Best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major cut to make this work for the locals a lot of these tests of how took effect. For years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter Emma Alberici went to investigate. If. The cost doesnt morale day is a magnet for the rich and famous need hosts the most beautiful beaches in the year. Its not hard to see what draws people to this place. Former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. But ive come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses that have blotted life on this glorious island for decades. The wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. The saudis plays host to some of the worlds most elaborate war games like this one in 2015. Trident junction was one of natos biggest exercises. Dozens of countries were involved in. The military exclusion zones cover more than a 3rd of sardinians land sea and air. Rome is reported to be nike one and a half 1000000. 00 a day renting out this space to Foreign Forces and weapons manufacturers. Down south the entire lotta the beaches are just a stunning but they mostly inaccessible. The reka family has been fishing in these waters for generations zimbabwes arabs are on their behalf was a lot more about it yes i remember job only a couple of the manga give what the man got. And there was no real bradstock of what they were rather than what happens if you do. Everyone hopped up someone really were going about it. The Italian Ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the city around sardinia off limits. Around their government on a minivan everywhere man and one annoy them really regret their ability for no apparent your name in the military are they watching us. Most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. Theyre the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. And if you know your view that. There was a you know there. Are a purely has made it his lifes mission to bust open this wall of silence. He was once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldnt get access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow purely dida eventually get into the tire lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and we were the no he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. You mention imagining. That they are going to fire the man or. If i dont know what it mean for the afghan official me. Despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. In 2017 sardinia unhealthful far shes confirmed claiming fouls and 200 french made me laugh missiles arrived on the yacht. And over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course in egypt 30000000 was the museum you know. I mean 11 lies here was this. Year than. The guidance systems of these milan missiles each carry 3 grams of radioactive phoria. In heiling florian dust increases the risk of long and pancreatic cancer. In the school bus and you saw that he thought it was the most was that the girl should not go nice she was all she was but i think that. It was the summer that. The main concern for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isnt about damage to the land or restricted axes. Theyre worried the bomb residue might be killing will. Today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens 59 year old mario drogo. As a young man he worked at the firing range. He died of lung cancer but he wasnt a smoker. Many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. Well share them with him most of them already in their church i dont know about us and i speak to a lot of the station but its more the show their level of the job and. The what i call them or more you dont see it i will get a lot of these its been decided to intervene to do our share not more i wanted. To put julie on joining and his friends blame the italian Defense Force for this suffering. Due to modern almost. Never found that the sort of the full range of the a lot on your mother to love what i. The one that our job and that is. The Italian Military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. Of bondi of pierce and her husband john carroll have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years are going to dilute the but they are itll still be a lot of years of that but. They are just. A vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his National Service attire larger in the late ninetys he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shelters with his bare hands. A few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His parents blame the armed forces when i say fuck without throw in no matter what i meant. About the truth ok. Sort of a general of. Miley. With the book a lot of the food that. This is the rubbish junk carloss built up in his sons liver. There particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. Biomedical engineer anthony a to get it analyzed francescos liver tissue. She found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. Tungsten and titanium. Theres no Metals Industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. Dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from a big explosion icicle at the. Ok i mean theyre calling out those who are looking. For that for them in. The science of nano particles is still new but the World Health Organization says early signs show that fine material may be harmful to Public Health. The w. H. O. Is encouraging further research. Dr getting has consulted to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian Defense Force it was that if you know said the painter that it printed. Them in a corner or. Authority figure out the only real little bit you. Very. Much is so. So that it may. Not. Know. This. Its a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. This is the scene of Tragic Health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. For many here life still slow and traditional. But it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. Zarin flying. To see the children to see morty i think weve got to quit because of food. Or disorder. But much of. The much about this will be cut but i want to believe that if we read. Queerer is the biggest military test site in europe. Its used by nice countries as well as israel. Those living nearby have no not much tragedy. Doc to guess he has become an advocate for some of the people of quiero. Maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. The baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. She was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldnt move or speak i think thats. Part. Of my. Skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. One in 4 of the children born in the same year as maria ground 0 had some kind of deformity. Come into the mother. And spoken into the heart of the cover up. The back of said im allowed to let it out so youre not there dr i. Dont need to feel. You know. John piero scar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. His committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. Send them to war level for the rich at their cause and one trillion the forth. May pully going to support there were further queer look. But come on chad on this from control. Weve made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but weve been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way its a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they told to cite about birth defects they told to explain it away with the shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of inbreeding these are the 1st of the leaders to go. In this is general maltin a former head of the queer a base hes cool francois t. V. Delivery that came a siege actually friday i think you might enjoy it will you that it will grow or Prosecutors Office only theres no evidence to support that climb. The children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eightys when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely disposed dolls and queerer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters deep and 40 meters wide. That might. Not settle your families it goddammit commoner. Latino. Devils. Decades dust from explosion. And tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. Exactly what was in them no one knows. In nearly 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. At the same time over in florence military pilot do any kind of chiro was raising his concerns. Hed say no high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. Stomach around the good of. The its an internet so that its not going to know if were going to be perfect or intervene youre because you better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we dont see. This to remain. On. Me no not. Yet immune to the minute is basically like you. Have look at if you will be jammed. The Italian Military felt the pressure. Depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. Its used to help missiles penetrate. At queerer scientist francesco recombine i was flown in by the ministry of defense to do some soil tests in front of a swarm of local media. Are going to convince you to have the event of the photograph of. The debugger the movie in all of the running for the for the monitor yeah theres a little Francesco Riccobono i didnt find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible press. And so thory im defense declared the firing range clear. To the sunni admin run anonymous but have a better. Market value on all the people even to the lesser of the year so nobody going to. Wonder where the line i took you did you grow it to. Be there. When i was fairly recent with its a disgrace and. Then in 2010 events took a shocking turn. The photos youre about to see are disturbing. A land born with one. Others with deformities the line and severity of which scientists and Public Health experts had never seen before. They dont. Want to know that was their mother or your mother kicked. Then but. Then. You dont know better when there it was the money for them or. Believe. Their georgia mehlis corrosion report for the District Health or farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range. From markedly the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers that get placed where a new body will not be in sort of more walk. The von maur. When even if it. Was your only bombarded them into a little bit about. The quest for the better. But it. Was the only main the. Main. Beyond which are cattle the informatic they live. In more. Immediately a formal Police Investigation was launched the Court Ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments died in the 20 years up to 20000. Bines were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. Nuclear physicist vandross seanie live some of that research. This will. Analyse. But. In the car or. In. Your. View. Those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore and in their binds had all lived close to the firing range. Or nor are the shore dogs in quite that it guard your my jaw at. The opposite end there. In the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who dumped the soil testing to the military. Why hadnt research of francesco rico bono found any ranee and all the much more dangerous story im in the soil as we were. While he was questioned up steves outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. As he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. Hed been interrogated for leaving thore and out of his record and he was angry with the military this age gone with dont go the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if youre honest you say to me make sure to include it because its important to. Francesco rekha bonos university received a 2400000. 00 government grant to carry out its work. He was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in a cover up. Morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. And the facets that will beat the roy and the. Ball. In so many. Every dollar that. 8 former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians. One of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in brit school another is Paolo Ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free will isnt. Really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g. And john pieros gunnies committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant burnell judy the new mess so the cozily. Lecture 30 suppose its on the low then in full really dont they live but gee i didnt check that a minute that a quest will not get the media. For the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. Crucially for ian when in high old or ingested it was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. The scanner report was dismissed by the italian Defense Force. And they refer to. The letter a letter on the. The larkham. Youre president for an element that says that the script the leverage. But after all that work by the commission a new law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. For decades sardinia has held its secrets close. Its been mocked in an uncomfortable embrace with the worlds military. In a country mired in debt defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. After all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope but the truth i finally see the light of day. They come in hope and in search of work to provide a better life for the families theyve left behind. But though their labor is vital to release Food Industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime. Trapped in a system with little hope of escape people in power investigates italy seeks links on aljazeera. Sweat tears and sometimes blood but for them its what their dreams are made of. I just see a wild tells a story of a young moroccan boxes from humble backgrounds for training for the fights of their lives. Under former champion who gives his old friend that success casablanca fikile on how to 0. If you want to help save the world. Sneeze into your own. 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