Tracking Down Serbia's Danube River Pirates
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VICE Serbia explores how pirates, mostly through deals made with international boat crews, illegally load off oil, ores or fertilizers that they later sell on black market. Such activities are often followed with great risks and violence between rival gangs is quite common.
The Danube flow through Serbia is 600 kilometers long and a lot of international transport goes along the river. Serbia has been blacklisted by a number of international companies because of illegal river trade or, more commonly said, piracy.
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This is NOT piracy, it's smuggling.
@unknownentity8256
3 жыл бұрын
I'd bet they do raiding and human trafficking aswell on those boats, so probably piracy aswell. But they are covering smuggling in this episode yes.
@FilK79
2 жыл бұрын
@@unknownentity8256 you bet but you know sh*t, no, there is no raiding or human trafficking.
@unknownentity8256
2 жыл бұрын
@@FilK79 Why not?
@FilK79
2 жыл бұрын
@@unknownentity8256 because I been there several times and have family living close, and never any human traficking or pirate style raiding was known. There was human traficking only during times of Ceausescu in Romania and my mother even worked for UN to receve the Romanian refuges escaping communist rule there and comming to Yugoslavia, but that was in the 1980s in totally other context. PS:Sorry because of my language in my earlier comment.
This is black marketeering and tax avoidance, it is NOT piracy.
@andrebarros7703
7 жыл бұрын
this is agorism! :D
@kutbi9674
7 жыл бұрын
this is homosexuality
@cobydrei
7 жыл бұрын
this is illuminati
@ram14lk4r4
7 жыл бұрын
this is sparta!!
@CGoody564
7 жыл бұрын
if only certain crew are aware/bribed and weapons are used, it's pirating.
"Hey cousin, it's your cousin! You wanna go siphon some oil and go bowling after?"
@RocketLR
7 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHA I started to instantly read that with Romans voice in my head.
17:56 you ask the man a question, which he gives you an answer to. Then you say "OFF THE RECORD" and ask about the same subject again, then you go ahead and use the footage for your report? Have some professional pride... Be an honest reporter, that means being honest with the people you're interviewing
@DeezNutz-qb2uf
7 жыл бұрын
Copypasta from another comment: It was translated wrong.... He never said "off the record." He just said "in your experience."
@lejink
7 жыл бұрын
Ah, thank you. I'll leave my comment up so others can see your clarification on the mistranslation
@tojge
7 жыл бұрын
Well, actually... he said both... the exact sentence was "iz vašeg iskustva, kako biste rekli nezvanično", which most people would translate to "based on your experience and speaking off the record", though to be fair, "nezvanično" does not really holds the same weight as "off the record", it's more like "unofficially", if that makes any sense... source: native Serbian speaker :)
@SUPERGENKI
7 жыл бұрын
I second that!
@Mk43305
7 жыл бұрын
A honest reporter ? Did ya find any yet , cuz thats like a paradox ! It's like saying can you be more like a jewish nazi.
"turim hi na kurac" ahahahaha
Thanks for the documentary Vice, it was really well done! Great subtitles and great filming in general. Showing all the parts, and getting inside the important players of this "game". Unfortunatelly, comments under your video are always crap...
@RussianWhiteX
7 жыл бұрын
+Turin Turambar No. Another video that is unusual to people and the narrow-minded noobs will start bitching. People's lives are so shit that they just want to see violence and illegal activities.
@bimazivanovic4784
3 жыл бұрын
If you are not a native speaker then the subtitles were great🤣🤣🤣
17:46 So he makes an off the record statement, and you put it in a video; such integrity Vice.
@MT.MKD12
7 жыл бұрын
He also said "Незванично"-Nezvanicno=Unofficialy(Off the record)
@alexhawdon
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. They either need to update their transcription, or delete that bit. I know Vice like to be 'edgy', but that's not taking licence, that's abusing journalism.
@zeljkapetrovic5348
7 жыл бұрын
MrTater122
@luxmanbruv9624
5 жыл бұрын
bruh vice is literally gay
watching him change the tyre was probably the best part of that piece.
I honestly have never heard of pirates over here, ever. This, wtf?!?
@user-xk5rl1nc5z
5 жыл бұрын
Nisam ni ja
@ok-vy9dx
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-xk5rl1nc5z kasnis 2 godine
@user-xk5rl1nc5z
5 жыл бұрын
@@ok-vy9dx Takođe
15:38 wu tang graffiti in Smederevo, Serbia. This planet is truly one big global village.
@ireviewshtuff
7 жыл бұрын
Serbia must have good neck protection
@rankoorovic1637
7 жыл бұрын
Yes the world is full off morons everywhere.
@slayerSRBIJA89
7 жыл бұрын
Ranko Orovic fuck you. wu tang are cool.
@mare1x2
7 жыл бұрын
Whats wrong with that?
@golubhimself
7 жыл бұрын
Yo ho yo ho, a Triad's life for me
for those of you think that the are is dangerous. It is not at all. these aren't the classic pirates you are thinking that board a ship and steal all the cargo and money. These people are in business with the people working on the cargo ship and everything is done through deals. They do not harm any civillians or cause any problems to anyone. Smederevo is actually quite nice.
I regret to not have travelled trought out the Balkans, I made it as far as Dubrovnik only and Korcula
@stefan2serb
5 жыл бұрын
you saw the touristy stuff then, I'm not sure going further South would be that fulfilling for you to be honest mate, whole Balkans is downhill after Summer in Dalmatia
The City itself isnt really that dangerous at all. Actually we went there with school and its really nice.
Epic tire change scene at the end!
its not piracy if the captain calls u to buy his cargo
@RussianWhiteX
7 жыл бұрын
How do you thinks pirates sold the goods they had acquired? They didn't have phones but still
@RocketLR
7 жыл бұрын
Vice has nothing better to report on so they turn to clickbaiting and bullshitting.
@CGoody564
7 жыл бұрын
if you watch to the end, the presenter tells you that...
love the Tibia shirt. I've been playing that game since '95
Respect to this guy
What a load of bullshit After watching the full 25 minutes I'm highly disapointed
@manus3203
7 жыл бұрын
his hue hue
@user-sd8ec5jv2z
7 жыл бұрын
Yup... Same here. I was expecting armed boarding of ships, not some menial buying off of scraps.
@connorweiss500
7 жыл бұрын
ik I though I deal would go down
@mattg3696
7 жыл бұрын
that's vice for you. click bate title with little substance.
@oloplyflapdar7384
7 жыл бұрын
It almost as if having a transparent title would dissuade anyone from watching it.
kako bre oni svi pokazuju mesta a dovoljno je policiji da samo vidi ovaj snimak i sve je gotovo
Good video thank you vice, Croatian here!
Serbian kinda sounds like a mix of czech and portuguese.
@ndjukic2464
7 жыл бұрын
lol i went more for polish and portugese, but slow portugese that is 😂
@goodnightrelaxandletgo7551
7 жыл бұрын
have you ever heard portuguese?
@swetlion8998
7 жыл бұрын
Yes i have heared alot of portugese it's a beautiful language and i said Serbian KINDA sounded like portugese.
@swetlion8998
7 жыл бұрын
Yes probably the guy
@swetlion8998
7 жыл бұрын
I know how they speak in the eastern block, blin.
How are the boats and the crews able to sell the oil on their boats without it being noticed by the overlooking companies? Who are the boats delivering the oil to? Who are the captains stealing from if they sell the onboard oil to the ''pirates''? I don't understand the concept of how exactly this works.
You can find pirates in their government..
This is so tense, had to stop after about 5 min
but what happens when the boats arrive at their goal and it turns out that cargo is missing or not there at all???
very cool video
"Of the record, what is your personal opinion?" *keeps on recording*
Vice docs and chill
Oh its that hipster again, come on vice, give us more Simon!
@AK-hi7mg
7 жыл бұрын
its,,actually,,jerome,,boateng
Got the pirate ad for geico on this lol.
The subtitles make them sound way more serious, but in fact, they all speak a bit slangily. :)
Reading subtitles sucks hard guys!
Jebote ovo ko da je zapelo u 90ima...
st. pauli :-) pozdrav iz hamburga
the subtitles could have used a bit more loving, they are hard to follow
the geico ad before this video was the worst 30 seconds ive seen
thise vice guy does really good documentarys i like him
I'm starting to feel as if there are no cool pirates left in the world....
Zivim u Smederevu. kakva crvena zona, o cemu pricas? Opisao si kao najgori kriminalni grad sto uopste nije istina...
@asmirasmir522
5 жыл бұрын
Idle Idle a dobro, Vice inace napuše situaciju zbog gledanosti. Svaku njihovu reportažu treba posmatrati sa dozom rezerve.
@prirodnjak546
3 жыл бұрын
Pa nije kriminalno najgori, ali sve ostalo jeste, mogucnost zaposljenja, zagadjenje i sve ostalo. Nazalost moj grad ali teska srca moram priznati da mi se gadi..
Last time I was this early..... I was able to think of a good joke
oh my ancestors could of been river pirates. the chance is nice to know
Was that yellow things in the river an oil?
That is kind of like asking your drug dealer neighbours if you can film them selling and buying whatever it is they sell..........not really likely to happen. I went to a store to speak to a pharmacist that had lied to me and as soon as she saw me press "record" on my phone, just to record the conversation she changed what she said and told me I had canceled my order.
Im Serbian and what pirates are you talking about? They are smugglers , not pirates also when smederevo was dangerous city? Wtf is wrong with western media... Edit: Also subtitles are very bad
flat tire was scariest part
Heeeeey my dads from Serbia!
GOLUBE CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT SERBIAN TECHNO SCENE BEOGRAD VS NOVI SAD ETC? IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE IT GET DONE...KEEP UP
@KosovoReport
6 жыл бұрын
Fuck techno music. Long live Turbofolk.
Technically they're not pirates, smugglers maybe..
jebote zivot prvie video koji sam vide na viceu i i8ma serbia u njemu
Nice outro *8 )
Why is everything gray in eastern europe?
@stizanley3987
7 жыл бұрын
Serbia is very eastern. It's Southeastern Europe, closer to Turkey than it is France.
@stizanley3987
7 жыл бұрын
Dude look up eastern Europe, just look it up. No one considers Serbia to be a western country. France is a true Western European country, like Germany or Spain. Turkey is a Eastern European country, like Serbia Ukraine, and Romania.
@FeralCrimson
7 жыл бұрын
Generally, all factors considered, people categorize it as belonging to southeast Europe (Balkans), with the northern province Vojvodina belonging to central Europe, which is way more accurate culturally. If you're gonna separate Europe in half based on culture, it is still east, so you are still right but for the wrong reasons. The distinction is more prominent in Europe i guess.
@Skindoggiedog
7 жыл бұрын
Serbia is not part of the group of internationally-recognised countries that Eastern Europe is comprised of. It's classed as Southern Europe.
@stizanley3987
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that sounds right.
This is some Far Cry shit right here when he switches to GoPro
Vice, make a video about recent news on Hillary and leaked emails! And Julian Assange commentaries on this situation. I don't even remember, why I am still a subscriber to you! I guess, because your reports weren't biased back then...
@RoyalWulffDry
7 жыл бұрын
They wont as they all support the Pantsuit War Criminal. Most of the sell out Democrats didnt even blink when they heard about the emails and DNC corruption...hence Vice wont touch the subject with a 100ft pole.
@michaelcrawford310
7 жыл бұрын
No way they're liberal as fuck and most likely receive advertisement funding from the DNC.
@kissfan7
7 жыл бұрын
Here's your video: Clinton did the same think as Rice and Powell did with their e-mails. Hackers broke into them. No proof of a crime was found. And nobody died. Or was that too biased for you?
Serbian pirates be like “a yo ho ho and a bottle of Rakija”
VICE only in the past few days in search of the story of Serbia, why I do not understand. Or many of the Serbs, is probably to work the VICE? However, Even if I VICE went the beautiful reportage, I think that there is a need to change its editorial focus.
I'd make sure the captain and even the ship crew had a financial stake in succesfully delivering the oil, so that they don't just sell that shit to pirates and pretend they got robbed.
Black Cat, White Cat =)
Vice is great. REAL stories. REAL field investigative journalism. CNN, Fox, MSNBC. take some fucking notes on how to do REAL news.
I am from Serbia and this is the first time that I hear about so called ''Danube Pirates''.I mean there are smugglers but term ''pirates'' is to much.This is scripted as fu*k..
Is it the specific dialect or were a few of them not speaking Serbian at all(?)
@haahahah28
4 жыл бұрын
Its all serbian
fucking right is this guy really wearing a tibia t shirt! epic!
♫"Serbian pirates we"♫
So, BASICALLY, we need to start buying steel from Russia again lol
off the record? That's some shady shit there mate.
15:37 lik pokazuje simbol velike albanije. Sram vas bilo.
@nokosnoox
5 жыл бұрын
To nije simbol velike albanije vec simbol albanske nacije. U potpunosti se slazem da je provokativno.
@namelessbob8685
5 жыл бұрын
Ukoliko si obratio paznju na taj kadar, primetio bi "grb" ili logo rep grupe "Wu Tang Clan" ciji je "pozdrav" slican kao simbol te imaginarne "velike albanije" dakle s time na umu, siguran sam da ovaj momak nije pokazao simbol imaginarne "velike albanije" vec iskazao podrsku "wu tang clan" i pozdrav fanovima te rep grupe. Ako mi ne verujes, guglaj "Wu tang clan hand gesture" i videces i sam.
@sharpshooter9720
5 жыл бұрын
@@namelessbob8685 pogledao sam i razlikuje se njegov i nihov pozdrav
@nokosnoox
5 жыл бұрын
@@namelessbob8685 Prvo je pokazao znak albanskog orla pa onda gestu wu tang klana. Moguce je da se momak zabunio pa slucajno pokazao prvi znak pri tom misleci na drugi.
Look up the youtuber "Jack Snow" and look at his playlists
@marinomani8349
7 жыл бұрын
wtf
@viralcontent6534
7 жыл бұрын
it's some guy that saves a bunch of little girl videos.
@on3lim1t
7 жыл бұрын
Well, we're all on some FBI lists right now.
@Pod-Z
7 жыл бұрын
I Didnt consent to seeing that shit!
I liked this documentary cuz i didnt have to read the subtitles
We don't have pirates on Danube, just smugglers.
wow it sounds like Russian.I could understand more than half of it!
See old fogey's, one of them Hipsters can actually change a flat tire. If just one of them can, there is some hope for the rest of them.
@stefan2serb
5 жыл бұрын
it would be the eastern euro one too hahaha
A drone would make this guys life a lot easier....
I am Galeb and for Hashish I have money!
@crnizivotinja987
5 жыл бұрын
SA HASIS MENJAM JARE
@aleksandargojkovic2500
5 жыл бұрын
@@crnizivotinja987 iam jare iam pare al za hasis neam galeba
@aleksandargojkovic2500
5 жыл бұрын
@@crnizivotinja987 kad bude plime bice i rime 😁
Danube - Sandstorm
14:33 Typo "I'l"
Cox?
sly wu tang at 15:37 lol
DIMITAR BERBATOV???
@yourenotmartin
7 жыл бұрын
lol
@BurntWifi
7 жыл бұрын
Haven't heard that name in years
its not actually pirating, they are buying the stuff. its more like smuggling or black market
dang
what language is that ? I thought it was Portuguese.....
@TheFefiiiii
7 жыл бұрын
serbian
There really is no pirating going on. Dear Vice, you used to be such an amazing outlet for non mainstream news but anymore you are just clickbait......nobody would watch this if it didnt have pirates in the title. I understand "Organized crime on the Danube" (or something closer to what the actual story represented) wont bring as many views but think of your reputation........vice used to be a decent outlet for non mainstream news, now its just clickbait articles and strippers for the hbo show.
pirates of the danube
Wait... Pirates exist in europe? I can't see any wooden ships with a Skull-flag XD
........ Same-same Cambodia but different..............
Wheres niko bellic? Haha:D
Darkest Serbian ever. I'm surprised Noone said anything about it.
@ilovemybabies9619
5 жыл бұрын
He is mixed with black
@actross89
5 жыл бұрын
He is not Serbian just born here...
Ok but what do they do with the oil
@mar4ko07
7 жыл бұрын
sell it. it's disel and lots of cars run on it. that way it's cheaper to fill tank of truck or car.
@coffelt683
7 жыл бұрын
true. And diesel is easy to sell to people who use a lot of it like construction companys and farms. I know in the US locally people buy hundreds of gallons at a time to keep on there farms, if there was a large black market here I could see that being exploited.
Serbia has pirates too? And I thought somali's were the only ones that still hijack ships
@letsgodababypotion7806
7 жыл бұрын
Other countries have pirates
@stefanilserbo2
7 жыл бұрын
Look at the end. He explains his thoughts, it's not "pirats", it's more agreements between the parts
@gokuparajoku2926
7 жыл бұрын
you havent watched the whole video, have you?
@barniespacullie3812
7 жыл бұрын
south america and mexico have in there own way pirates. southerb asian countries have pirates but there mode of operenda seems to vary from hostages, to carteling, and some time just boat jacking from anything rafts to jet skis. but when im at the public pool i tend to steal floaties from small children. thus i too live the pirate life for me.
@urbannomad9590
7 жыл бұрын
Foreign companies illegally fishing off the coast of Somalia and toxic dumping lead to so-called Somali pirates. Something your western media never showed you. Somali "pirates" are the good guys here! Talk about evil mega corporations 😒
I can't even follow this as the subs go by way too fast.
Кад ће емисија о полицији и њиховим надлежностима
eh. is this really piracy? seems tame.
kittelsbach pirates best pirates
mislim da i moja štala izgleda bolje nego zgrada lucke kapetanije
i made it 2:13 in, i deserve a trophy or a reward
Sad murija vidi snimak i zna gde im je stek
Wow, one fucking boat? Jesus....
This language sounds like Italian mixed with Russian
whys his shirt have the name of a bone on it
Greetings from The Humungus! The Lord Humungus! The Warrior of the Danube! The Ayatollah of Električna Muzika!
that rivers is in my country and it is dunav not dunab
@nadrogiranisrbin5171
Жыл бұрын
Tako se zove na engleskom