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Criminal Gangs Exploiting the Olive Oil Crisis in Spain
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Criminal Gangs Exploiting the Olive Oil Crisis in Spain

28 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Drought has cut Spain's olive harvests nearly in half over 2022 and 2023, sending prices soaring and turning olive groves into targets for organized theft. Farmer Antonio Basa now patrols his fields at night after working them all day, exhausted and increasingly ready to give up on the business. José Medina from Zafra describes four separate break-ins that cost him 80,000 euros in stolen olive oil, an investigation that has gone nowhere, and insurers who refuse to pay, pushing him toward bankruptcy. Fran Camorra of the Guardia Civil's Seprona nature protection unit lays out the scale of the problem from the police side, admitting his officers secure convictions in barely 10 percent of these cases despite deploying motorbikes, drones, and thermal cameras. The film moves between grove, warehouse, and patrol vehicle, letting farmers and investigators describe a crime wave that climate stress created and that law enforcement cannot fully contain. Spain remains the world's largest olive oil producer, which is exactly why the theft matters.