Francesca Albanese

But this is not just in the U.S.

This is everywhere because the banking system of the US reaches everywhere, including in the part of the world I come from.

I've not been able to open a bank account in Italy or in any other European countries where I've tried.

No, but all the more.

I mean, I've not been able to benefit from my health insurance because I'm sanctioned or...

you know, I have property in the US was been frozen because we used to live there.

So we decided eventually after so many years of work to purchase the apartment.

It's a small apartment, but this is the place where I gave birth to my first child.

And she's American educated.

She's 13 and she's been going to throughout the US education system.

And she's always said that she wants to go to study in the US.

So this has not impacted me only.

It has impacted my family and not just because of the freezing of my assets and because I'm no longer economically independent.

I have the same degree of independence that I had when I was a young child.

Someone needs to take care of me, which is absolutely embarrassing and humiliating.

No, I need to borrow money.

I need to borrow money.

I cannot access my earnings.

They're blocked in so many places.

The US sanctions operate in this way.