40:56and the saved
40:57who make it
40:58or because they are luckier
40:59or because they know
41:00adapt better
41:01to perverse logic
41:02and diabolical
41:03of the field
41:04even at cost
41:05to sacrifice
41:06one's humanity
41:07Here you are
41:08Isoche
41:08she is one of the saved
41:10but be careful
41:10she
41:11manages to save
41:12even one's own soul
41:13would never have become
41:15a boss
41:15and not even a mamman
41:243pm
41:25our
41:26thirteenth hour
41:27the hour when everything changes
41:29why instead
41:30to go straight ahead
41:31and think
41:32to their own problems
41:33which are many
41:34and they are big
41:34instead of listening
41:35only
41:36the most ferocious part
41:37and bad
41:37of one's own anger
41:39Isoche
41:39is getting closer
41:40to that man
41:40who cries
41:41and asks him
41:42what is there
41:42what can it do
41:43to help him
41:44the man
41:45his name is Claudio
41:46and lives in Aosta
41:47he came to Turin
41:49because there
41:49in that big city
41:50where he knows no one
41:51it's practically
41:52an invisible one
41:53him too
41:53and can afford
41:55to be sad
41:55and also cry
41:56among the people
42:04Claudio is sad
42:05because the wife
42:06he left him
42:07bringing with him
42:08the little daughter
42:09he feels alone
42:10and that beautiful girl
42:11who is interested in him
42:12it strikes him a lot
42:20for that day
42:21Claudio becomes a customer
42:23but then he feels ashamed
42:24because he understood it
42:25he knows her
42:26the story of Isoche
42:27and then do one thing
42:28which usually
42:29the other customers
42:30they don't do it
42:30but he is a special type
42:32accustomed to committing
42:33even politically
42:34to change things
42:35that he doesn't like
42:36so he contacts others like him
42:38and together with them
42:39I founded an association
42:40the U association
42:41which has the main purpose
42:43to notify
42:44the other customers
42:45of the conditions
42:46of life
42:47of the girls
42:47like Isoche
42:48just to understand
42:50for what reason
42:51all of us
42:52we went en masse
42:53because this is the truth
42:55to look for girls
42:56in the night
42:58of our cities
42:59and in our metropolises
43:01even knowing
43:05that we were going to look for
43:07of paid self-service
43:09actually
43:09we found some slaves
43:11meanwhile
43:12Isoche's life
43:13it goes on
43:14day after day
43:15week after week
43:16month after month
43:17for almost three years
43:18and then something happens
43:20Isoche's mother
43:21he gets sick
43:22they called her
43:23from Nigeria
43:24and they told her
43:25that his mother
43:25he has cancer
43:26and he's dying
43:27it takes money
43:28a lot of money
43:29for the treatments
43:30and for operations
43:31Isoche
43:32work harder
43:32and finds them
43:33but he feels it
43:34from the voice
43:35when he talks to her
43:35that there is nothing left to do
43:37and this
43:38it makes her angry
43:39Certain
43:39there has always been anger
43:41that anger
43:42that accompanies her
43:42since he understood
43:43of having been cheated
43:44as she herself says
43:45it's been years
43:46who has it inside
43:47that anger
43:48but now
43:48there is another one
43:49of a different type
43:50why suddenly
43:51all his life
43:52it doesn't make sense anymore
43:53the road
43:54the humiliations
43:55the violence
43:56he accepted
43:57to become a slave
43:58out of fear
43:59Certain
43:59but also for his mother
44:00for the illusion
44:02to be able to help her
44:03with his work
44:03that job too
44:04like a good daughter
44:05but now
44:07that his mother
44:07he's dying
44:08what's the point?
44:09what's the point?
44:10to be a slave
44:11and then
44:12it happens that the mother
44:13of Isoche
44:14he dies
44:14he no longer had everything
44:16it didn't make sense anymore
44:18fear
44:19of being beaten
44:20to be killed
44:24I didn't care anymore
44:26almost nothing
44:27I just wanted
44:30to go away
44:31get rid of it
44:32of everything
44:33what
44:36what was in my hands
44:38Here you are
44:39to resist
44:39to adapt
44:41in that situation
44:46those were
44:47I say
44:52Almost
44:52my
44:54reborn
44:55I say
44:56she's my mother
44:56who saved me
44:57that's how it happens
44:58that Isoche
44:59he goes to the mamman
45:00and tells her
45:01that will never come back
45:02On Pavement
45:02which closed
45:03with that life
45:04that she doesn't care anymore
45:05let them do that
45:06that they want
45:07I'll kill him too
45:07but she
45:08he closed
45:09and then
45:10it happens that they look for
45:11really want to kill her
45:16there are three men
45:17of the organization
45:18people paid on purpose
45:19to punish the girls
45:21and they want to do them
45:22like Itohan
45:23beat her to death
45:24and they almost succeed
45:25if it weren't
45:26for a neighbor
45:26who feels
45:27all that noise
45:28and call the police
45:29Isoche
45:30they find it
45:30on the asphalt
45:31with the right eye
45:32split
45:33and the bones of the face
45:34fractured
45:34in a coma
45:36happens
45:37that when he wakes up
45:38from the coma
45:39in the hospital
45:39Isoche
45:40he doesn't know what to do
45:41nor where to go
45:42and then
45:43think about that man
45:44the one who was crying
45:45in front of the station
45:46of Porta Nuova
45:46which then
45:47he became his friend
45:48and as soon as he can
45:49escape from Osta
45:50from him
45:57and in the end
45:58it happens that Isoche
45:59that he would only like
46:00forget
46:01he finds himself
46:02at Claudio's house
46:03that in the meantime
46:04he wrote a book
46:04about her
46:05to Dear Gun
46:06and the girl
46:06from Benin City
46:07and which is in the center
46:08of a network
46:09of 10,000 people
46:1010,000 customers
46:11that like him
46:12they work to change
46:13themselves
46:14and things
46:15and so
46:15without having planned it
46:18we found each other
46:19she to follow
46:20the girls
46:21as he tells
46:21and I
46:22to follow
46:23the men
46:25it ends
46:25that Isoche
46:26she also writes
46:26a book
46:27a beautiful book
46:28in collaboration
46:29with the journalist
46:29of Panorama
46:30Laura Maragnani
46:31what is called
46:32The girls
46:33from Benin City
46:33the trade
46:34of the new slaves
46:35from Nigeria
46:36at the sidewalks of Italy
46:37from which we have drawn
46:39many details
46:40of history
46:40that we are telling
46:41and many more too
46:42of words
46:42that we used
46:43to do it
46:44like the metaphor
46:45of the submerged
46:46and the saved
46:48it ends
46:48that Isoche
46:49he writes about it
46:50many others
46:50of books
46:51who participates
46:52together with Claudio
46:53at conferences
46:53and meetings
46:54institutional
46:55that goes on television
46:56to tell
46:56his story
46:57he sees it resumed
46:58in the theater
46:59and in the end
47:00she also founds
47:00an association
47:01Isoche's house
47:02in collaboration
47:04with the Abele group
47:04it's not easy
47:05why the funds
47:06they are not here
47:07because aside
47:08some donations
47:09there is only
47:10Claudio's pension
47:11its liquidation
47:12his savings
47:13and the hours
47:13that Isoche
47:14she acts as a babysitter
47:15and as a sales assistant
47:16at the market
47:16to sell fruit
47:17and vegetables
47:20and it also ends
47:21that Claudio
47:22Isoche
47:22they get married
47:23which could
47:24seem
47:24a happy ending
47:25for our history
47:26if it weren't
47:27that it's not over
47:30why Isoche
47:31she's free now
47:32but on Italian sidewalks
47:33of girls like her
47:34that come
47:35from Eastern Europe
47:36from Africa
47:37from South America
47:37and also from China
47:38there are still some
47:40more than 45,000
47:41which is a number
47:41that makes an impression
47:42but what remains
47:43just a number
47:44cold as I am
47:45especially the big ones
47:46if we don't get involved
47:47to think
47:48that each unit
47:491, 2, 3, 4
47:50up to 45,000
47:51he is a person
47:52a woman
47:53a girl
47:54with stories
47:55equally dramatic
47:58when Isoche
47:59talk about the sidewalk
48:00he says
48:00the life of Italy
48:01when he tells
48:03that she
48:03and a girl
48:03like her
48:04they gave in
48:05the pressures
48:05of the mother
48:06he says
48:06I made up my mind
48:07to do
48:08the life of Italy
48:09the life of Italy
48:10and the recruiters
48:12of the girls
48:13who are in Nigeria
48:13the men
48:14of the organization
48:15that sell
48:16the girls
48:17like Isoche
48:17to the mothers
48:18they call them
48:19Italos
48:19Italos
48:24and well in Siti
48:25the city of Isoche
48:26they call her
48:27the Italian factory
48:28of prostitutes
48:29because it's from there
48:30which comes most
48:31some Nigerian girls
48:32that end
48:33almost all of them here
48:34on the sidewalks
48:35from us
48:35in Italy
48:39the Italian factory
48:41of prostitutes
48:42the life of Italy
48:43the Italos
48:44there is something
48:45that doesn't come back
48:46it doesn't work for me
48:47that my country
48:48be associated with this
48:50to a story
48:50of pain
48:51and violence
48:52this is not it
48:53the life of Italy
48:53I'm not like that
48:54the Italos
48:55and not because
48:56we Italians
48:57we are better than others
48:58and our name
48:59and our honor
49:00must be defended
49:01more than others
49:01but because I'm Italian
49:03this story
49:04it concerns me too
49:05it concerns us too
49:06and if so
49:07it's because we
49:08I
49:09I didn't do enough
49:10I didn't get angry enough
49:12and of this
49:13I am ashamed
49:41thank you all
49:44Thank you all.
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