A lawsuit against the President reaches the Constitutional Court Gjinushi: “Here is the law to examine my past” A lawsuit against the President reaches the Constitutional Court The files ignite another battle Gjinushi: “Here is the law to examine my past” Other parties react. PS and PAD: “We will support Gjinushi.” Laçoj to the other social democrats: “I agree with the idea, but I would think twice since it is Gjinushi” Gjinushi speaks “Here are my reasons” On page 3 President Berisha Skënder Gjinushi INTERVIEW “The Constitutional Court does not deal with the files...” Rustem Gjata speaks, the re-elected Chairman On page 3 President Berisha; Skënder Gjinushi

The 27-year-old ends up in a cell BERAT - The heavily sought-after trafficker in women Ferdinand Behmi, 27, from the Uznovë neighborhood of Berat, suspected of being at the center of the trafficking of Albanian women and of having ties to trafficking organizations inside and outside Albania, ended up yesterday at 10:00 in the cells of the . Trafficking in women: Police catch super-trafficker in Berat BERAT - The heavily sought-after trafficker in women Ferdinand Behmi, 27, from the Uznovë neighborhood of Berat, suspected of being at the center of the trafficking of Albanian women and of having ties to trafficking organizations inside and outside Albania, fell into police hands and ended up yesterday at 10:00 in the cells of the city police station. The charge against him is “deceiving his wife for the purpose of profiting.” On page 5

TIRANA - The distressing phenomenon of child abduction—the traces of which have tragically remained in their minds—was the alarm signal issued by the Albanian Helsinki Committee in a statement yesterday. - The distressing phenomenon of child abduction—the traces of which have tragically remained in their minds—was the alarm signal issued by the Albanian Helsinki Committee in a statement yesterday. On page 3

The Ministry: “This way, we are suffering heavy losses” Drivers: “Against privatization” The Ministry: “This way, we are suffering heavy losses” Buses stop for an hour Drivers: “Against privatization” TIRANA - The one-hour strike by urban bus drivers—in Tirana, Durrës, Shkodër, Berat and Elbasan—has done nothing to change the Ministry of Transport’s position on privatizing this service. Meanwhile, the Independent Union of the Urban Bus Depot has continued to insist on its protest against this proposal and to demand that the strikes be repeated: “Who guarantees us that privatization won’t leave us out on the street?” is the concern raised by Edmond Gjata, deputy chairman of the Bus Union. On page 3

Today the national team departs from Rinas Airport One thousand dollars for the victory Today the national team departs from Rinas Airport. In the Moldovan capital to defend the triumph. One thousand dollars for the victory. Today the national team lands in Kishniev. Dalipi “honorary footballer.” On page 5. Return to the cycling Tour. On page 5. Italy: Inter in the UEFA Cup. On page 6

CULTURE In Dukagjin searching for the Kanun of Lekë An expedition by an Austrian group On page 2

Sensational robbery at the archive offices TIRANA - The capital’s Municipality has “lost its seal.” Unbelievable but true: the incident took place yesterday at around 12:30, when two archive employees discovered that the Municipality’s seal was missing from a locked drawer. The word “lost” has a delicate meaning, especially when it has been replaced by “robbery.” In the end, the two archive employees, Mimoza Vllamasi and Nina Zoto, were questioned by investigators from the capital’s Police Station No. 1, along with the guard, who was released immediately after questioning. After the theft was discovered, the Municipality was closed by law-enforcement authorities until the end of working hours. For more than an hour, police surrounded the building, allowing no one to enter or leave, and physically searched all three employees inside the building, including the Municipality employees themselves. The episode began at around 12:00, when the two employees, according to what they told investigators, locked the seal in the drawer and then locked the door of the other room. Around thirty minutes later, when they returned, they found, according to their account, the door locked and the secret drawer locked, but the seal was gone. It is not the first time that such sensational thefts have occurred at the Municipality. Two years and three months earlier, in April 1993, the Tirana executive office was the target of a scandalous robbery. Just 10 metres from the Municipality secretary’s office, the salaries of the members of the Municipal Council had been stolen. The money, amounting to 200,000 lekë, was kept in an office far from the office of Tirana’s Number One. so.bal / i.la

Prosecutor’s sentencing request “Three years’ imprisonment for Hoxha” TIRANA - Three years in prison for Enver Hoxha’s son. While presenting the case and speaking to the media, Tirana Chief Prosecutor Cimi Çipkali said: “This is how the trial of Ilir Hoxha should have been conducted.” On page 5 Ilir Hoxha during the trial

After a 19-year-old student was stabbed to death “We want you to protect our lives” Berat, dramatic appeal by 300 high-school students BERAT - “We do not want mourning, we do not want tears. In the name of reason, but also of our grief, we want the maximum sentence to be imposed on the killers.” This is a heartfelt appeal, the grave words of all 300 students at the “D.Karbunara” high school in Berat, who have lost their 19-year-old friend, Klodian Mema, stabbed to death in the city centre. They have immediately appealed to the highest Albanian authorities and are asking for “something simple: justice and fairness.” For the first time, the alarm over the killings and crimes that so often fill the daily news is being sounded through the grief of students—a large group of young people who want fear and anxiety removed from their lives. “This is not the first time such a murder has happened in our city. One by one, these things have become part of our lives,” the students of Berat write. It is a disturbing statement that should make us all reflect. These young people feel at risk and want help; they want Justice; they want the state not to allow “the hands of killers who take innocent people’s lives to walk the streets again, almost proud of the deed they have committed.” The appeal made today by the young people of Berat is a human appeal, far removed from propaganda and politics: it is addressed to ministers who are parents and politicians who are parents, asking them to take care, because outside their offices a child is losing their life to a knife, a bullet is piercing a young person’s heart. “On Kledion’s empty desk today there is a photograph and bunches of flowers. As people in positions of authority, and at least as parents, work and judge so that no more desks like this are left empty in Albanian schools,” concludes the letter, signed in the trembling hand of 300 Berat students. On page 8 The city of Berat

Strike by customs agencies GJIROKASTER - The customs agencies at Kakavijë are on strike. All thirty of their employees have protested against the removal of their 10 kiosks from the customs post’s interior premises. The latest decision was made by the administration of this customs post, which justified the measure by the need to reorganize work and present the services in a more dignified manner. On page 5

Electricity thieves in court On page 5

A department for the environment will open in Tirana On page 3

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