Overview
- The ZDF documentary, now available to stream, follows Lanz from war‑scarred Syria through Senegal to migrant camps and fields in southern Italy.
- In Syria, survivors describe Sednaya prison as a slaughterhouse where up to 30,000 people were killed after torture, with ex‑detainee Bahar recounting years in an overcrowded cell.
- In Senegal, interviewees cite deep poverty and scarce jobs as drivers to Europe, with some paying about €500 for perilous sea crossings of roughly 1,500 km toward the Canary Islands.
- Anonymously interviewed smugglers vow to keep finding routes, while expert Fabian Heppe of the Heinrich‑Böll‑Stiftung warns that harsher policies shift flows to more dangerous paths rather than reducing arrivals.
- In Italy’s Apulia region, migrants harvest crops for around €35 a day and live in squalid settlements such as Borgo Mezzanone, which a local official condemns as a disgrace for Europe, prompting Lanz’s verdict that the system is completely broken.