Roadmap to hell
Subtitle: sex, drugs and guns on the Mafia coast
By: Barbie Latza Nadeau
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781786072559
Subjects: Organized crime; Drug traffic; Illegal arms transfers; Human trafficking; Sex workers; Slavery; Crimes against; Nigerians; Mafia; Refugees
Other titles: Sex, drugs and guns on the Mafia coast; Road map to hell
Description: From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep. Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast, each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld, forced to become sex slaves, drug mules or weapon smugglers. In this powerful exposé, investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail, meets the Nigerian hair braiders trafficked and trapped by black magic, the brave nuns who try to save them and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Setting the compass; title: Rescued, then captured; title: Nuns in the land of fire; title: Madams and the black magic juju curse; title: Italy's DNA : God, Girls and the Mafia; title: Massacres and alliances; title: Kalashnikovs and bodies under the mattresses; title: The way forward.