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[00:00:00] Zoe's Ark to watch on
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[00:00:07] Welcome to this new news report, here are the headlines of your
[00:00:10] night edition. The President of Colombia officially
[00:00:14] invested Abellardo de la Espria. She took an oath more than a
[00:00:17] month after her narrow victory against the left-wing candidate. This
[00:00:21] new figure of the far right promises to
[00:00:25] this Chadian subsidiary of build giant prisons, to bomb drug traffickers and to reduce state
[00:00:28] services.
[00:00:30] has suffered in recent months from attacks by The conflict continues between
[00:00:33] Spain and Italy after the crisis in Ceuta and Rome's reaction, which implemented
[00:00:37] passenger controls on arrivals from the Iberian Peninsula.
[00:00:41] Madrid, in turn, imposes controls on travelers coming
[00:00:43] from Italy.
[00:00:46] And then Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign a
[00:00:50] mutual defense pact. Any armed attack
[00:00:53] against one of these countries will be considered an attack against all,
[00:00:56] a warning for Iran and the United States. The look of... attention
[00:01:00] in the region has accelerated the project.
[00:01:03] United States has with the countries in
[00:01:14] The far right has therefore taken the reins of power in Colombia. The new president
[00:01:18] took office in Cali, in the heart of a city marked by attacks
[00:01:22] claimed by guerrillas, a symbol for someone who openly threatens the
[00:01:27] a NATO member, also seeks to peace process initiated by his predecessor, Loik Chalavon.
[00:01:32] From the King of Spain, Felipe VI, to the Argentine President, Javier
[00:01:35] Milei, and even the head of FIFA, Gianni
[00:01:38] Secretary of State for Human and dedication. The association Infantino, they were all gathered this Friday in Cali for
[00:01:41] the inauguration of the new Colombian
[00:01:43] president.
[00:01:50] Normally, the inauguration of a Colombian president takes place in the capital Bogota,
[00:01:54] but not with Abellardo de la Espria. The 48-year-old millionaire
[00:01:57] lawyer, a political novice, chose Cali, the third largest city in the country, where
[00:02:01] attacks recently took place. The city is guarded by
[00:02:04] more than 11,000 soldiers, a symbol, because the new far-right president
[00:02:08] promises a strong approach to fight against armed groups and drug
[00:02:11] trafficking. A program completely different from that of his left-wing
[00:02:15] predecessor Gustavo Petro, absent from the ceremony, who had tried to negotiate
[00:02:19] the disarmament of the guerrillas. There
[00:02:22] orphans. The Zoe's Ark will be no false peace process, the only possible peace is that imposed by
[00:02:25] arms. Any bandit who does not submit will be eliminated. I warned
[00:02:29] you. For this, Colombia can count on the support of the
[00:02:33] United States and Israel, whose
[00:02:36] it was representatives were present at the inauguration ceremony. The rise to power of Abellardo de la Espriea
[00:02:40] shifts Latin America even further to the right, engaged in an
[00:02:45] the dissolution of the anti-drug war led by Donald Trump. The American president promised excellent relations between
[00:02:48] Bogota and Washington after the deep tensions under the Petro
[00:02:52] government. Spain is implementing controls on
[00:02:56] travelers arriving from Italy. These measures concern flights and boats.
[00:03:00] victims, victims of Zoe's Madrid's decision was taken in response to similar measures
[00:03:03] decreed by Italy after the influx of migrants into the enclave of
[00:03:06] Ceuta. Louis
[00:03:07] Chalavon.
[00:03:11] In front of this police station, there are dozens of unaccompanied minors waiting
[00:03:15] their turn to be identified and placed in a
[00:03:18] reception center. These young adolescents have been living on the streets for several
[00:03:22] days, in more than
[00:03:24] precarious conditions.
[00:03:26] They ate, washed themselves as best they could, and asked people for help.
[00:03:30] Some gave them €1, others bread. That's how they get
[00:03:34] by day by day. It is
[00:03:36] estimated that more than 1,100 unaccompanied minors are
[00:03:39] in Ceuta. Local authorities are doing everything possible to take care of
[00:03:43] these minors and manage the approximately 2,000 migrants who are still in
[00:03:46] the enclave, according to figures from the Spanish Ministry of Interior.
[00:03:50] On the diplomatic front, the war of words continues between Spain and
[00:03:53] Italy. Madrid threatens to apply retaliatory measures against
[00:03:58] what the association's members claimed Rome if Italy does not reverse its decision to suspend the free movement with Spain before
[00:04:01] Sunday. On July 31st, Italian Prime Minister
[00:04:05] Giorgia Meloni announced the strengthening of controls at land
[00:04:09] we simply want to spark that little spark that will provoke a debate and hopefully open a big international debate on the subject, but in 2008 on the set of borders. We call on the Italian government to
[00:04:12] reconsider its position, to end controls and to treat
[00:04:15] Spaniards like other European citizens. If it does not
[00:04:19] do so by the end of Sunday, August 9th, Spain
[00:04:24] reduce state will be forced to adopt proportional measures to protect the interests and dignity of its
[00:04:28] citizens. Italy says it does not want to give in to any
[00:04:32] ultimatum. In a statement, the Italian government
[00:04:35] indicates that it is maintaining the suspension of the Schengen agreement with Spain
[00:04:39] at least until August
[00:04:40] He doesn't seem to realize that he 15th. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey
[00:04:44] have signed a defense pact. The agreement aims to strengthen
[00:04:47] military deterrence in a context of renewed
[00:04:50] regional tension (explanations from Alice
[00:04:53] Broga).
[00:04:56] To seal their alliance, they chose Mecca, side by
[00:04:59] side. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and
[00:05:02] Pakistan attend Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque. Three Sunni
[00:05:05] regional powers that share
[00:05:09] maritime or land borders with Iran.
[00:05:13] Perceived as a threat, so Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
[00:05:16] Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani
[00:05:20] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a defense
[00:05:24] pact on Friday. The agreement aims to strengthen collective
[00:05:27] deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that any
[00:05:30] armed attack against one of the three states will be considered an attack
[00:05:34] against all. A mechanism whose solidity could
[00:05:37] be tested very quickly by Saudi Arabia. The kingdom
[00:05:43] Iran and its proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen, who have recently
[00:05:46] multiplied strikes against Saudi targets. Riyadh,
[00:05:50] Ankara and Islamabad, who have been involved in recent weeks to try to
[00:05:54] resolve the conflict between the United States and Iran, are also
[00:05:57] seeking to diversify their defense in the face of an American
[00:06:01] partner deemed increasingly unreliable.
[00:06:05] The other factor is distrust of American security guarantees.
[00:06:08] It must be clear, it is not an alternative to the
[00:06:12] security relationship that the
[00:06:16] the region, but a complement. Indeed, while the
[00:06:19] United States remains indispensable for many regional
[00:06:22] actors. They are also perceived as unreliable and
[00:06:25] unpredictable.
[00:06:28] If Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are already linked by a defense
[00:06:31] agreement, the inclusion of Turkey in this new pact was
[00:06:35] precipitated by the war in the Middle East. Turkey,
[00:06:39] gain influence and attract investors.
[00:06:45] Will Volodymyr Zelensky's latest trip be considered
[00:06:49] an affront to Russia? The Ukrainian president is in Serbia
[00:06:53] for the first time since coming to power. It must be said that Belgrade has
[00:06:56] never aligned itself with European sanctions against Moscow. For
[00:07:00] Serbia, this visit is also a way to send a signal to the Baltic
[00:07:03] countries, which are freezing their EU accession process due to its
[00:07:07] relations with Russia, but also to reassure European states that
[00:07:11] are concerned about the decline of democracy in the country.
[00:07:13] pays.
[00:07:17] Taiwan has been conducting military exercises since Wednesday to simulate a
[00:07:20] Chinese invasion. These exercises, which last 10 days, were held at
[00:07:24] Bal Reel on a beach on Kinmen Island, just
[00:07:27] 6 km from the shores of China. Our correspondent
[00:07:31] Suzanne Duroi de Sudirot went there.
[00:07:33] place.
[00:07:42] What you just heard is the Taiwanese army training
[00:07:45] for a scenario of invasion by the Chinese
[00:07:48] army on this small island of Kinmen. This Taiwanese
[00:07:52] territory is located only 6 km from China and here you
[00:07:56] can see on the shores Taiwanese tanks
[00:07:59] practicing live fire. They will aim at
[00:08:03] targets that are there in the background in the sea as you
[00:08:06] can see. So, Kinmen, like the rest of the country, is training, these are national
[00:08:10] military exercises. And
[00:08:13] Kinmen in particular is exposed
[00:08:17] to China due to its proximity. It had already been the subject
[00:08:21] of an attempted landing in 1949. So
[00:08:25] today, could China invade this small
[00:08:28] territory again? The strategic and military stake is
[00:08:31] colossal and ultimately, perhaps strategists
[00:08:34] believe that directly invading the main island of
[00:08:37] Taiwan is perhaps much more pertinent for
[00:08:40] China. Forecasters announce a new heatwave in
[00:08:44] France. 12 departments are on orange alert this
[00:08:47] Saturday. Heatwaves are occurring at an unprecedented
[00:08:51] rate in France and also in parts of Europe. Repeated
[00:08:55] heatwaves, persistent drought,
[00:08:57] Austria, Croatia and Slovakia, temperatures have exceeded 41 degrees.
[00:09:01] 41°anaji.
[00:09:06] With the drought and repeated heatwaves, the waters
[00:09:09] of the Danube are experiencing...
[00:09:42] during the day, it's very restrictive.
[00:09:46] Slovakia and neighboring Austria recorded absolute temperature
[00:09:50] records this week, more than 41 degrees in some
[00:09:53] places. After a particularly hot and
[00:09:56] dry July, residents and shopkeepers fear a scorching
[00:09:59] August, as the drought is
[00:10:03] widespread and the concrete shopping streets are
[00:10:06] shunned by tourists and the few passers-by.
[00:10:09] passants.
[00:10:12] I have a doctor's appointment, that's why we are outside, otherwise with this
[00:10:16] weather I would have stayed at home with my
[00:10:18] child.
[00:10:21] In Croatia, they chose to shelter in nature.
[00:10:56] A word on cycling now, this Friday, the 7th stage of the Tour de France
[00:10:59] had an appointment with Mont Ventoux. The Polish
[00:11:02] Kasia Niewiadoma took the yellow jersey after
[00:11:05] winning solo with a 15-second lead over the
[00:11:09] Dutch Demi Vollering and a 39-second lead over the Swiss
[00:11:13] Marlen Reusser. The French Cédrine Kerbaol finished
[00:11:16] 7th at 4 minutes, and is 6th in the general
[00:11:20] classification. Disappointment, however, for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
[00:11:24] at more than... 10 minutes, 18th at the finish
[00:11:27] and 14th in the general
[00:11:28] classification.
[00:11:32] That's the end of this news report, we'll be back in just over 15 minutes, the information
[00:11:36] continues on France 24 and France Info, see you soon.
[00:11:59] Its slogan was courage
[00:12:03] Zoe's Ark was created to help orphaned
[00:12:06] children. Yet, it will be remembered mainly for a
[00:12:10] resounding scandal, an attempted abduction
[00:12:13] of African children. In 2007, the association launched a
[00:12:17] campaign to evacuate 10,000 orphans from the war-torn Darfur
[00:12:20] region in Sudan, to place them in foster families in
[00:12:24] France. But on October 25, six members including the
[00:12:27] founder of Zoe's Ark, Eric Breteau, and his partner, Emilie
[00:12:31] Lelouch, were arrested in Chad as they were about to put
[00:12:34] 103 children on a plane, presented as originating from
[00:12:38] Darfur. Except that most of these
[00:12:41] minors were actually Chadian and many of them were not
[00:12:47] team was accused of attempted abduction and
[00:12:50] sentenced by the Chadian justice system to 8 years of hard
[00:12:53] labor. Taken to France, they were finally pardoned
[00:12:57] by the Chadian president and still proclaim their
[00:13:00] innocence. But the French justice system, in turn, opened
[00:13:03] a trial and in 2013 sentenced Breteau and Lelouch to 2 years in
[00:13:07] prison with a suspended sentence and ordered
[00:13:10] association. Nearly 20 years after the events, what has become of the
[00:13:13] main protagonists of this case? The victims and their
[00:13:17] families are still waiting for the compensation ordered by
[00:13:20] the court. Bill's report on Zoe's Ark is a report by Arol.
[00:13:39] In total, we were 103
[00:13:43] Ark. We come from different
[00:13:46] backgrounds. There are victims who come from
[00:13:49] Biltin.
[00:13:52] biltin,
[00:13:55] Almost all the children concerned are today in towns in eastern
[00:13:58] Chad, less than 10% live in the
[00:14:01] capital.
[00:14:06] Adam is Chadian, he is 23 years old, he was 5 when
[00:14:09] the Zoe's Ark association wanted to send him to France with
[00:14:12] 102 other children. He was supposed to be welcomed by French
[00:14:16] families who thought they were taking care of orphans from the Darfur
[00:14:20] region of Sudan. This is
[00:14:23] at the time.
[00:14:27] "We even created a WhatsApp group, I'm the representative in the
[00:14:30] capital, so I have to go back and forth to the east of the country like
[00:14:34] today, it's exhausting but I'm holding
[00:14:36] on.
[00:14:39] Good evening, how
[00:14:40] are you?
[00:14:46] Here, Adam is eagerly awaited, because he
[00:14:50] is the one who has been fighting for years for the victims of Zoe's Ark to be
[00:14:54] compensated as the Chadian justice system decided in
[00:14:57] 2007.
[00:15:04] That day, he gathered several parents to explain to them where his efforts
[00:15:08] stood.
[00:15:16] The court had clearly specified that for the child to be entitled to damages,
[00:15:20] they had to be 18 years old. Time has
[00:15:23] passed, we are now of age, we are adults
[00:15:26] today. The events took place 18 years ago,
[00:15:30] but this father of a child who almost got taken to France, remembers
[00:15:34] it as if it were yesterday. It was
[00:15:37] only after Eid and the end of Ramadan that we were told that our
[00:15:40] children had been stolen and taken
[00:15:42] to Abeche. We immediately came here to
[00:15:45] Adré and found their luggage on the ground.
[00:15:49] For 3-4 days we searched for our children everywhere, I don't even know if
[00:15:53] we ate, we didn't stop for a minute. We
[00:15:57] finally went to Abeche and that's where we found our children in
[00:16:00] Madame's house, it's an
[00:16:02] orphanage.
[00:16:06] This other father, he...
[00:16:37] would be like this for 5 years, we were
[00:16:40] happy.
[00:16:44] All the parents we met affirm that at the time, the association promised
[00:16:48] them that the children would benefit from religious education, a
[00:16:51] strong argument in this conservative Muslim region of Chad.
[00:17:08] At the time, Zoe's Ark association gathered Adam and other
[00:17:12] children in this building in the city center of Adré, transformed into
[00:17:15] a boarding school in 2007. Today, Adam does not remember
[00:17:19] having passed through here. It is Ibrahim Oubali, the father of another
[00:17:22] child victim met on his arrival, who takes
[00:17:25] him there.
[00:17:29] You see this wall, it didn't exist before.
[00:17:33] This one too, they added it. They've changed almost everything
[00:17:35] here. This is the school where all the children
[00:17:39] taken in by Zoe's Ark were gathered. They were all
[00:17:42] here and from there they were taken to Adré airport
[00:17:46] to then be taken to Abéché.
[00:17:49] That's what we said to ourselves, it's in the city center, in plain sight of
[00:17:53] everyone, we never suspected for a second that this story
[00:17:56] would end like this. The authorities knew about this
[00:17:59] place, it wasn't a hidden project. We thought it
[00:18:03] was a real school. People who didn't know our story
[00:18:06] talked a lot. They said: "You sold your
[00:18:09] children," but who sells their child? It's because
[00:18:13] we were promised an education that we
[00:18:15] accepted.
[00:18:24] At the trial of the members of Zoe's Ark in Chad, one of the Chadian
[00:18:27] intermediaries of the association, responsible for spotting and then bringing the
[00:18:31] children to its premises, confessed to having passed off some sixty
[00:18:34] Chadian minors as Sudanese orphans from Darfur.
[00:18:38] But what is the explanation for the other children? According to the list drawn up
[00:18:42] by the Chadian state, which we were able to consult, only 5
[00:18:46] of the 103 children concerned by the case were indeed
[00:18:49] of Sudanese origin. The founder of Zoe's Ark, Eric
[00:18:53] Breteau, assures that he did not know that the vast
[00:18:56] majority of the children were Chadian and that he did not know
[00:18:59] either that many were not orphans. He also claims
[00:19:02] not to have wanted to have these children adopted, that he simply
[00:19:05] wanted to evacuate them to France to force Paris to address the Darfur
[00:19:09] problem. This is what he explains in this video
[00:19:13] produced by his association a few months before his
[00:19:16] arrest. The fact of evacuating children from Darfur to
[00:19:20] our country is to import part of the problem into our country, so it
[00:19:23] obliges the political world to react to that and it
[00:19:27] obliges the political world to react to French public
[00:19:30] opinion. That's what we're trying to do, we have no
[00:19:33] claim to be changing the world, we're not idealists.
[00:19:46] the show "On n'est pas couché" on France 2, Eric Breteau
[00:19:50] admits that he did not tell the whole truth. No, but the people who entrusted you with the
[00:19:53] children, they knew they were going to France, yes or no? Yes or no? No, it's
[00:19:57] clandestine.
[00:20:03] solicited, did not wish to answer our questions, but thanks
[00:20:07] to Adam, we meet Hamza, one of the child
[00:20:10] victims of Zoe's Ark who says he has exchanged messages with the
[00:20:14] association's founder.
[00:20:17] discussed with the main person involved in this
[00:20:20] case.
[00:20:24] I spoke with one of the kidnappers. His name is
[00:20:27] Eric Bret. He seems to think that their operation was
[00:20:31] normal and that they came to help us. For them, they didn't kidnap
[00:20:35] anyone.
[00:20:39] Hamza agrees to let us read the messages Eric
[00:20:42] Breteau sent him: "If the person who brought you to us lied by saying
[00:20:46] that you were an orphan, I can unfortunately do nothing about it. You probably
[00:20:49] have a birth certificate and identity documents to explain where you were born
[00:20:53] and who your parents are. At the time, I didn't have them." For
[00:20:57] Hamza, Eric Breteau's line of defense is not
[00:21:00] satisfactory.
[00:21:03] If the person recognizes their mistakes and asks for
[00:21:05] forgiveness, then you know they have
[00:21:08] evolved. But if that same person refuses
[00:21:11] to admit their wrongs and continues to defend their case by
[00:21:15] saying "I didn't commit kidnapping, we are telling the
[00:21:18] truth," then you cannot
[00:21:20] forgive.
[00:21:25] Before, when I heard about this story, it made me furious.
[00:21:28] moi.
[00:21:37] people who don't want our good. Today, now that I'm
[00:21:40] grown up, I know that not all white people are
[00:21:43] the same.
[00:22:00] So what role did France play in this affair, while several
[00:22:04] of its nationals were organizing this evacuation operation
[00:22:08] from Chadian soil? The association even benefited
[00:22:10] from French military flights to move around inside the country. Another
[00:22:14] less known element, Eric Broteau and his partner Emilie
[00:22:18] Lelouch
[00:22:20] were summoned several months before their arrest in Chad by
[00:22:24] the office of Rama Yade, their
[00:22:28] Rights. A man took over the case, Eric
[00:22:32] Walter, former advisor to Rama Yade. We were able to
[00:22:35] meet him.
[00:22:40] Their project was totally illegal from A to Z, of course. Eric Walter
[00:22:44] explains to us that the French intelligence services had detected an
[00:22:48] irregular humanitarian activity. Yesterday they reported
[00:22:51] the information, hence this summons of Eric Breteau and
[00:22:55] Emilie Lelouch and they both arrive. The meeting is extremely
[00:22:58] tense. I remember a real,
[00:23:02] a genuine, latent aggression, not
[00:23:05] physical, of course, but from them,
[00:23:07] a lot of tension. In all good faith, we tried
[00:23:11] to explain to them what they could do and what they could not
[00:23:14] do. Once again, adoption, they couldn't do that, it was
[00:23:17] simple.
[00:23:21] But they never admitted that
[00:23:26] adoption, and so nothing
[00:23:29] could deter them
[00:23:32] or dissuade them from
[00:23:36] undertaking the action they had begun to undertake. That's what I
[00:23:40] remember.
[00:23:43] The French members of Zoe's Ark were sentenced for attempted child
[00:23:47] abduction by the Chadian justice system to 8 years of hard
[00:23:50] labor, but also to pay more than 6 million euros to the
[00:23:54] victims. They were then transferred to France, then
[00:23:57] pardoned by the Chadian
[00:23:59] president.
[00:24:04] The sixty children with whom Adam is in contact have never received
[00:24:08] compensation. He wants to gather as many testimonies as
[00:24:12] possible to obtain reparations. That day,
[00:24:15] Adam meets Abdallah Arbab in his village. His son,
[00:24:19] Ramadan, is a victim of Zoe's
[00:24:20] Ark.
[00:24:27] It was a child theft, a real kidnapping,
[00:24:31] it's a
[00:24:33] heard many stories, they would have taken us to exploit
[00:24:37] us, maybe make us work in factories.
[00:24:41] We were little, we didn't understand anything.
[00:24:44] For us, at the time, it was an opportunity
[00:24:47] for education. In our village, there was no
[00:24:52] school. It was only for this reason that parents decided to send us to Zoe's
[00:24:56] Ark. We were just herders and not
[00:25:00] educated either.
[00:25:02] Having a chance to go to school was incredible for
[00:25:05] us.
[00:25:10] His father has kept dozens of essential documents for
[00:25:14] Adam's investigation.
[00:25:14] d'adame,
[00:25:18] You see, a claim made in
[00:25:21] 2011, kept by Mr.
[00:25:23] Abdallah. They did not receive a response, so they made a new
[00:25:27] request in 2012. They addressed a
[00:25:31] deputy, but also directly the public
[00:25:35] prosecutor.
[00:25:40] spent 13 months in prison at the time, we waited
[00:25:44] for a response to all these letters. They told us that each child would receive
[00:25:48] 6,000 euros in damages. But we were told at the time that to receive
[00:25:52] the money, the children had to be 18, but for now they have received
[00:25:55] nothing.
[00:26:03] The only trace we find of the damages intended for the
[00:26:06] children is this document which proves that the Chadian state
[00:26:10] paid in 2009 562 million CFA
[00:26:13] francs, or about 85,000 euros into an
[00:26:17] account opened in their name at the Société
[00:26:20] Générale Tchadienne de Banque. We contacted the
[00:26:24] Koris group, which took over
[00:26:27] Société Générale in 2024 to find out if the money was still in
[00:26:31] this account, but the banking institution did not wish to respond to
[00:26:34] our interview
[00:26:35] request.
[00:26:42] Adam, for his part, turned to one of the lawyers who defended the families
[00:26:45] of victims in 2007. Today, he is the sole legal
[00:26:49] representative of the victims and plays the role of intermediary with the Chadian
[00:26:53] government. We participated from start to finish
[00:26:56] in triggering the procedure until the decision was
[00:27:00] reached at the criminal court in N'Djamena. Here, the state is also
[00:27:03] accountable. uh, at the forefront, uh
[00:27:07] will indeed not delay paying this amount and for that
[00:27:11] there is still hope, so we launch a vibrant appeal
[00:27:15] to the high authorities to commit to quickly
[00:27:18] settling this this this matter so that at least
[00:27:22] justice is definitively served to these child
[00:27:26] victims, thank you , courage
[00:27:28] , huh,
[00:27:30] the rest there, okay.
[00:27:33] While we were filming the last minutes of this
[00:27:36] report, the Chadian presidency assured the families' lawyer
[00:27:40] that the compensation process would be relaunched,
[00:27:44] a hope for Adam and for all the other
[00:27:47] child victims who, 18 years after the facts, still feel abandoned by justice.
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[00:30:09] edition. The President of Colombia has officially been
[00:30:13] sworn in. Abelardo de la Espriella took the oath more than a
[00:30:16] month after his narrow victory against the left-wing candidate. This
[00:30:20] new far-right figure promises to build giant prisons, to
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[00:30:40] Madrid in turn imposes controls on travelers
[00:30:42] coming from Italy.
[00:30:45] And then Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey
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