The Mafia Is Trashing Italy... Literally (Part 1)
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- In the city of Naples, Italy, the Mafia has controlled the waste-management industry for decades -- dumping and burning trash across its rolling hills and vineyards. In 1994, the European Union declared the situation an official environmental emergency, and things have only gotten worse since then. When we investigated the situation we found mutated sheep, poisoned mozzarella, alarming rates of cancer, and pissed off farmers ready to push back against the Camorra, Italy's most powerful and dangerous criminal organization (and the government that enables it).
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Mafia and government in Italy eating in the same plate.
It's difficult for us understand the differences between illegal crime and legal crime.
no different in America or Britain, look up the knnedy assisanation, they always work very closely with conventional criminals because it gives them pausible deniability, they use them and then come in and arrest later and are called heroes when they created them all along and then they prop up there next puppet criminal who will later be fucked aswell
is not true, we have massive anti-mafia operation by the army
"It's difficult for us understand the differences between illegal crime and legal crime."
Because there are none.
*Italy has the strictest laws against mafia in the world so dumbass shut up. Learn what is the Article 41 bis prison regime, before opening your filtfhy mouth saying bullshits*
Malleus Maleficarum they created that article foo.
0:54 Spittin bars.
Being a environmental activist in Italy must fucking suck
It sucks pretty much everywhere
+Open the Light AUA probably you don't know italian mafia :) try to be an environmental activist in naples ;)
+Davide isn't the government paying off maffia type people to shut people up and cover up their mistakes?
+Open the Light AUA other way around buddy we pay off everyone dont fuck with the mafia
+Open the Light AUA only in Southern Italy.
8:49 synchronized hand gestures
*gestures in sync* Italians...
God bless this country
Italiani 😁🇮🇹
*I don't realise this obsession about hand gestures of italians, cause any people in the world do it...in addition they are describing an object (as the dimension) not hand gesturing*
I fucking love how Italian people talk .
I'm from Italy, Sicily.. i understand every problem of my country.. we're the last country in europe.. there're too much corruption.. too much political problems.. People thinks that Italy is the best (for them we have the best food, the best cars, the best clothes, the best everything) in the world.. but in reality is not!!
We have to change our thinks for a new Italy!
iMaux not to offend you but open your eyes no1 especially here in the USA anywhere thinks you all have the best of anything except maybe the best at destroying your own Homeland....
iMaux you have cosa nostra is everything only if people weren’t too greedy
No one thinks Italy is the best
Joni XD you should visit there. Florence Tuscany etc. it’s one of the most amazing places with the most amazing culture and people anywhere in the world. Like the OP said though they have tons of problems. One of which being they have WAY too many politicians. Bureaucracy in Italy makes America look like a libertarian paradise
Ralph Morales 😂😂😂
I'm impressed that they got Freddy Mercury back from the dead for this documentary.
Doomguy Clearly Lele is a cover name ;)
+Doomguy LOL Wanted to make the same comment.
Nothing to laugh abot this video..
🤣🤦🏻♀️ I hate you
Why? Bono is already in this documentary 8:38
The music of this video.. it's so creppy and so right for the subject
I love listening to Italian.
Gen Speaking Me too!
Gen Speaking It is a very beautiful language.
Cheeky Kent mate, im italian, and i find this realy offensive and racist, not funny.
hamajangz I beg to disagree, German is the most beautiful language to listen.
Gen Speaking Yeah really nice english accent too. But one time heard an italian trying to pronounce asian words, his accent sounds like an indian. Not meant as insult, just strange.
background music gives an eerie feel to this video.
Really? Personally I found the corruption and disregard for all life on Earth the most eerie.
I guess we have different opinions.
It’s a fitting soundtrack
He hands kept going everywhere when she was driving 😂
What did you expect? She's
A) Italian
B) very animated about what she's talking about because she's invested in it.
@@Sgt.Dornan A)
The deputy's speech was truly fascinating and grand.
I love how how clear and frank everything was. Very convincing and enlightening.
Why they don't sell the garbage to the Sweden? currently they are looking for more garbage to process
made my day. lol.
Or germany
We took your country hahahah 😂😂😂 you won't do nothing about too 😂
probably more expensive
Mama Merkel wants it
Thank you Vice for making such documentaries on all these different things, love very single video! More people should know about you guys!
It’s crazy I lived in Naples Italy on a military base and went to middle school there, I remember specifically in 2008 when the mafia forced waste management workers to first go on strike, it’s amazing (not in a good way but generally speaking) how rapidly and just how far the organization has pushed the agenda now.
8:45 Seeing that deformed sheep, disturbed me for days.
It was. A death bunny.. believe me im italian
@@italian_pewallboy1260 What's a "death bunny"?
@@gmx1100 yeah what is dat
@@gmx1100 WTF go back to school
Damn! The mutated sheep were hard to look at. Messed up.
Vice, you do fascinating work with these news stories. Keep up the good work.
am I the only one that noticed the trippy ass background music at the start of the video
+Frank Zappa Seems like it is played backwards
no...
I love this. I have been in Italy for two years, mainly Naples (or Napoli), and this is a very true issue here.
hearing about a lamb born with a perfect rabbit head fucked me up.
this is crazy how mafia playing with peoples life! I hope one day people rise up against them !!
Lived in Naples for three years and personally experienced the problems with the trash, health regulates, and the Camorra.
You're not alone. Been on a Vice Marathon for days now.
Listening to somebody speak Italian is music to my ears.
Truly, its amazingly smooth, I don't think I have ever described a language as smooth before, but Italian is.
fact: it is imposible for an italian to talk with their hands behind their back
Is that like an etiquette thing?
Well done Vice for highlighting this!
Are those mafia gang call "Passione"?
I see what you did there hehe
7:05 - the notorius italian move)
Along with all the garbage, Naples is also having a problem with illegal organ trafficking. This is disgusting.
And it's happening in China, India, Czech, Bosnia, Russia, etc.
lol, where did you read such idiocy? In Italy organ transplants are realized exclusively at public hospitals, our healthcare system obstructs any kind of organ traffic, because transplants are free and organs can't be sold.
Cane Rognoso I heard from a friend who went to Italy and was advised to stay away from Naples for that very reason so it's probably just a rumor but I wouldn't be surprised if there was organ Trafficking (not necessarilly transplants). But I don't don't live there so your probably right.
Valentin Lance It's not necessary to live in Naples to realize that all your friend said is bullshit....Naples has a lot of social problems due to mafia, but it's simply absurd that anyone could really think that in a city of western world, in a EU country that has a national welfare could exist a system of organ traffic...we are speaking of Italy, not about Congo, Haiti, Afghanistan or any other 3rd world country.
Turists can be advised to hide money and jeweles when they visit Naples, but it's simply inconceivable that a turist could be worried to visit that city because he could be kidnapped and killed for his organs. You and your friend should be dumb if you really think in Italy there is the risk to be killed for organ trades.
Cane Rognoso You're probably right.
I just looked at a report that says still in 2020 the same toxic trash issue exists in this part of Italy. It is indeed a serious crime.
Great information!
watching this video a person could think that the whole italy is flood by garbage...pity that in reality it happened exclusively in the area of naples....
next time you should make a video in which you show Detroit entitling it "The Usa a 3rd world country"
the video is right.. garbage in naples is a full italian problem.. the chain of garbage often starts within northern italy industries and their toxic waste dumped in southern italy, with the help of camorra.. so the whole italy is linked in this shame.. also the video is quite outdated, but same garbage problems are now happening in rome and in sicily, check it out
Cane Rognoso For many tourists Naples represent the stereotypes of Italy..pizza, spaghetti, mozzarella, o sole mio, mafia, romance, so every italian abroad is linked to that. Hence the title. And the italian problem is that our fucking toxic garbage now excavated in ould fields has still labeled the name of lombard and venetian industries. There are millions of tons of that shit fullfilling our dumps, so there is no more space for ours. And, again, it's not just our problem, if you sell cocaine in daylight in the center of milan you get caught by police in 5 minutes, but for 30 years trucks from nordern italy without any licence discharged every kind of toxic shit even in daylight, even in inhabited areas, and nobody got caught. It's not just "mafia", but a whole awesome and corrupted system, from the nord to the south. We had no industries but a lot of fields. This is a true fully italian shame.. don't try to discharge it on the south, in the video you can see what kind of serious warm hearted persons are fighting for that.
The city of Naples is reduced in this state because of the Italian state that has always made the interests of the North and of the lobbies leaving southern italy in the mafia's hands.So actually the shame is Italy my dear, not Naples which is only a colony since 1860.
Pontifex Maximus mafia in Italy is well widespread in all the regions, except in the two regions which aren't Italian from an anthroplogical point of view: Sardinia and South Tyrol. The bullshits you have written are only neoborbonic rants, Mafia and Camorra in Naples isn't a recent organization, it have been existing for centuries
they did
Naples is the worst city in Italy, the most corrupted and trashy. Italy is not like that
Cosa Nostra e Sidda in Sicilia
'Ndrangheta in Calabria
Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia
Camorra in Campania
Basilischi in Basilicata
Banda della Magliana a Roma
Anonima sarda in Sardegna
@@arijanaberisha2914 *Idiot from the poorest and corrupted country in Europe (ALBANIA), don't try to associate Sardinia with mafia organizations, because it's the 3rd italian region with the lowest crime rate today and Anonima Sarda was a journalistic terms only referred to some few kidnappings (only 40 in 140 years) occurred in Sardinia in the past and ended decades ago...those kidnappings were done by isolated bandits, without any pyramidal structure and without collusion with local politics and population, unlike mafia organizations*
"VICE" guy is awesome 70s & 80s style,
I love this style, nice looking
that couple that was speaking.....she wouldnt let her dude say a fucking thing....lol
I love Italy, and I personally think Italian's are the nicest people iv'e ever met. It's sad to see this happening, hope things get better from England.
This makes me want to cry. And I haven't cried in over 20 years.
I love you ❤❤❤
I love you bro
I've heard that creepy background music on other VICE documentaries but I can't remember in which ones.
Well, this was certainly depressing. I really feel for these people. Italy is one of my favorite places to visit. I can understand this happening in China and Africa but, not in Naples. It's so sad.
This kind of reminds me of the movie Idiocracy:(heaping mounds of trash
normally if u dig further, those gang criminal investigation officers are receiving monthly stipend from those organizations... so, who gonna care if even the chief of police do not want to act... it's very easy to stamp down on criminal organizations... but, who cares, they got their monthly stipend rite?
where is the prize as best investigator? I live in naples and you got it! but not only officiers, mostly politicians!! and even judges!! and you see the system berlusconi created? mafia is good in small cities because they move lots of votes by purchasing the poorest and most desperate people.. so there is no real interest in deleting all of it.. also because if they arrest all of mafia.. many of them will start to "sing".. and many politicians could go in the fucknig jail
Vice!! my absolute fav channel!!!
I was in Napoli in 2008 and I saw the trash heaps. It was so sad.
The mafia is only part of the problem and more of a symptom. Problem is the mentallity. The people around Napoli are among the laziest in the world, always cutting corners, always trying to make a living with the least effort or honest work. I've seen them throwing out their garbage through windows, because they're to lazy to go down and put it into a trash-can. This has been going on for centuries, at least since the times of the moors. But ask them why they are so damn lazy and filthy, they'll start blaming the mafia, the government, the EU, god or anybody else but themselves. Shame really. The country could be a beautiful tree, if the apples wouldn't be rotten to the core.
Well said.
+fenriz218 First off, you weren't around during the Moor occupation, so that's a rediculous statemnt. Second, the Moors were in Sicily, this is Napoli. I spent a long time in Italy and they are no more lazy than anyone else. I live in NY and plenty of times I see people throw their trash on the street when there is a garbage can just feet away.
+fenriz218 what country? Naples?
Remember Naples and Campania was under Spanish rule for nearly 300 years!! which hasn't helped either!! The Spanish aren't the most intelligent people shall we just say.
I live in NYC. Its VERY clean. Despite the black people throwing shit out there apartments, and the young kids thinking its cool to litter. Otherwise, not really a strong comparison. There are no shit lined streets like in this doc.
Italy has the best good thing and the Worst thing in the same time...
I know,I'm just used to vice dealing with real up to date problems,I would of made a documentary about when the crisis was at its worst a few years back!,none the less I still love their work ;)
I was born and raised in Sicily. There is a lot of garbage all over Italy, but Napoli was the most notorious. I went to Napoli a few times as a child to get on the Autostrada to go skiing in the Alps, and when we drove through Napoli, we saw, as in the video, all the mountains of garbage and the Camorristi, and the Nigerians that sell for them. Napoli isn't what it used to be.
l italia colpisce ancora...
@Leviathan 2 il sud è cosi anche grazie al nord che se ne approfitta
This is nothing compared to Mumbai, it's the most polluted garbage city in the world. Mountains upon mountains of trash u can see from the air. The shore line of the ocean doesn't go blue till about 3miles out cause if all the garbage in the water an sewage going out. It's truly horrible place.
Please if you wanna talk about mumbai's pollution, go under a mubai city video
Dante The Demon Slayer wrong video tho
I have been all over Italy. The trash is a problem in Calabria and around Milan as well. There are plenty of wonderful areas but there is no excuse for the state that many cities are in considering its wealth. The disregard and desecration of historic landmarks in Rome, for instance, is shocking.
Love these documentaries
Music is very creepy
Is this Italy !!! Europe !!!! I can not believe !
+mohamad hadad Italy is no Europe. It has no european identity. It's an island
Pauls LOL
mohamad hadad It's true. Italians don't consider themselves european. They are too nationalistic for that
+mohamad hadad and Naples is not Italy.
At least its a city from Italy, you cant eliminate the city and its people !
Looks like a good description of yourself, it sums it up pretty much..
Top Journalism and a top video, 1 hour well spent :)
Nah, my boss is from Italy, he say's this is 100% true.
I went to Italy this past July and I loved it! One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, but when we landed in Naples on a ferry from Greece, it looked like....trash. It's like the Detroit of Italy. The food they gave us looked shitty too.Everywhere else I went looked beautiful, just not Naples
Si, penso tu abbia ragione. Io vivo a Reggio Emilia, 200.000 abitanti e problemi diversi.. pero' avendo parenti ad Ischia, passo da Napoli 2/3 volte l'anno. Fino a qualche mese ( passando in taxi dalla stazione centrale al Beverello), la situazione era la stessa di altre grandi aree italiane ( tra cui Milano, Torino... mettici Bologna) ecc
Interesting video thx for posting
THIS IS TRUE BUT THIS SITUATION IS/WAS ONLY IN NAPLES NORD ITALY IS CLEAN
I LIVE IN ITALY,TURIN CITY
Sarà ma è sempre Italia Napoli quindi o ci svegliamo oppure ciao ciao... :(
Ma Napoli è sempre Italia... Ci dobbiamo svegliare :(
Ma cosa dici? Io abito a brescia e qui è pieno di rifiuti tossici sotterrati nei campi.
That woman at 13:48 needs to let her husband talk! Goddamn!
You explained that perfectly.
certainly do
this kind of problems are only in Naples and some areas of the South, the rest of Italy is clean. Anyway, this is a perfect video for let the italian haters say bullshit about us.
Pauls feel free to hate me or my country of course, in the end who fucking am i to change your opinion?:P anyway italians are among the most smartest people in the world, and that's its not my opinion or your, this is a fact.
+Pauls www.targetmap.com/ThumbnailsReports/17686_THUMB_IPAD.jpg
www.ebritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/488575_mapa-inteligencije-foto-jakubmarian.com_lb.jpg
Abito a brescia e qui è pieno di rifiuti tossici seppelliti.
my nonna used to say anything south of Rome wasn't Italy anymore
your nonna probably never went to school.
the same thing say the northener about romans.your nonna classic roman arrogant and probably it's because people like her today italy is fucked up
how ridiculous are Italian-Americans mixing italian words with english ones...
+agnieska kasniak No, that is not the reason. Southerners have problems northerners don't have. THERE IS NO EQUALITY, EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT. southerners are DIFFERENT and southern Italy is very different. Is that hard for your little brain to understand? That things are not the same everywhere? Southern Italy is a separate country culturally and in all appearance and substance.
When she said just" last year, July 2007" I was like, hold up that was 15 years ago ..then I checked the upload date 😂
Damn thank you for putting this up. No one even knows about it. Im sick of smelling garbage.
Neaples is not the whole Italy. (thanks God)
+Moreno C but the whole of italy is frickin third world
Not really not. :)
so it is indeed? double negativ = positiv? or just italian who cannot speak english?
+gruenerkoala No, it isn't. Double negative, still negative in some cases, while a double negative in Italian is always negative.
+gruenerkoala In Südtirol Sie haben nicht italienische Mentalität.
How much did it cost Vice to have Luigi host, i hear Nintendo keeps him on a tight leash.
Going to Naples tomorrow yayyyy :) asked some Italians from the north and apparently when they went there they had never seen a city run by the mafia to the same extent...
The music sounds like some sort of Dystopian nightmare.
Loved the story but what is this horrible tune ffs Vice it's disgusting.
The human virus, once again destroying everything beautiful that god gave us on this earth...
It’s truly a gut punch to see areas once so beautiful being destroyed by corruption & crime. For organized crime to subject the citizens in their “territory” to this level of filth & illness is inexcusable. I hope Napoli can one day be restored to its past, natural beauty. Such a shame😢
I'm sad that people didn't know this already.
that freakin annoying song playing throughout the whole piece was freakin annoying
Being from a third world country, i am fucking enjoying this video. At least there is someone like us in Europe whom we can relate something to. 😂😂
That is absolutely shameful.
yeah man ive watch a few of the full lebth ones. whitch in your opinion is tge best
If the US would put in place sanctions saying, hey, we are not going to import any food products from Italy any longer, it's all tainted, I BET they would clean up their act!!! As for ME? I PERSONALLY will no longer purchase ANY food items from Italy. I urge everyone else to join me in this ban. Let's speak with OUR dollars!
If you are worried about toxic food, you should really stop buying US made too. As the US also excels at poisoning their own ground.
Ben Ghazi I'm not worried about eating toxic food... I'm worried about Italy being covered in trash bales.
May I ask why then? Because it looks and smells bad?... The toxicity of the ground and water should be a little more important
Ben Ghazi Did you watch this video? I mean their food supplies are being compromised and their livestock are being killed because they don't think they are healthy enough to be able to be eaten they are so toxic. It is more than esthetics, although that does play a part, it just seems like things are going very very badly and are being handled very poorly. Unfortunately there IS NO easy answer. Trash is a world wide issue. What do we do with it? Burying it doesn't make it go away. We can't just burn it, or throw it into the sea. We can't just cast it off into space. What DO WE DO??? It is a question that thousands of people are spending their entire lives trying to answer. I'm not saying I have the answer, but there MUST be a better way than this. Another thing that concerns me about THIS particular video is that Italy is a very historic place. Every square inch of that place should be considered a world heritage site and should be protected. More so than say the middle of Kentucky. While, I'm sure Kentucky has it's many beauties, it is not as historically important as Italy.
Yes I did watch it, and every problem you bring up is linked to toxicity of the ground and water. And that wasn't a priority for you when I asked the first time, but it seems to be!
The solution is easy, but a tough one. You end capitalism as we know it and implement a sustainable economic system.
We can't sustain the present rape of moder earth. Just now we are using resources at a pace of 2,5 earths. So we need to cut our use by 70%. And that will not happen with capitalism.
And I guess you are American, as protecting the whole of Italy for historic reasons seems very very very over the top for a European like me. 5% is well enough to cover every ancient structure. But I know you mean well ;)
Thank you for validating my warning.
Yes, you are correct, San Marzano is typical from there. But ys, Campania is a tricky region for these things. But luckly most of the agriculture is not done there.
Crazy. Looks like the sort of total trashing I saw in Brazil in the early 90s...
9 years ago it was a crisis of trash ( a lot of complicated things ) but now is the most clean city in Italy
When the stench hit your eyes.....like a big pizza pie....that's amore !!!!
0:44 passenger's side profile looks like Freddie Mercury haha.
Stereotypical Italian gesticulation @ 8:52 lol
My grandfather was a poor man all his life and died such. He was and would continue to be embarrassed of how his own land is treated. Like-trash!!!!!! Disappointed. Corruption everywhere!
this quite possibly has the coolest vice reporter ever, that moustache...wow
Lol, that sheep lady keeps interrupting everytime her husband tries to say anything XD
Good thing for all the Italian language parts, at least I can know what someone is saying when I read the subtitles. The English parts are so quiet that I miss most of it with earphones turned all the way up.
Someone needs to do something and not be too afraid of the mafia to do so.
Is this a live action version of Golden Wind?
Its 4:46am, going to sleep.. OH WAIT, ITS A VICE VIDEO, I HAVE TO WATCH THIS!
woa micky- your the comeback king! you should have your own chat show...
Thank you!! I love their documentaries but, it's such a pain just trying to find them. They would have so many more people viewing them if they'd only make it a bit easier.
really crazy stuff.. junk and trash is really important we all need to take a closer look or powerful people will do it for us. but change must come to how we deal with what we call trash.
0:50 guy from vice looks either like Freddy MErcury or Borat hahahaha check it out !!!!!
Terrorism is a word moulded to suit the politician - they have a meeting and decide who the terrorist will be. We as the people need to stop that and look at the real things like water, safety and garbage disposal in a responsible manner.