For a while it flourished. Stalls sold the usual household goods, plus black market cigarettes, CDs and alcohol. Croats, Serbs and Bosnians came by their thousand. Today you can still buy all of these things but the real business is done behind closed doors. Organised crime has taken over the market.
Cars stolen to order, drugs, medicines and guns are all on the shopping list.
But the most serious trade is in people. For Arizona has simply become the biggest slave market in Europe. Its here that the former warlords turned crime bosses of the fledgling Bosnian state buy and sell women. Most of these women left their homes in Eastern Europe in the belief they would become waitresses or nannies in Italy or France. But if they have not already been forced into prostitution by the time they reach Arizona, they soon will be.