experience or freedom sounds like a few minutes of. your care visit with your car come back. when you're sure whatever and i work you know. i'm a southern periphery of europe men and women are the so-called mules of a lucrative trade the loads they holler cross the border are regarded as hand luggage and exempt from duty providing a business opportunity for unscrupulous traders and smugglers. who sit at the head of a hall of course it's tiring effort but you just have to keep going because you have your family to feed in a hands on some of them at fourteen or fifteen years old but i'd never let my children do that.

for sixteen years now nor a cuckoo who has been toiling away as a point here daughter or female porter. if my name is nora and i'm forty three years old i live in rented accommodation in value. i have six children and i am a widow of life as a smuggler is tough and things are getting increasingly difficult at the border so the whole burden rests on my shoulders when my husband was alive he paid half the rent that he took the children to school and looked after us now i have to see to everything. housekeeping the cooking the kids' homework i'm responsible for

everything last night i made a joke i told my children i was going to leave them they burst into tears what am i going to do it's a fight for survival it's. a spanish semi enclave on the mediterranean coast of north africa and has become famous in recent years through images of people scaling fences to enter but there are other reasons why this place is so singular economically malea lives from tax concessions and border traffic the proximity to morocco and that's to the african continent opens up a coveted market. after cattle and fun she is a trade unionist and melia and of moroccan descent. he documents the exploitation of the disadvantaged and underprivileged people on the border including the mule women. when the preserving the road and the

ownership the water i saw these women for the first time when i was seven or eight because we lived quite near the border and it was perfectly normal to see them working between malea and morocco of them it's a form of survival because there are no jobs neither in malaya nor in morocco the only way to ensure a daily income is to join the smuggling business and carry the packages. out of. the hotel i think the porters are the final link in the smuggling chain in malaya you. go to the other one the smugglers earn millions of euros on the border on the other side there is the government which profits from the local it's eleven and other taxes a lot of profit is being made but it's not being distributed fairly the we're in on who shoulders the heaviest burden rests on the least.

hollo mahmoud can we get together later and deliver food to some of the women i've arranged to meet. would four or five packets be ok. thanks a seal it's a. it's early morning at the body of chino border crossing a normal days it's open for three hours during which up to three thousand americans cross over to collect their loads for transport on this particular day the border is closed to goods traffic no reason has been given nor a kook who is one of the few portier daughters to be let through up to twenty is already expecting her. gas. got older i get up at three in the morning

wash pray wake the children and prepare their school sandwiches and thermos flask i lock the door and go and wait in the first queue if i know any of the police officers they let me through a year as a danish terms of a marathon marriage methyl our marriage when i arrive in militia i have to wait in a queue with the women normally we each carry one veil but if the gallery has a view a nice i'm allowed to carry to one on my back and the other on a skateboard we are paid on delivering provided nothing was stolen and everything is intact then i get twenty euros. romani yen works for the guardia severe police and border patrol force and malea. here at the interface between africa and europe the fences are getting higher and higher but they cannot stop the informal trade from monday and monitors the goods

traffic on the border between spain and morocco. on his daily patrols he comes into contact with his moroccan colleagues everything ok so there is the almost and we are now at the end of the border. device lover idea the border is marked by various sections i'm by white signs with the designation a one. core america all three automakers that border the fences eight meters high in all there are three fences all made of fine mesh special wire by. law board to me that there are no jobs in morocco or any chance of social advancement the health care and education systems are both very expensive so these women come here to try

and build a life. that. is part of spain but doesn't belong to the european customs union the duty free transport of goods is actually illegal but it is tolerated as long as only hand luggage is involved irrespective of the weight really. doesn't belong to the european customs union there is no value added tax here just the local. i couldn't emotionally an autonomous municipal tax which is lower than the tax rate in spain. and this bunya. for centuries melia was a spanish colony on african soil after america gained independence malaya remains spanish but even today the enclave is not recognized by the kingdom of morocco. so the question is how much longer will smuggling three million be tolerated experts estimate the genie free trade to be worth three hundred million years

a year a large proportion of which flows straight into minnesota coffers. on the seafront however there is little sign of the important trade being conducted on the border. not hunted up to pad their imports old clothes from europe and asia. he's a traitor who like his father and. and father before him runs one of the warehouses today its doors remain shut mohamed is furious he reckons he could lose a lot of money program army money. that the problem is that they've closed the border it's an international border and nobody knows why it has been closed we want the government to give us a reason. and i'll assume there will be a look for giving a year or. so i go.

with the good that we're not a moment of rather sure there are large profits to be made and the autonomous municipality of malea also earns from the trade we do well from the business of course that's normal but the government earns three times more from it than we do. he stores the goods are various traders and his warehouse financed with a loan from the municipality. actually i work for thirty or below there are bales here full of secondhand clothes destined for the third world. but. this is all clothing shoes skirts trousers. clothing more clothing socks trousers. wherever the bad girls shoes perhaps and more clothing service is bedding my blankets. even

more clothing. what you see here is worth between one hundred fifty and two hundred thousand euros. there are no checks at the border to see if the bells contain any additional hidden items. who exactly makes money out of smuggled second hand goods nobody wants and how can this kind of exploitation with duty free hand luggage on european soil be justified abdul malik about conny is spain's first muslim prefect he sees both sides to the mill women issue a practice which he tolerated but doesn't approve of in tahoe. which you cannot possibly the work of the porter goss has many effects. which are of his in one i find it inhuman but always hard and sometimes the cause of many problems especially health related bodies probably most probably most dissolute i personally do not like that i mean it is not good for them or for us or for the rest of the world to

me but i used. to. but i am morocco is trying to lower the tax on imported goods to make them cheaper but if that happens one day goods will then be supplied straight to morocco at the victim and will not come in via. me but until that day arrives melia will continue to play an important role for the entire north african hinterland not. the bottleneck which separates spain from our aco is only a few hundred meters long the fact that the border is closed will have dire consequences especially for the mule women their hard work provides women like nada with a fluctuating income of around three hundred euros a month. to me now we carry a lot across the border and when it's crowded and you are stuck you can't put your nose down they tell you you've just got to wait but then i get these pains which

can last for up to three. the corps digs into your skin and leaves skulls. yes it's simply too late i pray that god will take care of my children i've been suffering for as long as i can remember i was already working at the age of ten i worked for my parents and my grandmother i'm used to suffering i've worked ever since i was little if only i had a small house then everything wouldn't be so hard to take death quite a shock. the rent is killing me.

the barrier chino border crossing point it's seven am there's every indication that today the border will be opened and the transport of goods will continue people are flocking here from all over. the middle men are also gathering at the border. closer to come up to do and i've been here since yesterday afternoon i slept here and now i'm waiting to deliver my goods if the goods alight i give them to the women and they tie them to their backs if the white is more than sixty kilograms we give the goods to the men. in the city areas. in order el cuckoo has been waiting in line for two hours now she makes a dash for it if she can get

a bill quickly. she'll be able to do several trips the packages the women carry off and do way more than sixty kilos today more and more men are also earning a living by transporting goods the competition is tough. both abdelkader air of fun tea and romance yen are watching events each from his own perspective. that of course it is not my personal responsibility to safeguard the health of the people here but it is the responsibility of the guardia civil there it is about the people from the men and the women we have to ensure that they stay physically sounding of syria africa . you know so many of you on the men have to form one line the women another but the women are allowed through first and then the mental illness. in the area

where you from. all that i thought it. was up to cut their is looking for nora she's not easy to find amidst all the commotion. and. finally spotter. it's like a war zone. you've just got to stick at it. we will never win with these women or at great risk killing and they never went to school so most are illiterate song but the going to soon learn my lesson and they don't know how they should behave so they are the ones who need help most they're supposed to knock him and do the necessary them. to.

the carriers use special skate board so they can push their packages at him. you'll want to get the idea came from a colleague in the wadi a civill who wanted to help people in particular women to transport the heavy gales because this was handmade. you can see it's wood this wheel comes from a roller skate. the skate board helps to roll the bales uphill up or that it will be. the. distribution of the bells which can weigh as much as a washing machine gets underway nora is one of the first to collect a load of crap that we wait here for the severe who allocate has if we're lucky the women go first and then the men at the table. nora is out of luck the men are the first to be let through the transport process

is divided up into several stages time and again it's a case of rolling pushing waiting and then returning to the friend and young life. look the men always come first you. want to turn one how long have you been doing this. then you're the last thing you did in. your first year as a seven year old she worked for six years on the main board appointed by an e.s.r. and then here. on going to the hermitage you how long have you been working in body or chino personally and they're going to lead you happy we have here are we going to tell you she's been earning a living here with dignity for ten years been i mean gave you the you. now it's the women's turn they are driven like mules and have to wait repeatedly.

many hide their faces. they're ashamed to be seen doing this kind of work. now he was telling us this isn't work it's war it's killing us. you can have. the endless waiting delays transportation and heats up the general mood but the carriers seem remarkably patient. in the fire to. know that you know as a woman. mohamed the trader is at the border to check that his goods really do make it across as duty free hand luggage with the poor we have three who are crossing points this is an international border that has been closed and the official explanation is that there is a technical problem to serve your program attorney. general remittance and these women have to earn money to buy food so if they are prevented from doing this work

they will suffer more than i love though they already are suffering the you know why they carry so much it wants to look at the world because they're only allowed to cross the border once upon a sermon if they could cross it several times they'd only carry small packages weighing five kilos but the spanish authorities won't allow that operated. today the human mules are in luck they are allowed to cross the border several times with goods. from the f.a.a. . another train out queue up again and try to get to bear arms in. annapolis or the family banishing isn't it. that they're. getting this round of trips will be the last of the day the atmosphere is getting

heated nobody wants. they struck with their goods so everybody tries to dodge that you. hand. the problem of the commercial because see the problem with informal trading is that there are too many diverging interests. a solution and not putting a lot simpler sergio's the smugglers say the border isn't open long enough. when the government says the border isn't there just for smuggling in trade. and you know. i think morocco and spain need to get together and talk about they have to find a solution otherwise nothing will change but what i don't associate most. if

not all of this we've got. it's a question of necessity of course it is also a form of exploitation but nobody forces the men all the women to do the work i really thought i said that i was. nor i has no choice if she has to feed her children she has to haul and heave up to three hundred kilograms of goods over the border every day no matter how much her back her. care kyra if the work hasn't been too tough you get her meant eleven in a good mood but the thirty euros i have earned i go shopping pay off some of my debts and make the children something to eat. so i'm glad just to be back at home here who say do it or the fact they had.

nora always carries a photograph of her deceased husband and their children with her i mean i was working for a woman just after i'd given birth she wanted to find me a job in the strawberry fields. looks like he is still alive. crikey i do my best and i have to be strong otherwise my children will suffer even if i've had a hard day i'd tell them i'm fine i lied to them has a way of supreme. god helps everyone provided you do everything right life for me is tough i just have to make the best of it.

and he is already on the move again he's come to this mosque to meet someone. this is. the only that little bit there is a fund financed by the countries of the european union the food industry donates pastor and milk for regions in desperate need as we have seen the crisis in spain has plunged many people into poverty we took a liking to seek out we're going to. be the meter. this food bank was created to help them. develop a sauna. as often as he can he delivers the food to women at the meeting

point emelia. it is done by asking what that it would. is far more the gateway to africa than to europe. nothing another here the working conditions alone are totally different from those in europe and we have a lot of problems to cope with migration street children poverty social. and the plight of young people we have the lowest standard of education in europe and at the same time the highest unemployment figures are in there with the politicians are doing nothing to improve the situation all they are interested in is obtaining more aid so they can fill their pockets that butt out robotic. somewhat equal hello how are you right come with me then what about the told woman where is she. there was it what is it over there they wouldn't let her across the

border. that's fate you're right. there you are abduct her dad distributes packages of food to the mule women many of them are dependent on the donations. i feel bad because many have waited in vain for i don't have enough food. how do you think i feel. let's hope we can work again on monday. it remains to be seen whether the border will be opened again on monday what is certain is that at five o'clock tomorrow morning nor al kooper will again be standing by the fence and enter the inhuman working conditions on europe's outer borders nowhere in sight a brutal form of exploitation in europe but for nora it is her livelihood.

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