CHOLES TRIAL / The first witness against the powerful man from Vlora: He killed my son The woman from Vlora who shoots Zani Chaos in the courtroom, the judges remain silent To burn the quilt over a flea Andi Bejtja is portraying him as a Christ, who

Nano returns to politics PS should show me its pockets The Socialist Party chairman has taken the reins of the party back into his hands after a long absence due to health problems, tasking the Socialist secretaries, upon setting foot in Albania, with preparing reports on the state of the PS, organizationally and financially, and on the political situation in the country. And the Socialist chairman’s full return to active political life cannot happen later than mid-January, when the PS KPD will convene. On page 3 FROM VLORA Two children searching for their mother “Mother broke the wall of the house and we ran away to hide. Then she left with her boyfriend.” These were the words of a 12-year-old girl, Sonila from Vlora, who together with her grandmother reported to the police the disappearance of her brother and sister... On page 18 SABRI GODO “Majko should not resign” Godo opposes Prime Minister Majko’s resignation. “The government cannot resign just because a group of individuals wants it to,” said yesterday the chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Commission and one of the leading figures of the right-wing opposition. On page 2

Andi Bejtja “We can trample even on the carpet bearing the national flag, and on the portrait of Skënderbeu...” These were some of the words of RTSH director Ardian Klosi on the first night of the Festival, and he was shameless enough to repeat them again last night on the news, in a report edited by him without the slightest professionalism. In fact, anyone listening to this perversely intellectualist speech might think they were in some rock or heavy-metal club in Munich, where young people, crushed by the lack of prospects in life, experiment with music, insult heroes, or prick their bodies with needles. The Festival stage itself gives you that impression, with its wrecked cars and newspapers, which Klosi seems to reach a state of ecstasy over whenever he steps on them. Klosi and the other organizers forget that the Song Festival is a national festival, not an experimental festival where the deficient can indulge their complexes. Klosi in particular, as head of RTSH, must not forget that all Albanians pay taxes for this institution, and Albanians do not want to trample on the national flag or the portrait of Skënderbeu. Unfortunately, Klosi is treating RTSH as if it were his own kiosk, portraying himself as a Christ who not only keeps the kiosk’s accounts, but also serves, cleans the toilets, and even insults the customers. Perhaps it is difficult to find, in Albania’s history, an individual who in such a short time has made so many enemies, sometimes through his foolishness, sometimes through childish perversity, and sometimes through academic perversity. But unfortunately, Klosi’s enemies automatically become enemies of the state authorities who appointed him, and ultimately enemies of the current government. Is it worth burning the whole quilt over a flea? Is it worth making the Government an enemy of the entire print press because Klosi likes to trample on journalists’ names? The time has come for the state authorities to reduce their artificially inflated number of enemies, since they have quite enough even without them. The time has come for someone to convince Klosi that a state representative cannot so casually trample on the symbols of Albanians—the national flag, the portrait of Skënderbeu, or even the names of journalists... And finally, dear Klosi, close your eyes and dream that you are organizing the German Song Festival (although that will never happen). Do you think you could so easily trample on the German flag, the portrait of William Tell, or German newspapers?