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[ Title ] YOU

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MUST

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STAY SILENT

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AND
REPAY
THE MONEY

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OR

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YOU
will
DIE

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[ VO ] It once came to the attention
of police in the Netherlands

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that girls who had come
to Europe from Africa

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were disappearing from
refugee reception centres

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[ Prosecutor ] Before we started, they were by
already 100 to 40 girls that disappeared

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[ Subtitles ] WARNER TEN KATE DUTCH
NATIONAL SENIOR PUBLIC
PROSECUTOR FRO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PEOPLE SMUGGLING ZOLLE, NL

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[ Prosecutor ] We were quite sure that they were
being trafficked for prostitution reasons

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Quite soon found out that it was
a criminal organization responsible

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for trafficking the girls from Nigeria into
Europe and then spreading them out over Europe

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[ Title ] VOODOO,
MONEY
and SEX SLAVES

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[ Prosecutor ] We found out there was quite a
big organization in Nigeria as well,

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they run a kind of travel agency, this…

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bringing the girls into the plane,
once they were in the plane,

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the girls had to give the passports to

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the people that have members
of the criminal organization

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So the passports were being
used again and again and again

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And when the girls
arrived in the Netherlands,

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they didn't have any papers
and then asked for asylum

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[ VO ] This largest investigation in modern
history came to be known as the Kulvis case

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Law enforcement officers from the Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain,

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and the United States worked
together in the investigation team

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For the first time, Nigerian
police also joined the investigation

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[ Prosecutor ] When the girls
went to the asylum seeker centers,

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we gave them a mobile phone,
and we wiretap the phones

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[ Subtitles ] WARNER TEN KATE DUTCH NATIONAL SENIOR PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FRO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PEOPLE SMUGGLING ZOLLE, NL

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And then we found out that they…

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Yeah, the criminal organization
wanted to contact them,

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then we laid our hands on the…

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on the traffickers here in the Netherlands

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And then it was like a snowball,

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because once we had laid
our hands on the traffickers,

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then we could find out who they
work with in other European countries,

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but also in Nigeria

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And then, we arrested them all

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Except for Italy, they
had an action a bit later on

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And it was really a successful
action because in one day,

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we arrested over 50 people
being members of this organization

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And we also find out what goes
where and we persuaded them

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to cooperate, but the girls and that
this something that puzzled us quite a lot

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The girls when there was being
sent from Nigeria to Europe,

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they were often under the
spell of Voodoo and Juju

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And this was something
completely new for us

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They didn't want to talk
because they were so afraid

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to break the Voodoo oath

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[ Mary Anne Nwiboko ] In the European world, you
know, contract is when you…

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[ Subtitle ] SR. MARY ANNE NWIBOKO
CATANIA, ITALY

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you sign a paper about a
business you're going to do

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But the Nigerian girls—they have a
different type of contracts they sign,

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and that is—that of Voodoo

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[ Prostitute ] A chicken, the blood and everything,
you have to swallow the liver of the chicken

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It's part of the process

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You come into Europe, you don't
have a choice, you don't have a say

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It's obligated, you have to do it

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[ Mary Anne ] They would pour
animal blood on top of their head,

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then they would remove some hair from here

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They will… there are
things that are very ugly

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that they do—they give them to
drink, they would tell them “If you don't

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pay me back the money
that I used to sponsor you

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to get to Italy to become somebody

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you will be followed by this Juju

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[ Prosecutor ] At first we
thought “Voodoo… What is this?

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This is all rubbish
and we don't believe it!”

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But later on—yeah, we understood
that it was really something in Africa

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[ VO ] The girls refused to testify

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And for the first time ever,

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police in Europe had to bring a
priest from Nigeria onto the case

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But despite all the
Nigerian priest’s persuasion,

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and police assurances, only 4 of the 50
girls agreed to speak for the prosecution,

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but those 4 testimonies did
help bring the case to court

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[ Prosecutor ] We arrested people in the United
States, in the United Kingdom, in Nigeria…

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They were convicted up to
seven years of imprisonment

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Maybe one… one of them was Dutch

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But actually the rest was all
with a Nigerian background

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It's really, really profitable business

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[ Subtitles ] WARNER TEN KATE DUTCH NATIONAL SENIOR PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FRO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PEOPLE SMUGGLING ZOLLE, NL

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Think of every girl they bring into Europe

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That's paying your organization 50,000

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[ VO ] Prostitution is
legal in the Netherlands,

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but only EU citizens can work
in officially sanctioned brothels

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They pay taxes and have a
union to protect their rights

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The girls held in thrall of voodoo
can’t work in the red-light district

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[ Prosecutor ] See what the true nature
is, of this form of prostitution

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Because none of the
girls, they do it voluntarily

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They're all being pushed—one way or another

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Until now it's going on,

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only the thing is that the girls
don't come by Schiphol Airport…

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don't come into Europe by Schiphol
Airport anymore, but they go directly

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over the Mediterranean Sea to Italy,

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and the trafficking is still continuing

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[ GEO ] FORMIA, ITALY – CENTRE
FOR WOMEN AMD CHILD MIGRANTS

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[ SERGIO NAZZARO ] This huge villa, belonged to, let's say
someone that was connected with Camorra

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This was confiscated, given to this

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NGO as a safe house of trafficked girls,

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girls they were trafficked from Africa

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[ SABRINA YOUSFI ] We usually work with Nigerian
women and Africa women

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They tell them over there
you can help your family,

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I can tell you, you go to
Italy, you will do babysitting,

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you will do hair dressing, or
maybe you will just clean the houses,

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and they convince them
to go and they will tell them

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“Don't worry about
payment, about the trouble

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We will manage this and when you are over
there, you will give us back the money.”

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There's when they going into Libya,

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they start to be exploited
there even if they don't know

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[ Subtitles ] SABRINA YOUSFI PROJECT MANAGER: CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND
CHILD MIGRANTS AND VICTIMS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE FORMIA, ITALY

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They don't really know
that they are prostituted

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[ Prostitute ] We're much…So
much girls in one room

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The room is like a cage

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They picked one girl close to me

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And even, we… Nobody
suspected that it's prostitution

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So, the next day they
came for me… they said, me

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I said, 'No, I'm going to make
hair, not to sleep with men'

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They beat me

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They beat me

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They beat me hard

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Hard! They don't care. They
forced me, I was raped by 5 men

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Five

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Five

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Five

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[ Sergio ] The first things that
you understand that the…

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[ Subtitles ] SERGIO NAZZARO
MAFIA EXPERT
ROME, ITALY

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Again, there was human
trafficking, there was a slaver

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And, they're the same
colour because, this time…

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People from Nigeria… They were
enslaving their own nationality

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Why Nigerian mafia
became so prominent?

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First of all, if you have a Nigerian mafia,

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it's because the Italian
Mafia let them to work in Italy

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They weren't born as
anti colonial situation

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They were born in the
university, this imprinting

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If you believe that we are dealing
with magician stupid people... no, no, no!

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They're very high level. They are
very smart. They travel around the world

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Right for this. They are very strong in
prostitution, drugs dealing, but also deep web:

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Bitcoin…

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fraud with credit cards…

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Already, 10 years ago, the FBI, the Federal
Bureau of investigation in the United States,

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saw them as one of… the 2nd most powerful
and dangerous organized crime group

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This very ancient kind of mafia:

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the ritual ju-ju right, and then
what is the deep web, bitcoin

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Can you imagine? They are
two, incredible distant and so close!

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In one moment, you have the ju-ju rite,
something that’s ancient, it's really old, deep,

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and after you have bitcoin

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[ GEO ] CASTEL VOLTURNO
ITALY

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In this small town near Naples the
centre has preserved an air of decency,

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and it’s impossible not to notice
the large migrant population

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[ Man ] Yeah, I’m Italian

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I’m Italian!

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[ Sergio ] They built a kind of new city close
to Castel Volturno during the 60s

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for tourist purpose. After, it collapsed

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It became rotten, it
became a kind of ghost town

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And, these became the new
house for all these migrants

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When they started the first ships
from Libya to get in Lampedusa,

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there were people with
hand written 'Castel Volturno'

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There was this migration
without any kind of regulation

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You know, it was like…

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'OK, let them stay over there'

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[ VO ] And when the city sleeps,
organised crime wakes up

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[ VINCENZO AMMALIATO ] Mafia nigeriana in Castel
Volturno сan do all that they want

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And, now, Italian mafia there is no more

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[ Subtitles ] VINCENZO AMMALIATO JOUURNALIST CASTEL VOLTURNO, ITALY

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There is Italian mafia nigeriana,
but they don't take these positions

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They do just drug and prostitution

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They don't do racket like did mafia Italian

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because they know that, in Castel
Volturno, they can do drug and prostitution

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without the problem, without
control, and they do this

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The girls tend to meet clients
in so called “contact houses”,

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which are really no
more than cheap bordellos

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[ VINCENZO ] There are houses like this, with 3
rooms,and in every room there is a girl,

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and the girl does the cooking for the men

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That's, um…

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chicken… leg of a chicken

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for €5 with beer

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and sex for €5

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That's €10

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Still, the poor immigrants can go to
this 'connection house' after a day's work,

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and eat and make sex

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Yeah, there is a girl

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Just one girl

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A second…

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the third…

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See!

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[ Viktoria ] Sometimes we stay,
we did nothing, come back home

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Like yesterday, when it was raining

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When I come here, I will work

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I will take a job as a nanny, and
when I make the money I will pay you

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 I didn't understand euro, so I was…

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I'm used to naira, so I just
thought it's like 30,000 naira (€67)

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Then I agree

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I take the oath before I came

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So, when I get here, I understood the change:
we discovered €30,000 is not like 30,000 naira

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Because I swear, so I
can't say I don't want to pay

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They made me swear, to take an oath

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So, I can't refuse because of the oath

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If I don't pay, I would die

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I don't know if it will really
work or not, so I'm afraid

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When I get the money, I pay the money,
then they would just remove the curse,

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and I'm gone

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[ DR FILIPPO CASADEI ] I remember one girl

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[ Subtitles ] DR FILIPPO CASADEI PSYCHIATRIST.
VICTIM REHABILITATION MEDICAL CENTRE PALERMO, ITALY

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[ Dr Filippo ] She was OK until the day
when she received a box

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When she opened this box,
she found something in it,

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and she got crazy immediately

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Like, she started having
a very strong psychosis

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So, she had to be hospitalized

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She was out of her mind, and
she couldn't sleep anymore…

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eat

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And she didn't want to say
what was in the box because…

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probably, it was some object
that reminded her of the oaths

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[ Mary Anne ] You know, it is more or less
like psychological violence,

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[ Subtitles ] SR.MARY ANNE NWIBOKO
CATANIA,ITALY

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[ Mary Anne ] because these people—they believe in this

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When they come in here, they
tell you “Don't speak with the whites,

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with Diobu, don't speak with the police,
don't even speak with a reverend sister.”

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They understand now.
Because

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obviously, the girls, they have
no idea that when they come here,

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the state will help you to liberate you

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[ GEO ] FORMIA, ITALY – CENTRE
FOR WOMEN AMD CHILD MIGRANTS

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[ Blessy Iji ] When I came to Europe,
I realised I couldn't do it

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[ Subtitles ] BLESSY IJI

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[ Blessy ] I just told the person
that I can't do prostitution to pay you

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But, it's your choice if you
want to do it, but for me, I can't

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So, I decided to, you know…

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talk to the UN protection

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I asked for protection

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No, I'm not afraid because…
Why aren't I afraid?

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ecause I believe in God

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It's only God that can, you know,
put a curse on you that will affect you

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No man, no woman have
the right to give you a curse

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Because, for me, I
don't believe in the curse

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I believe…

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The only thing I'm afraid
of is my family in Africa

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[ Sabine Leermakers ] Victims use these kinds of statements in
which they say “I don't believe in Voodoo!”

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[ Subtitles ] SABINE LEERMAKERS. PROJECT LEADER, STUDY ON LINK BETWEEN RELIGION AMD HUMAN TRAFFICKING CAPELLE AAN DEN USSEL,NL

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[ Sabine ] So our research shows that this…

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these words are not to be
taken to be… literal, literal

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With this statement, they
don't really say that they…

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They don't acknowledge
the existence of spirits,

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but they say that they don't
associate with these kinds of spirits

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And when…

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If you don't know the
meaning of these words,

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then that—that can create, like,
a misunderstanding between

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aid workers or police
enforcement and victims

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[ Rob Kelder ] Most of the time when you are white
person and you ask a Nigerian about Voodoo,

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[ Subtitles ] ROB KELDER CARE COORDINATOR VOR
VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEEUWARDEN, NL

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[ Rob ] they say “No! No, I don't believe that!”

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Because they know that
we don't have that here

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But when you show them that you
know about Voodoo, and how it works,

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and that you take it seriously

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Then most of time, they say
“Yes, I also took the Voodoo oath

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It's like a contract

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And yes, it bothers me—they
haunt me in my dreams sometimes

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It really depends on what
detectives are working on the case

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Some say “Yeah, we
do take it seriously.”

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But some also had just
call it ‘that Voodoo bullshit

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And it's just, they just
want to get a permit here

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that makes stories—blah, blah, blah

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[ Translation ] Sex City

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[ VO ] The biggest problem today is
that most of the trade is conducted online

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It’s rare to find anywhere in the
world where black-market commodities

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are not offered at the
lowest possible price

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[ Rob ] …or hidden, like in
hidden Telegram groups,

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or direct messages on Insta, or Snapchat

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So it's hard to pick it up

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for us, but also for the police, I think

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[ VO ] This market like any other is
very mobile and can adapt quickly

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For example, about
16,000 girls from Nigeria

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went to Russia with a fan
ID for the 2018World Cup

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A third of them never left,

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and occasionally appear in criminal reports

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[ Dr Filippo ] Rituals are always
changing, for instance

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Or, depending on where
and by whom it was done

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For instance, my
colleague treated a case

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where the woman
was affected by ju-ju

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But, then, her father
was a ju-ju man himself

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And he helped her to
get rid of the bad ju-ju

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And the physician and the
woman's father worked together

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in order to help this girl
overcome the problem

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They do magic, but they also engage

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in blackmailing and violence and everything

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[ Sabine ] They are scared of Madame and all the
system because they threaten their family,

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in Nigeria, also

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They are all connected
from Nigeria to Italy,

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they have people so the Madame may say “She
doesn't want to prostitute

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she's not paying me back

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You need to threaten the family over there

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And then it can kill the family
over there, they can do anything

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[ Rob ] Well, I think Europe doesn't

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really care about this group

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That's the hard truth. I think

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As long

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as normal people

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don't see it

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There's no problem

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[ Sabrina ] These people are the kind
of the ghosts of the society

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Nobody really cares about them,

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because you're least see
the Black women on the street,

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but you don't realize that maybe
your husband is going with them

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And maybe go with
somebody that is really a ghost

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[ Subtitles ] SABRINA YOUSFI PROJECT MANAGER: CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND CHILD
MIGRANTS AND VICTIMS OF GENDER BASED VIOL FORMIA, ITALY

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[ Sabrina ] to society maybe allows them to do
really everything they want with them

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Because they know
that if they disappear,

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nobody cares. Nobody will
know where they go or not

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[ Mary Anne ] There should be a law from the
government against the clients

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Because I believe that
if there are no clients,

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there will be no ‘goods.’

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So if the clients could be punished,

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if they see someone who
stops on the road to pick a girl,

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that you know quite
well—she's not a prostitute

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because these are forced slave girls

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My request always:

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don't be afraid to denounce

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or to report to the
police at organizations,

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anybody who is making
use of you as a girl!”

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If you come in here and you discover
that they are using you for sex business,

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please don't hesitate to report yourself,

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you will be helped, you will not
be repatriated back to Nigeria!

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[ Prostitute ] It's not as easy as that

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If possible, you will take me back to
camp, but I don't want to go back to camp

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 I don't want to go back and stay

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I've already lived this and
I need to make something

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going back to do what?

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I can't just go back like they do and
say my family should take care of me

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It's not possible, so…

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[ VO ] The ‘Come-back
girls’ are often not welcome

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After all, they went away to make money,

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but returned with nothing

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Families often worry that the
returned girls will attract more trouble

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That’s why the girls try hard to stay here

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[ Sabrina ] And there is a lot of trafficking

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from Ivory Coast, so they come here

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They stay a few days. And they
are already organized to go to France

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So they are trafficked this time

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It's a new thing for us because
usually the Nigerian trafficking stops here

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[ VO ] 150 arrests were made as part
of the Kulvis case, the biggest ever

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[ Prosecutor ] This case still isn't closed

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So yeah, we still after
some of the big fish,

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we want to execute
some of the sentences and

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[ Subtitles ] WARNER TEN KATE DUTCH NATIONAL SENIOR PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
FRO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PEOPLE SMUGGLING ZOLLE, NL

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[ Prosecutor ] as some of the perpetrators
still have to stand trial

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[ VO ] Traffickers have been convicted in the
Netherlands, France,

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Ireland, Portugal,
Greece, Italy and Germany

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But logistics, transit points and countries

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involved in this underworld
business constantly change

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[ SUBTITLES ] WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
NATALYA KADYROVA
CAMERA OPERATORS
SERGEY TSYGANOV
ALEKSEY POSYSAEV
PRODUCER
OLGA KIRY
VIDEO EDITORS
SERGEY DYACHKOV
ALEKSEY NEKAZAKOV
SOUND EDITO
ALEKSANDR VOROBYEV

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MUSIC
KSENIA PRASOLOVA
NARRATOR
DAVID A. WATSON
EDITOR
IRINA GURKINA
DEPUTY HEAD OF RTDOC CHANNEL
GALINA ARKHIPOVA
HEAD OF RTOC CHAMEL
EKATERINA YAKOVLEVA

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