Ibiza.Narcos.S01e03
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00:00The following program contains drug references, flashing images, strong language and strong images of real-life injury.
00:17Every level of the drug game was there in Spain and Ibiza.
00:21And I can only assume that I got shot because I was a conduit to the cheaper drugs.
00:27He just shot me in the leg.
00:30So the first one went up in my leg here.
00:36Bang! I hit the deck.
00:39And now I'm on the floor.
00:41Fucking mug, go on, go on then.
00:43Bang! Gone through the arm.
00:45I didn't think he'd do it again and he shot me again.
00:47But he went through my willy and shot my right testicle out.
00:51And then he come walking towards me, like you.
00:54He walked towards me, there, and he pointed the gun out.
00:57And I thought, he's going to kill me.
00:59I thought, no, this can't kill me.
01:01And bang!
01:02He shot me and I thought, I'm going to die.
01:05No, no, no, no, no.
01:07And then I heard him running off.
01:13I had to learn the hard way because I didn't want to listen.
01:16So I tell people, listen, no, you don't want to learn the hard way.
01:20It's no good.
01:23Yeah, right through there.
01:35It could be a spoon full of diamonds
01:39Could be a spoon full of gold
01:43Just a little spoon of your precious love
01:47Satisfy myself
02:10In the summer of 92, when I was 18,
02:13I come to Ibiza and it's just freedom.
02:16I just got to experience freedom.
02:27There's girls and bikinis and beaches
02:30and I was able to do whatever I damn so pleased.
02:33Just, just hedonism.
02:41Well, this is Esparadis, Esparadis Torino,
02:45which used to mean, or still means, it's paradise on earth.
02:55But we sat here and I just fell in love.
02:5718 years old, looking around going, where am I?
03:01Kid from a council estate, alcoholic mother, no father, no money.
03:06Debt collectors always knocking on the door.
03:09And then you come here and you're in paradise.
03:12And then we got the opportunity to do parties out here.
03:15Tonight's the opening of Clockwork Orange.
03:18Can we have that one up there?
03:19One of the club's partners is 25-year-old Danny Gould
03:22and he's got a long day ahead of him.
03:24That looks wicked, darling!
03:26Got to put my dodgy outfit on, yeah.
03:28I hate my outfit.
03:34Clockwork in Esparadis is always about the atmosphere.
03:38From quarter to six, all the cushions would come out.
03:41A man would go in the middle
03:42and sweep out all the glass and all the cigarettes.
03:45And then when it was all clean, he'd give the thumbs up.
03:51And then the fountains would go on
03:53and then everyone would go into the middle.
03:57Can you imagine 3,600 people?
04:01It was just a maelstrom of madness and getting on it.
04:05And if I wasn't the person at the end of the night
04:08who looked the most buckled,
04:10then I'd fouled, basically.
04:14And then there's more money we was earning,
04:16the more cocaine you did.
04:18That's the basic truth of it.
04:27I think a lot of it was to do with the ritual as well.
04:30Getting it.
04:32Holding it.
04:33Sharing it.
04:35It's almost like the dance, you know what I mean?
04:37Got a bit of poogle, got it in me pocket.
04:41Do you know what I mean?
04:44It magnified my madness.
04:48If you didn't have a key, you'd punch the window in.
04:50And then my mate would tell me he was only joking
04:52and he's got the keys to the front door anyway.
04:55That was partying in Habifa.
04:56If you didn't die, you had a story to tell next day.
05:02Where were you getting your cocaine from?
05:04Oh, I can't remember.
05:07Who knows where anyone got any of that stuff from?
05:20Do you know a funny thing?
05:21Most of those clubs,
05:23even if the drug is supposed to be forbidden,
05:26they have a special VIP room
05:29and you can go there, take drug,
05:31have a fast fork or something like that.
05:34I used to have the key of all of them.
05:37I don't know.
05:43I was the boss of an organised crime group,
05:47drug smuggling in Ibiza for 30 years.
05:53Would you be driving a shipment of drugs
05:56in a car like this, then?
05:58Me, I'm not driving the drugs.
06:01I pay people to do it.
06:04Everybody has his mission in life.
06:06Mine was to think and to give orders.
06:10Some people have the mission to listen
06:13and to follow orders.
06:28How long have you been on the island?
06:30I don't know. A couple of months.
06:36You should have solved it.
06:47Okay, let's go.
07:06Filtration
07:09You just walk right in
07:11Walk, walk, walk right in
07:30Gonna get up, gonna get up, gonna get up
07:37Oi, oi
07:39How's your night shift?
07:41Yeah, you?
07:42Yeah, yeah, down here, mate.
07:44Ooh, look at this.
07:46You mind?
07:48Oh, that's wild.
08:07Hey, shut up.
08:21This is our fucking island.
08:29Cut.
08:37Is that how things really went down?
08:39More or less, yes.
08:41Normally it used to be a little bit more blood.
08:45That is what was necessary to do.
08:47It is our territory.
08:49Personally, I try to not use violence.
08:51If it's possible.
08:53I'm not a very, very violent people,
08:56but if I need to use it,
08:58or I need to send people to use it,
09:00I go to do it.
09:01You know, sometimes one bullet
09:03is better than 20 words.
09:06In his 16 years of activity,
09:08the Miami's introduced in our country
09:11at least 7.5 million tons of cocaine.
09:18The Miami's was the biggest group
09:20for drug distribution in Ibiza.
09:25Me, I was there.
09:27I was not one of the founders.
09:29I was a supplier.
09:31The founders are French.
09:34Press reports claim that
09:36Los Miami were making
09:3858 million euros a year.
09:40Probably more than that,
09:42but I don't know.
09:44I'm not a banker.
10:04In the late 90s, early 2000s,
10:06the island was evolving.
10:09All these clubs expanded enormously,
10:12and it coincided with cocaine
10:15becoming far more popular.
10:17But there was a very difficult
10:19balancing act going on,
10:21because Ibiza thrived economically,
10:24but at the same time,
10:26it was a very difficult
10:28place to live.
10:30It thrived economically,
10:32but at the same time,
10:34it was changing.
10:36It was hardening up.
10:38It was turning into a tough,
10:40criminal island.
10:42We've got British crime groups
10:44in San Antonio,
10:46but the rest of the island
10:48is really the Spanish crime groups
10:50who've decided that it's their
10:52territory and they want it.
10:54The dominant group was Los Miami.
10:56They had a hell of a reputation.
10:58They were dominating Madrid
11:00and the area around it,
11:02and they were now transferring their skills,
11:04if you want to call them that,
11:06to Ibiza with great effect.
11:08And I actually met a group of them once,
11:10and it was the most terrifying meeting
11:12I've ever had with criminals.
11:14They didn't laugh.
11:16They didn't smile.
11:18They hardly said a word,
11:20and I remember looking in their eyes,
11:22and there was deadness.
11:24Cocaine brought with it
11:26a new, colder
11:28type of criminal.
11:30And organized crime groups
11:32were all using enforcers
11:34to keep control
11:36of their individual gangs
11:38because what they're trying to tell
11:40their own workforce or other crime gangs
11:42is, do not fuck me over.
11:44We will get you.
11:52Basically,
11:54all the drug cartels
11:56was there in Ibiza.
11:58And I was doing business
12:00and doing things with the highest level
12:02of criminal fraternity
12:04you could ever imagine.
12:16People got cut, beaten, stabbed and shot
12:18over there.
12:20In terms of any other drug habit,
12:24anywhere the criminals go,
12:26drugs, guns and violence goes.
12:28And that's the reality of it.
12:32It was my life.
12:38I've come from a long line of criminals.
12:40I wasn't told we were all criminals,
12:42but, you know,
12:44we got, shh, police.
12:46Someone's at the door, shh.
12:50My dad was an international
12:52drug dealer.
12:54Drove my mum to drink and drugs.
12:56Just sort of rippled into us,
12:58so it was just like a chaotic life
13:00of madness, really, growing up.
13:02Drug abuse from the early age
13:04of 13.
13:06You might smoke,
13:08crack, and then take a gram
13:10or two of heroin to come down.
13:12But I went up the criminal
13:14ladder rapid.
13:16Everything to do with stealing,
13:18robbing, fighting,
13:20guns and drugs, I was in it.
13:24I was the guy that added value
13:26to people by looking after them.
13:32And I've done that through a lot of violence.
13:36It was barbaric.
13:42So you were the guy that could sort of guarantee
13:44that a deal would happen?
13:46Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:48Wow.
13:50You'd be doing something and then
13:52all of a sudden I'd be there, like,
13:54hello, mate.
13:56And I'd be like, fucking hell, man,
13:58what's the matter? I'd say, listen,
14:00what's your fucking problem?
14:02Are you going to do it or not?
14:04It's not complicated, and they'd go,
14:06oh, right, yeah, yeah.
14:08Highbury was a very loving place,
14:10but I never went nowhere
14:12without guns and knives.
14:14And if anybody was at that level of criminal activity,
14:16I never went anywhere without me, man.
14:18That's all you've got to fucking protect yourself.
14:20You can't ring the police.
14:22Like, that was my point with everybody.
14:24Fucking kill me
14:26or you're going to die.
14:47I thought you'd solved it.
14:53They shouldn't be here.
14:57Fucking assholes.
15:09Documentation and the papers of the car.
15:13And I'm going to need you to open the trunk.
15:16I'm going to need you to open the trunk.
15:26I'm going to need you to open the trunk.
15:31Hey, hey, hey, hey,
15:33hands where I can see them.
15:47Venga, va. Circulen.
16:02How easy was it to bribe the police?
16:05I don't like to give money to police
16:07because when you bribe somebody,
16:09you never know if somebody bribe him better to fuck you.
16:12I prefer to do the thing discreetly,
16:15so at the gate of the police station,
16:17you follow them and you know where they live.
16:19Police is only born blood and meat.
16:25And I don't want to have problem with an organisation
16:28who can be very bad with them or their family.
16:36The main apple of cocaine for me is only money.
16:39I don't party with cocaine.
16:41I don't use cocaine.
16:43I don't even like people who use it.
16:46People come to Ibiza to party
16:48and many people think to party they need cocaine,
16:51to be moving, toong, toong, toong,
16:53like the song of the DJs.
16:56The market was huge.
16:58Cocaine would come to Ibiza straight to the nose of somebody
17:01very, very fast.
17:05What was it like working with the cartels?
17:08Depends which one.
17:10I have known Pablo Escogar and for me it was very easy
17:13to work with paramilitaries with Colombia.
17:16Somebody introduced you with the cartel.
17:19It's the same than if you buy a car.
17:24You want a product and a good price, good quality.
17:31And the facility to export.
17:34If it's in a container, it can take three, four months.
17:40To bring from Spain to here, I buy a few fast boats.
17:44But the police was there.
17:47It was cat and mouse.
17:49But you, if you make one mistake, you go to tears inside.
18:10I lived the operation against the drug trafficking organization.
18:18When there is a demand, there are always big or small organizations
18:22that will provide you with drugs.
18:25Cocaine has been brought in sailboats.
18:28It has been brought in machinery.
18:31Then a blanket has been impregnated with coca paste.
18:35Bananas are hollow, they are full of cocaine.
18:38Don't miss the containers,
18:41because there are thousands and thousands of containers.
18:45They have even used submarines to bring cocaine in.
18:51Organizations are always making innovations.
19:00I used to put GPS on all the police boats.
19:03What, you put trackers on those?
19:05Yeah, I put a tracker on all their vehicles, all their boats.
19:11The boats are on the port.
19:13I'm a good diver.
19:21I go at night, I put that with magnetic things.
19:24You know, the police never think somebody's going to do that.
19:28And I knew where they was.
19:31We used to have two or three points on the beach with people waiting.
19:38If they see their boat moving in my direction...
19:45I go somewhere else.
19:47You can either give to the beach
19:49or you can have two or three persons come with jet ski.
19:53Nobody could control that. It's much more easy what people think.
20:00I think it's great that everyone,
20:03that every adult person can consume whatever they want,
20:06but it causes problems, indisputably.
20:13During the whole summer,
20:15the hospitals on the island stop planning operations
20:18that are not super urgent,
20:20because they have to take care of all the intoxicated people with drugs.
20:24I mean, it's really a problem.
20:26But not only that.
20:28In the 90s, criminal organizations started to arrive.
20:33It's true that the islands were a bit of a paradise of freedom
20:37to attract tourists,
20:39but organized crime has it pretty easy on the island, in general.
20:43It's a paradise in many ways.
20:48I suppose it's a good thing
20:50that there's a lot of freedom on the island.
20:53HE CHUCKLES
21:08It wouldn't be a multimillion-pound industry
21:11if the police wasn't involved.
21:14Because they'd do everything they could to stop it.
21:17What, so if you get caught...
21:19How big's the problem, mate?
21:22How big? Please, how big?
21:25And they go, we didn't hear.
21:27And you go...
21:32Oh, fuck off.
21:34That's how it was.
21:41I've been the only journalist in the world
21:44to interview Miami leaders.
21:47He clearly told me that if there was a phrase
21:50that wasn't correct,
21:52that I would know how he would react to me.
21:57Well, I was scared.
21:59Because people can cause you trouble.
22:01And in Spain, making a person disappear
22:03is a bit more expensive than in Colombia,
22:05but it's done, too.
22:07In those years, Miami spent a lot of money
22:10buying police, buying the Civil Guard,
22:13buying the people who control the ports.
22:16They managed to introduce them into politics,
22:19or they bought them with money or with threats.
22:23And going against drug trafficking
22:25is very harmful for the South.
22:28It hurts me to say that I've arrested comrades.
22:31They weren't traffickers,
22:34but they made a big deal out of it,
22:36and they consumed.
22:41I'm a criminologist.
22:44I'm a paramedic,
22:48and I've been in the police for a long time.
22:51I've been in the police for a long time,
22:54and they were consuming.
22:58The Civil Guard and the police,
23:00like all the police in the world,
23:02are honest and honest,
23:04but there are also black people.
23:08The results are much better than good.
23:14Four Colombian citizens have been detained in Ibiza,
23:17who were part of an organization
23:19dedicated to introducing cocaine-based paste to Ibiza.
23:23There have been major shipwrecks,
23:25but we're not supermen either.
23:28We don't wear a cape or we're not superheroes.
23:35I think it was calculated that
23:3730% of the drugs that come in are incautious,
23:40but 70% of them do come in.
23:43You have to take into account
23:46that the person who runs a criminal organization
23:49is not selling drugs.
23:51He's up there financing the operations.
23:55If you have to bring 1,000 kilos of cocaine from South America,
23:59the head of the organization doesn't go on the ship.
24:02For that, she has her lieutenants.
24:06It's kept absolutely anonymous.
24:11One time, the police catch me on the sea near to Ibiza.
24:16Were you on the boat?
24:18No, no, no, I was not on the boat.
24:20The boat was coming from South America
24:22with three person on board,
24:24and the boat have a problem.
24:26Police come, see something strange,
24:29start to search the boat.
24:31They find 216 kilos of cocaine.
24:34They say,
24:36They start to search the boat.
24:38They find 216 kilos of cocaine.
24:41Me, I don't want to lose my money.
24:44That's easy.
24:46They send the merchandise
24:48to bunker of the police station.
24:51They sit.
24:53I think a little bit.
24:55I organize, and I go to take it.
25:00I make a very nice hole on the concrete,
25:03go inside the police station,
25:05take my 216 kilos of cocaine,
25:08some more what they have there.
25:13I go back, go to Madrid, sell my stuff,
25:16and be very happy.
25:18If you come to me, sell from me,
25:20I go to steal from you with interest.
25:23Action reaction.
25:24You fuck me, I fuck you.
25:26But if you fuck me, I go to fuck you harder.
25:35The cocaine has also generated
25:38some very serious problems.
25:41But not because of its consumption,
25:44but because the organizations
25:46of organized delinquency
25:48were going to Ibiza to have fun.
25:53I had the authorization
25:55for an American Express black card.
25:58So I'm in the IB farm,
26:00and I was spending like the king.
26:04I've been on the yachts partying,
26:06on the super yachts.
26:08My drink of choice was Dom Pérignon,
26:10so I'm giving it the absolute big'em.
26:12Partying, partying, partying, partying,
26:14buying everybody everything.
26:16At the time, everything's the best in the world, man.
26:19Everything's fun.
26:34It's beyond your wildest dreams.
26:36It really is.
26:38If I'm being honest,
26:40we was just insane.
26:42And it was just, it felt normal.
26:46But Ibiza had a really dark side to it
26:51that you can only really suffer
26:54for a little period of time,
26:56otherwise you'll crack up.
26:58And a lot of people did crack up to my Ibiza.
27:02Some people lost the pot over there, man,
27:04because it was deep over there.
27:14I thought about this the other day.
27:16Someone was in a club once,
27:17they were talking about someone else,
27:18and they went,
27:19that guy's just a cokehead.
27:21And I thought, how glamorous is that?
27:23That's how twisted I used to be.
27:24I thought, how glamorous is that?
27:25That's what I want to be.
27:26I want to be a cokehead.
27:28I thought, how glamorous is that?
27:29That's what I want to be.
27:30I want to be a cokehead.
27:32And I did, and I was.
27:35And the more successful we were,
27:38the more I was taken.
27:41Could just go on for days.
27:44But it was always the same.
27:47Always made me clam up.
27:48Always made me like, like that, weary.
27:50My eyes got bigger.
27:53It was just overpowering.
27:55I did it.
27:56I did it for years.
27:59But, isn't that fun?
28:01The paranoia.
28:03You can't think straight.
28:05Everything's heightened.
28:07Everyone going, what's that noise?
28:09Who said that?
28:10I didn't say nothing.
28:11What's going on?
28:12Who's outside?
28:14And you're all going hide in a darkened room
28:16and looking out the curtains.
28:18I used to think people were living in my flat,
28:21in the cupboards.
28:22I'd search for them with a knife every night.
28:24I know you're in here.
28:25And in the end, it broke me.
28:27It literally broke me.
28:29I'd be frozen to a chair.
28:32I'd just literally sit like that.
28:35Frozen to the chair.
28:36There was no partying.
28:37There was no conversation.
28:39It was like a crack house.
28:42That ain't normal.
28:43Do you know what I mean?
28:44That ain't normal.
28:54Fuck.
29:24Fuck.
29:54Fuck.
30:20You fucked up.
30:21What?
30:23You owe me one.
30:25I don't owe you a fucking shit.
30:33You have to be careful.
30:40All of the crime groups were filled with problems with cocaine.
30:44The criminal bosses themselves were getting increasingly paranoid
30:49about what their soldiers and their gangs were up to.
30:52And that was leading to even more irritation, violence, paranoia.
30:59Honestly, it was a really bad environment to be in.
31:05You always look at your shoulder whatever you do
31:08because many times your best friend of today
31:11can be your worst enemy of tomorrow.
31:20In 1990, the Miami's was extremely strong.
31:24Nothing lasts forever.
31:27The problem with the Miami's comes from the Miami's.
31:30Everybody wants to be a chief.
31:32And they start to try to kill each other.
31:37I let them fight.
31:38It was not my business.
31:40I was not a soldier.
31:42The boss was being tried by the Miami's.
31:45I was not a soldier.
31:47The boss was being tried by another member of the group
31:50who actually was supposed to be his best friend.
31:53He sent two guys to shoot him in the car.
31:56He got six bullets on the back.
31:58And that was the end of the Miami's.
32:00The organization died.
32:02Multiple groups tried to take control of this huge business in Ibiza.
32:07It caused violence.
32:09They started to fight each other to take this power.
32:12It was complicated after.
32:16While there is only one mafia group working,
32:19everything is peace and harmony.
32:21But when there is a conflict and competition,
32:24there is always an increase of violence.
32:27It is a fact that can happen and usually happens.
32:31There have been shootings.
32:33There have been attacks with white weapons.
32:36And there are a lot of corpses.
32:40Very close to my place of residence,
32:43in a torrent, they found a corpse.
32:46It was found by a couple of friends who were walking with the dog.
32:50The dog came out with a bag and an arm or a leg of a man
32:53in a garbage bag.
32:55And it was there in pieces, scattered in garbage bags.
32:59But yes, these things happen.
33:03It is linked to this type of market.
33:06Basically, when I think about what has become my house,
33:10it invades me with a feeling of impotence and horror
33:14that is quite important.
33:40It can happen in the next hour, let alone the next day.
33:46Put it this way, I never got stabbed.
33:49I did get shot, but I got shot by my own people,
33:51not by the Europeans.
33:53My own people shot me.
33:55And the reason why I got shot
33:57was because people wanted to mess about with the prices.
34:00So I got shot to be taken out of the way.
34:03Really?
34:05Yes, because everyone wants to make more money for themselves,
34:08and everyone in the drug game is a slag
34:10that wants to make as much money as they can for themselves.
34:13So, look, halfway down the leg,
34:15you can actually see the bullet, yeah?
34:17The whole bullet, see it?
34:19I got told I'll never walk again.
34:21But, yeah, the bullet, it went through the eye.
34:24There's the bullet, that white thing there is the bullet,
34:28and it stopped halfway through my eye.
34:31And I don't know what stopped it.
34:33It's a bit of a miracle you walked away from that, isn't it?
34:38I believe so.
35:09HE PANTS
35:21GUNSHOT
35:27Why didn't you end up like that?
35:29I have been like that. Look, I have a bullet here.
35:32Went through from here, take those two,
35:34then a bullet went from that side.
35:36Someone shot you?
35:38For sure. A few times.
35:40I have a few bullets in my body.
35:42What happened?
35:44People want to be me.
35:46I don't want to be me.
35:48They try to do, and they lose.
35:51I get the bullet,
35:53but them also, they lose bullet.
35:56They get some bullets.
36:06REPORTER SPEAKS IN SPANISH
36:37REPORTER SPEAKS IN SPANISH
36:49You were arrested in 2011 for crimes including drug trafficking,
36:54kidnapping, violent robberies,
36:56the mutilation and amputation of limbs, and money laundering.
37:00Yes, but I've been absolved.
37:02I have nothing to do with that.
37:05Or if I have done, maybe I do it very well,
37:08because I don't do one day of jail for that.
37:11I don't know about that.
37:41REPORTER SPEAKS IN SPANISH
38:05Why did you turn your back on the drug world?
38:08The drug world? No, it was not the drug world.
38:11It was all the entire crime life.
38:16I think what happened with people who get each sentence,
38:20and I was afraid,
38:22because the law enforcement is much more prepared,
38:27and I don't want to fight against people who are better than me.
38:32And I have no time to stay in jail.
38:35I'm 60 years. I have things that I still want to do.
38:48Now I live in a jungle in Kenya,
38:51full of animals and a big conservancy that I have created.
38:58Did you ever feel guilty?
39:02Guilty of what?
39:04People who had overdosed,
39:06had become addicted to drugs that you were involved in moving.
39:10I'm not forced them.
39:12I don't put them a gun in their head to tell them to take the drug.
39:15So you didn't have empathy for them?
39:19Why I got to have it?
39:23You think a supermarket care because people drink too much alcohol?
39:29Me, no.
39:35In the height of my addiction,
39:37I used to be sitting there gasping for breath, paranoid,
39:40thinking, if I die now, I'll die happy.
39:43And that's sad.
39:47We was in a restaurant one night,
39:49and I pressed what they call the fuck it button.
39:51I went, fuck it, I'm drunk now, I've done this shot, I've done that.
39:54Give me loads of pills, give me some weed, give me some more gear.
39:57At the end of that night, my head was like a melon,
40:00and I actually thought it was going to split open.
40:02That was the pain in my head.
40:04Like, insanity.
40:06And I woke up the next morning and rang my mum up,
40:08who was, how long was she sober by then?
40:1117 years?
40:13I just said, I don't think I can do this anymore.
40:16The actual desire to want to drink and to get on it every day
40:19was gone from that moment.
40:31I blame the island for many, many years.
40:33That's how mental I am.
40:35Nothing to do with the island.
40:37It was who I was as a person.
40:47I wouldn't go back there myself, personally.
40:50Too many triggers of my old life.
40:52Although it's very glamorous to some people,
40:55it's a world that they wish they could live in.
40:58It's a world that they wish they never got involved in
41:01once it falls deep in the drug trade.
41:03I mean, it's not a place you want to be in.
41:06It's not a world that you can be proud of.
41:09And it's not a place that you want your kids to be.
41:12So what's the point?
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41:27I'd thought about the ripple effect of my actions.
41:32I just thought, wow, like, we do this to everyone else's kids,
41:37everyone else's family.
41:39It's just coming as a madness.
41:41And that was my turning point.
41:45I'm embarrassed beyond belief
41:49that I actually believed that being a criminal
41:52was a much better option than doing anything else.
41:55Like, I'm actually embarrassed I was that thing.
42:09Drugs have provided the good, the bad and the ugly,
42:12as far as Ibiza is concerned.
42:14Its finances and its economy have continued to boom beyond belief.
42:21And yet, in the core of it, it's got a criminal element
42:25that probably no other island in the world has got.
42:30I don't really think, at the end, they want to stop the drug,
42:35because if they stop the drug completely, nobody's going to come here.
42:42Drugs are not an economic benefit for the island in any way.
42:46Drugs don't pay taxes.
42:48It's an illegal economy.
42:50But drug dealers have a responsibility.
42:53Because to take drugs, it's not necessary
42:56to finance international criminal organisations
42:59responsible for murders, kidnappings, abductions.
43:04Are you really aware of who you're dealing with?
43:09There was a certain environment
43:13where in Ibiza it was legal to take drugs.
43:18And, of course, if you took them, you could also traffic them.
43:23But we're not going to end up with the problem.
43:26But if the police weren't there, it would be much worse.
43:31I mean, it would be a disaster.
43:34Something about this island kept drawing me back.
43:38Some would say, like, the party scene.
43:40But it's something else about it.
43:42Only when I got sober did I actually realise what it was.
43:46It's just upbeat for itself.
43:48Everything that it gives to you, the beauty, the relaxation,
43:52the food, the countryside, and the smell.
43:56That pine, the sea.
43:58When I'm here and I smell it, I'm back in my spiritual place.
44:03It's just magical, amazing, life-changing.
44:07Not to be forgotten.
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