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- Contrary to France, Italy does not belong to the 7 countries who signed the Schengen Agreement.

- The Italians use great means to fight against massive arrival of clandestines, a movement that increased with the Yugoslav Wars.

- Reporting by François Guillaume and Patrick Milério.

- The clandestine odyssey of those Kurds coming from Turkey ended here, on the road of the coast.

- Early morning, a military patrol drove them out, they had just embarked on a zodiac boat that left 2 hours earlier from Albania.

- We can’t live anymore in Kurdistan. Turkish soldiers chased me out. They sacked my house, they looted everything. Sometimes they kill people, so we come, that’s safer.

- Like Abdullah, dozens of them try to cross every night.

- Albanians, former Yugoslavs, Egyptians, Maghrebis, Pakistanis, and even Chinese.

- Everyone has their own sector but the crossing prices don’t change much:

- an average of 2, 500 Francs per person.

- The traffic mounted by the Albanians with the support of the local Mafia is lucrative. With one trip, smugglers earn from 25 to 200,000 Francs on clandestines’ back.

- As a reaction, the army was deployed on the coast 2 months and a half ago.

- 600 men, cross-country vehicles, helicopters that patrol over the region 24 hours a day.

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- A device that permitted to slow down the arrival of clandestine, but not to stop them.

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- The army stops 60% of the clandestine.

- But it cannot control the whole zone.

- There are 50km of coast that are convenient for landing.

- That’s huge.

- The army cannot get every clandestine who want to get to Italy.

- Those who are arrested easily surround the Italian law on immigration.

- Apart from the Albanians, immediately pushed out in accordance with an Italian Albanian convention, they have 2 weeks to regulate their situation.

- A sufficient deferment to disappear in nature.

- Italian justice is certain that this traffic of clandestine hides other mafia activities. Arms dealing towards former Yugoslavia, drug dealing and even nuclear material.