Masked men threaten the witness who saw Azem Hajdari’s murder with his own eyes

Two Tirana judges implicated in the events of September 14 have disappeared . Masked men threaten the witness who saw Azem Hajdari’s murder with his own eyes. The President is crazy. Psychologists speak. His parents committed suicide. Page 11

Nano’s card risks bringing down the

… risks bringing down Majko

. Nano reappears as a careful and shrewd calculator. Yesterday he warned that, following the “struggle for existence” that has erupted in the SP, he is capable of using the left’s main weapon: criticizing policy in the name of morality and the “mandate.” The former prime minister barishqoz [?] explained to journalists that he is a person with a mandate and that, “like the Eskimos, he will let the bottle (of criticism) fall.” Nano explains that he commands a European audience for his principles, implying that he is being fought by a senior conservative official. Although the day before, the Socialist leader lost support for his version of the law and the budget, provoking surprise among the public, the ousted prime minister astonishingly sees this himself as a European reaction within the governing political spectrum, which

RP protest: Dismiss Ardian Klosi

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- I found where my money can stay safe.

Inside:

A pyramid scheme involving study grants; search announced for the swindler. The March unrest: Local prosecutor’s offices bring forward new facts. A bar is blown up; the windows of Berisha’s office are smashed. Page 2. The roof caves in on students; bricks instead of lectures. 50,000 Albanians may also obtain Italian citizenship. Page 6. The “fashion” of kidnapping foreigners spreads; a German businessman is kidnapped. Macabre incident in Grabian: a man is torn to pieces. Property dispute strikes; brother wounds brother. Italy: network exploiting Albanian girls uncovered; Romanian arrested. Page 7. The truck is impounded; the Prosecutor’s Office sends the cigarettes to Lunder. Bufi: Here is how we will sell the properties. Pages 8–9

KOSOVO

• Serbs massacre children; five Albanians brutally killed at the border • OSCE under the protection of the KLA • Russia sides with the Serbs Page 11

POLITICS

The co-chair of the Constitutional Commission, Sabri Godo, speaks to “Republika”: My reservations about the Constitution DP: Do not vote against the Constitution Pages 3–5

Nano tells journalists Eskimo jokes Dritëro Agolli distances himself from Servet Pëllumbi Page 4 The figure of Azem Hajdari is commemorated EC: The Constitution, not a political passport PR: Kavaja belongs to the Right Page 5