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please ended and officer is backing down. and the european central bank presses governments to do more to save the continent's economies saying it's time for politicians to take the lead but banks president was speaking ahead of major meeting with world finance ministers who are in paris to find a solution to the crisis. coming your way next hour a special report on the colombian drug lord pablo escobar who became even more famous in death. the crew kicks its heels in a hotel for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the requests to me top. caution and distrust runs deep in the ask about clan. but on the fourth day there's a phone call album arena finally agrees to get together at her house.
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it's now learned that album arena had been asked about his coconspirator during the time he had been hunted or as she puts it persecuted they shared many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest admiration for her brother. almost nobody knows that i have kept all these souvenirs. these all belong to pablo at one time i picked them up from his various hiding places. i had a brother. who was two years old a. video of him from this time is rare but roberto escobar was a key member of the medina. he would also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice this speciality was accounting in his memoirs roberto escobar claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking
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a leave album marina had claimed her brother can be reached through a contact in the united states. and our would like to speak with. outer interviewer bone roberto to talk about public we would need to speak with i mean you'd also need to pay some money i don't know how much the. sistine chapel. eventually a deal is reached with a person we actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide his fine number . and yellow sea with the roberto a little if. he's going to. french journalist how do you. find yourself can we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah not problem well can you tell me where we can actually meet them or go to the last
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promise of a station i'll have someone meet you that evening that thank you very much don roberto. the meeting is due to take place in a residential district in central medina the only condition is no cameras. we nonetheless decided to film the meeting anyway. and it's not a. done roberto has no wish to dwell on the days when he was part of a cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most. know what is on the. beginning in one hundred eighty three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were
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inseparable and we did everything together including during the time when he was in hiding but. the remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful he does agree to tell us though that while the public was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. from his presence all roberto used a phone that he had missed t.v. set to communicate with his brother. and made a phone in my t.v. set i'd rate the top and turned it into a telephone. visitors would only see the t.v. . loudly to talk with my brother any time. i change my voice and ask him. oh brother how you doing what are you up to everything all right then. june one thousand nine hundred three mach one year since i had escaped from the crowd to draw. a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city
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under the very noses of the police. the government decides to tighten the screws. so you see the shia it triples the reward and ask about dead or alive is now worth five million dollars. in the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance escobar is one of the first to own a cell phone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position and. they're going to go on one day an american technician who was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the exact kind in place. they own they. can do. that it's in mountainous difficult
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terrain. we organized a helicopter operation in the up and i secrecy. just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio saying. they know where you also go they're on their way. by the time we arrived. it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of a cartel informed the instant the police are about to swoop. the colonel quickly ferrets i'm out here to. inform i was a young police auxilary it was known as a skilled wood carver. little figures of police move you know you have a cop has he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and. the informant was in escobar is paid using the money to rent an apartment in this
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building just behind the barracks and then he. soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home. using a radio code. left on a school and talk code and say things like tell some. as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you. so when we were heading up towards the target book and sometimes see people's about getting past going the other way. that the traitor is eliminated and the manhunt can resume unimpeded. that the no i took out target as a guy called el chapo at one into our information he's hiding in this area. or was
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the terrorists' hands on terrorists guy who plays ball the ball. kind of person i want to start going to a couple of minutes here on this photo album with our various operations and suspects. and i think this is the guy we want to catch tonight. as a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key men one by one man your custom no alias and chapal is tonight's target. the operation against is a success and many others follow the senior members of the cartel are eliminated while not off to the other public is severely weakened so towards the end this cold
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war was running without strong. fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted also known and maybe as the pig. as were criminals who had once been a limited cartel that left for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight as. their bosses a to form accomplices of escobar who'd had enough of his paranoia and cruelty. like the police the papers knew all the secrets some habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting syrian starts as the paper has gone down anyone that's close to the godfather. so
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this changed the dynamics of this esquire now started worrying about his own family. the pap is use the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the family's. case in point as the apartment owned by his mother is blown up at the time ask about his wife and children had been inside nobody is hurt but the attack is on. one day they set off a bomb and it ruined a painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as wife is devastated and she calls look she says they've destroyed the dalai what are we going to do about it. gradually escobar begins to fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason of his downfall. as long as a son and daughter are in colombia he cannot relax.
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he decides to summon to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november maria victoria juan pablo and little manuel aboard a flight to frankfurt on the police escort and filmed by the t.v. crews. escobar breathes a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet but countdown to his iron hand has already begun sure pull such a slow sea hold his wife and kids if leave for a safe country to. their own home but there's no country that once the. plane goes backwards and forwards and eventually he returns to colombia no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german government sunday escobar family back home on the twenty nine fiasco back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into
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the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us a little they are asserting that once they'd been expelled from germany and what back in colombia they'd begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land the escobar family is whisked away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at the same time the peppers step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades over a game no one is injured. in his leg as hysterical with worry forgets even the most basic security. problem we're talking every day at six o'clock when they're on the same frequency and that's how we started intercepting his communications. with
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a special investigation unit it's the turning point in the battle every man is mobilized and every means deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles they cruise the streets of midian in an effort to locate the godfather a soon as he opens his mouth. is a gamble. as we were listening in twenty four hours a day by that time in the such sorry units were in full alert ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the face of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by escobar from different locations in the city center plainly me and he was always on the move around the calling from a car that was constantly traveling. the police finally figure out when i've asked about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous caps that
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would drive around nonstop while he made brief cool's from his cell phone. after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. most but then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from a fixed line so we know he's phoning from a house. the first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. the one where these are the things that he tells me that's it i am at the house i'm right in front of it i think i can see him inside it. is near the window with a telephone in his hand. it's
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a confirmed sighting and the unitard francis led by major. us has entered our most of which we were cautious let me go up to the house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take in that the article money cus your. school talent and then i had public talking on the phone and said he was up on the second floor. so we was heartless i had my rifle on the muslim front seat we were moving him slowly. absolute silence this boss your.
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i see him. just tell us and he's right in front of me bill you're not there but i will have a clear shot we will not deploy i spat at you so i quit for that and then he turns around as he sees me and he says what's happening for you and he drops the first pulls out his revolver an open spot on. the other part of it i run upstairs clutching my pistol and i shoot him and say to mr shoulder and then i says the debate what they don't enlist. any policeman behind me takes his rifle and there's some files a wonderful scene in the play with some here right in the temple the bullet goes in here and exits the. b.s.a. lands and he suddenly throws himself through the window. just album. i jumped out too which was difficult because back then the windows were much higher. so i moved forward that was take the gun away from him. and then i take the radio and
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call my bosses and shout you'll be be i don't live columbia i want the public school ablow is dead. within thirty minutes all one thousand men of the special unit have arrived on the scene the whole city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of public death some up lord others are in tears. his face hidden the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on recognised everybody's very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders much less how the colombian national police must for. one thirty pm on the second of
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december one thousand nine hundred three marks the end of the largest manhunt in history. was. buried the next morning just outside maybe ten thousand people show up for the funeral home many escobar had been idled. off to one corner of the female members of the family already most crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time.
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sixteen years off of the death of the most wanted man on the planet one mystery remains unresolved what happened to the wedding godfathers fost for sure where did he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. a you'll see i think his family has most of the money because a lot of money was ever found the columbia that if he really had all those millions and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just wealth offaly couples he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today tina. we want to just check general mazas comments. one is ari's the capital of argentina.
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after his death as widow maria victoria and her two children subtle here and some comfort they changed identities and blended into the background maria victoria changed her name to maria is about juan pablo is better known today as sebastian morrow came. it took us more than a week to track them down we ask of off family now dabbles in real estate and maria victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a song in the heart of palermo a trendy part of the city. where outside and decide to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning guys. it was a best american please he's not in you know when he might be back is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going to board. ok well thanks very much.
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forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the family in argentina we spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the family since they first arrived. here. if you're going to beijing. when i first came here they started hanging out with the locals in particular an accountant at the beginning maria victoria and he were just friends you know you but then they became lovers for monies they bought an apartment and it became a bad law office. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love is money laundering operations. in. the accounts and begins to travel back and forth to colombia carrying trunks full of banknotes and. your luggage has a fold possibly and contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five in one thousand nine and with barely over four yes it's been proved they
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smuggled in at least two million dollars so there are some estimates that it could have been more than ten million. but maria victoria's love is certain betrayed the accountant is really only interested in the money he becomes greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one thousand nine hundred nine there's a dramatic development as the entire escobar family has arrested maria victoria her son juan pablo as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since then the accountant has mysteriously disappeared and maria victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head towards escobar as office building. the days tick by without news.
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by day four we're in now caught acting on a tip from one pablo who's just arrived back in what is iris and would like to meet up. there's no mistaking who his father was they look so similar in profile the godfather saw his wipe the past from his slate. these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of the godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant.
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and i call you sebastian owen pablo. one problem to me is ancient history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money where you were able to use any of it. the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. my father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into that war. weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of money. and be on the cost of the weapons and explosives and a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. yeah the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important
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people for example he was inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman scolding him were keeping god after their boss had finished they went in to be paid and that's the way it always was one day policeman another day politicians one day i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say is a check thanks very much. argentine justice eventually threw up the case but as the only son of problem escobar there are many who have doubts of where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. war what i can say is if it's true then we must be the west money loaned recent history since if you try and unload the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what
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did happen to ask about these billions of a number of accounts or buried underground somewhere. or are they just a legend. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria the medina godfathers widow. she refused to talk with us i merely images we have of these few seconds in the streets and what has areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died of not maybe in a rooftop in one thousand nine hundred three a blow escobar the greatest drug trafficker of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.
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the u.n. says the death toll in syria is uprising excuse me the death toll in syria uprising stands at more than three thousand as opposition activists reported mounting support from military defectors and despite the government dismissing the claims anti regime demonstrators are calling for nationwide protests undeterred by fresh reports security forces opened fire on protesters killing twelve from damascus maintains armed gangs and not revolutionaries are responsible for the violence. please turn up the heat on that defiance by corporate protestors in new york with scuffles and at least a fourteen arrests marchers are celebrating after a tense standoff with police over whether to clear a park housing the rallies ended in officers of backing down the demonstrators say they will continue to fight on and promise to go global despite mounting official pressure to give it.

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