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Europe's biggest black market, a labyrinth of metal containers in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, is doing a roaring trade in counterfeit merchandise related to the European football championship. UEFA, which is organizing the tournament, is powerless to stop it - the dealers have influential allies.

 The products Tayo Abraham has on sale today made the same voyage as the
Nigerian trader did five years ago. They came over the Black Sea. Five
years ago, Abraham, 28, left his wife back in Africa and headed to
Europe, the distant land of promise. He ended up on its outer edge,
here, in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa.

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