Ngjela gets to work The Presidency under investigation for the events of March What was Berisha’s role, and that of his people? Presidency headquarters TIRANA - The Presidency is under investigation by the “Ngjela” commission. For the first time, parliamentarians have appointed [??] to uncover the truth about March; they will open the doors of the place most talked about during the unrest. Ngjela has answered positively to the question of an investigation into the Presidency, but explains that for now there is a shortage of personnel and experts, so this will be done later. On page 2

The attack rocks Gjirokastër; a woman is injured TNT against the old house. Police have been searching for three people since last night GJIROKASTËR - Enver Hoxha’s house has been reduced to rubble. An as-yet-undetermined quantity of TNT brought down the front section of the museum house. The roofs of neighboring houses were also destroyed, while a woman was admitted to hospital. The terrible blast shook the entire city and was heard in nearby villages. The motive remains a mystery, while police have announced a search for three suspects. “We felt as if we had flown into the air” — these are the words of a neighbor of the dictator’s former house. It was 20:20 yesterday evening when the entire stone city was shaken by the blast of the TNT. Although people are usually indoors at this hour, the noise and the explosion caused the area around the ethnographic museum to fill with people. The damage is clearly visible: the museum house, which had served this purpose for four decades, has been reduced to rubble. The entire façade has fallen, along with the stairs. Neighboring roofs were also victims of the explosion. Five of them were completely destroyed, while not a single pane of glass was left intact within a radius of at least one kilometer. A woman, a neighbor of the house, was slightly injured. Sabrije Hoxha was rushed to hospital and returned home after treatment. Police immediately arrived at the scene and, after cordoning off the area, removed all “unwanted” people. The police chief himself said last night that there were several lines of inquiry and that everything would become clear with the arrival of the experts. After initial questioning of people around the site — the house has been an ethnographic museum for years — it emerged that three people had applied pressure at midday. They are believed to have returned in the evening and planted the TNT. A search has been announced for them, but their names are not being made public because of the investigation. Residents of the surrounding area swear that they had never heard an explosion like this, although explosions were frequent during the months of unrest. In fact, a similar blast had destroyed a kiosk in recent days, while a fire had nearly brought down a three-story house in “Çerçiz Topulli” Square. Most people think this was a political attack, especially since Communists have begun appearing openly in the city. In any case, everything is expected to be clarified after the police investigation. p.re. Enver Hoxha’s house in Gjirokastër before the attack

The first case-file materials are being gathered TIRANA - Investigations begin into the organizers of the tragic voyage of “Otranto 1”. “The first materials have arrived and we are at the stage of verifying them,” says Agim Tirana, Director General of Investigations,

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THE PRESS CONFERENCE IS BOYCOTTED TIRANA - The Association of Creditors who put their money into pyramid schemes, impatient to get their money back, get angry with the journalists and insult them. Their press conference is not about “Returning the money deposited in pyramid schemes.” Mistrat Sahiti, a geography teacher who, as he himself has said, did not put a single lek into any of the companies, accompanied by Gëzim Hoxha, res-

[The headline is cut off at the upper edge.] “Otranto 1”. “We have received the first materials and are in the process Thus, for the first time, an effort is being made to shed light on an extremely tragic event for the people of Vlorë. Who took the ship, and who organized the voyage? How much money did the people pay, and to whom? Who was involved in these dealings? Was it really a spontaneous initiative, or did someone want to make their own profits? “People have brought information, but they are afraid—and rightly so—to write down their names,” says Tirana. There are specific names in all the materials, but for now they are only at the verification stage. On page 2 Katër i Radës

TIRANA - has stated that he would not consider the post he was given to be a bone, while Musa Ulqini was surprised by Nano’s proposal. For the former head of the Socialists in the capital, however, his heavy workload has made it necessary for him to leave the post. But that is not what they think in the PS. This is another move by the chairman to lead the PS into a minority ahead of its major Conference. On page 3

TIRANA - The Association of Cred-itors who have put their money into pyramid schemes, impatient to get the money back, get angry with journalists and insult them. Their press conference did not turn only into an attack against the Government, which is not keeping its promise to return the money, but also against journalists, who they claimed were to blame in this matter. Print and radio journalists, as well as those from many private outlets, boycotted the conference, which they had called specifically to attract media attention. The chairman of the Association “For the return of who, as he himself has stated, did not put a single lek into a company, accompanied by Gëzim Hoxha, the representative of VEFA’s creditors, who has no legal document authorizing him to represent them, as well as the association’s deputy chairman, Elezi, forgot the rules of etiquette and attributed their disagreements to the journalists. In any case, if the association views the media with distrust, it is free to find its own ways of attracting the Government’s attention.

LAÇ - They went to hear the songs of the Shkodër group “Mister,” but in the hall they found it more “entertaining” to clap their hands and shout “Party-Enver.” It happened at the Palace of Culture in Laç on Saturday, when the new rock music group “Mister” had come to give a concert. To their misfortune, the sound system was not working and the show was postponed by an hour, while people kept arriving and filling the hall of the Palace of Culture. The police were powerless to stop the flood of people without tickets, but even more powerless to restore order in the hall and control the young people’s screams; it was impossible to tell whether they had really come to watch the show or to shout. The charming duo tried to sing, but without success, since nobody intended to listen to them. The mood of the well-known Nexho went even worse: for the first time, he found himself surrounded by the audience. As soon as he came into the hall, the whistles and shouts did not give him the chance to tell even one joke. The saddest person throughout this event was the new director of the Laç Palace of Culture, Ruzhdi Kera, who had planned to bring comedians from Tirana, including Ardit Gjebrea. After the show, he said that he could do nothing with this audience, since even the police themselves could do nothing.

The dictator “comes” to Rrajcë: they sing about him at a wedding LIBRAZHD - Stalin’s song is sung at a wedding in the village of Rrajcë in Librazhd. The Russian dictator has returned as a character in Albania, but no longer in Tirana. A village in southeastern Albania, on the border with Macedonia, has taken it upon itself to become known not for its murdered emissaries, but for a song about Stalin. H. Hana had a legitimate reason to celebrate on Sunday and had tried by every means to please his friends and in-laws. At the height of the merrymaking, after endless toasts and wishes of good health to everyone in turn, he did the most unexpected thing, leaving everyone stunned. The wedding guests, and especially the in-laws, were astonished when the host chose “Oh Stalin, you are alive...” instead of a welcoming song. For a moment they were taken aback, but then they were obliged to sing along. At the end of the song, everyone stood up and clinked glasses, offering toasts to the Communist Party, which has in fact established its cells in the village. According to a relative of Hana, none of the wedding guests objected to the song being sung for the symbolic figure of the communist dictatorship. Nevertheless, the incident was talked about for a long time in the country’s largest village, with eight thousand inhabitants. It seems nostalgia for the dictatorship is very tangible among veterans. It appears more pronounced in the villages. On October 16 in Librazhd, villagers erected Enver Hoxha’s statue again. Not many days passed before wedding guests in Rrajcë, Librazhd, summoned tradition in place of traditional songs, singing hymns to dictators. Rekhep Polisi The dictator’s monuments, dismantled

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Fear and teeth in one of the oldest neighborhoods of the museum city