Two spouses from Tirana arrested Attack on the home of the President of the Court of Cassation Flames at Brozi’s door Revenge is suspected following a court case EDMOND LAÇI TIRANE — Attack on the private residence of the President of the Court of Cassation, Zef Brozi. A bottle of gasoline in one of the matches [?] was thrown onto the house’s fire [?] for several seconds and, as witnesses attest, even the interior part of the senior official’s residence was [?]. Brozi’s own intervention — since no one else was in his home at the time — meant the attack ended with more mystery than damage. Just a few hours after the attempts [?], the investigators became convinced that they had clarified the matter: the revenge appeared to be in the hands of a wanted [?] Gjinojeva [?] and her husband, Lefter Kushe. Both were detained by officers of Police Station 1 and subsequently sent to Tirana Prison, together with their criminal case. It was 2:30 p.m. on the day of ... ☐ The previous day, another judge had been attacked … Tuesday, when Brozi’s neighbors in a five-storey apartment building in the southeastern outskirts of the capital were the first to see flames above his door. A day earlier, a quarrel between Gjinovefë Kuesh [?] and the Vice-President of the Court of Cassation had dispelled the investigators’ doubts. It also emerged that the Kushe family had been involved in a court dispute at the institution headed by Brozi, a conflict that had by then taken on truly dangerous proportions. In the “Kushe” file, perhaps not by chance, investigators also included another anonymous threat that had arrived at Brozi’s address just a few days earlier. Thus, perhaps, this alone was enough for the Prosecutor’s Office on Friday to order the arrest of the Kushe spouses: the wife, accused of carrying out the attack, and her husband, accused of collaborating with her. But the investigation has only just begun, and only its conclusion can shed full light on the attack of 18 October ’94. The attack on Brozi is the second against the homes of senior Albanian officials. In March of the previous year, the home of former Health Minister — now Secretary-General of the PD — Tritan Shehu had been damaged by flames from an incendiary substance thrown beneath the door. Then, too, it was the neighbors who saved everything, although the fire remained mysterious and without an identified perpetrator.

TIRANE — Muharrem Sako and Gjergji Toto have been charged with thousands of euros and dollars left in France since March 1991, sent at the time to buy tear-gas grenades for the former Ministry of Internal Affairs. The defendants will repay $222,000 The tear-gas grenade trial: ordered to pay Two years in prison each for Sako and Toto TIRANE — Thousands of euros and dollars that had remained in France since March 1991, sent at the time to purchase tear-gas grenades for the former Ministry of Internal Affairs, have been charged to Muharrem Sako and Gjergji Toto. This was the ruling handed down yesterday by a Tirana court — composed of military judges — which finally sentenced to two years in prison the former Director of the Economic Directorate at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the former Head of the Technical Department at the “Teknoimport” Foreign Trade Enterprise. After 13 months in Tirana Prison, “abuse of office” — the charge on which Sako and Toto were convicted — has sent them back to their former cells, this time also burdened with the sum of $222,375, which they must repay. The process of recovering the dollars, which three years ago had been earmarked to buy hundreds of tear-gas grenades for the emergency needs of the former Ministry of Internal Affairs, has thus taken another turn. What remains is to achieve what was revealed on the first day of the trial — the possibility that the French traders might compensate these sums with other goods — the only current hope for Sako and Toto, at least to escape the “penalty” of $222,375. Sako and Toto had contested this penalty throughout the proceedings, denying the charges against them. In any case, the defence lawyers’ team — immediately after the Tirana Military Court’s ruling — told Gazeta Shqiptare that it would exercise its right to appeal to the Court of Appeal. The justice handed down the day before yesterday will thus once again be brought before the judges. (Ed. La) Albanian Helsinki Committee «The Omonia trial must be held again» TIRANE — While it seemed that the case of the five members of “Omonia” was fading into silence, the Albanian Helsinki Committee (KSHH) has also made a statement. In a declaration issued on Friday by the organization’s centre activists in Tirana, the Court of Cassation was asked, “as the supreme instance,” to hear the case once again. According to KSHH, the procedure for convicting the members of the minority had “procedural irregularities during the investigation phase and during the examination of the court hearings.” Among these, KSHH lists the arrest of five people “without an arrest warrant issued by the competent authority,” searches of offices and confiscations without documentation and without drawing up the relevant records, the late appointment of lawyers for the detainees, and pressure “which, according to the statements of the convicted persons, was exerted during the investigation.” The declaration also mentions observations made by various foreign observers about how the trial proceeded, citing a representative of the CSCE office, the Danish Helsinki Committee and the American Bar Association. (b.h.)

Union-ministry agreement Work in hospitals: more money, but also obligations TIRANE — From now on, a collective agreement will determine the employment relationships, obligations and rights of healthcare workers. The independent unions — which, according to their chairman Agron Gjana, represent 23,000 workers in this sector — have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health, which came into force just a few days ago. “Signing this act,” Gina tells Gazeta Shqiptare, “is one of the most important achievements of the trade unionists.” All the regulations governing employment in this field, including the private sector, are clearly set out. Thus, it is specified that working hours will not exceed 40 hours per week and that working time will be established by an internal agreement between employees and the institution’s managers. According to representatives of this union, improvements to some aspects of the pay system may be considered another achievement. “The hardship allowance will increase, especially for exposure to infections and the various substances people work with,” Gina explains, “and a 30 percent increase is provided for this. An additional allowance will also be made for ... third — 20 percent

A night with the couple around town

A tragedy is avoided DURRËS — The adventure of 26 undocumented Albanians who set off from Vlora by speedboat toward the Italian coast ended without becoming another tragedy. DURRËS — The adventure of 26 undocumented Albanians who had set off from Vlora by speedboat for the Italian coast ended without becoming another tragedy. Spotted by Italian Coast Guard forces as they tried to land on the Apulian coast near Bari, the Vlora boat owners — N. C. and S. Xh. — decided to turn back to escape the Italians’ pursuit. During this attempt, they lost their bearings and were left in the middle of the sea, unsure which direction to take. Fortunately, an Albanian warship found them 14 miles from the Seman roadstead [?] and escorted them to the port of Durrës. While the two speedboat owners escaped almost miraculously, one of their colleagues is in Italy facing a charge of “intentional homicide.” According to Italian prosecutors, he — whose name has not yet been made public — threw two Kurdish children into the sea after their parents had been afraid to disembark because of the huge waves. Gë. To.

Gjinushi speaks at a conference TIRANË — “The Social Democrats will vote against the draft constitution.” PSD Chairman Skënder Gjinushi put the Party’s National Council decision up for discussion at the National Conference that began in Tirana on Friday. Gjinushi too — like Godo of the PR a few days earlier — expressed sharp criticism of the coalition in which his party has participated since the 1992 elections. “The coalition with the PD is fictitious,” Gjinushi said, citing privatization, the arbitrariness of administrative reform and corruption among the main disagreements with its allies. With the signing of the collective agreement, the unions will also broaden their role in participating in the management of the enterprise. The employer is obliged to inform the union representative about economic and financial data, as well as how these are distributed. So now employees will have not only obligations, but also more rights — and even more money. (Ar. Me.)

Dyl Huqi in Tirana in front of Skënderbej Square ARMAND MERO TIRANA — A gunshot, followed by a despairing whimper, breaks the silence of the capital’s night. An elderly man looks back toward the house and, seemingly indifferent, turns his back on the first victim of that evening. Dyl Huqi, 65, has begun his usual work as soon as daylight fades: hunting stray dogs that now roam freely around Tirana and, by order of the Municipality, must be eliminated. And he is the one who will do it—Dylli, the dog catcher. Unusual work, but to him it is just like any other job. For 20 years he has done nothing else: every night in summer he goes from one end of the city to the other, chasing dogs. And it is precisely for this, he says, that he is retired in his hometown, where very few have taken up this trade. The Municipality needs to make it clear that the dogs are not to be left alone. “We have to do this thing here” ...

ELBASAN — A mother’s mistake nearly had extremely tragic consequences. A one-and-a-half-year-old child from the 27 Nëntori neighborhood in Elbasan was rushed to hospital in serious condition. The child was suffering from a common skin condition, for which the doctor had recommended applying an ointment at night. But instead of applying it to the child, the mother gave it to the child by mouth, and the child’s condition continued to worsen. (Me.Ki.)

. A cap on his head, a cigarette that seems to be hanging from his lips at every moment, and a sad look as he expresses the last flickers of a joy, another one he has just wished for. But if you ask him about his work, Pylli answers and begins to tell you passionately about nights and nights spent outside, about dozens and dozens of dogs killed. “Once I even shot a dog that had bitten puppies,” says Dyll. “I didn’t kill the little ones because they would have died on their own later. But now there are so many more. It’s been 5 years since anyone did this job.” And so his story continues, the story of a man whose nights are never different from those spent hunting dogs that roam around. Dylli pauses for a moment. He takes his time, lights a cigarette and says: “Listen, I know the job and you can see it. I would never do this job if I had another choice. I can’t live on my pension alone. To make ends meet on the 3,600 lekë a month I receive is impossible; I have to turn around and go farther afield. I can tell you that the dog needs you every hour. You’ll see Dyll at home, where his wife is waiting for him, and be surprised ...”

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