RENEA handcuffs him at midnight The notorious man from Tropoja is locked up in the prison hospital Photo Hektor Pustina

INTERVIEW “What matters is that we think about how much we have helped Thaçi in his work and not invite him to a criminal investigation...” Mitrovica is not the only city that may set a precedent, because Skopje is also such a model.” On page 2

COMMENTARY Fatos Baxhaku I did not see on TV the mafioso Balluku, nor the emperor of the Albanian world of betting, Milloshi; but I did see the opportunist from Tropoja, who with his cleverness and dynamism has disarmed even the shadows of Enver. Of course not on the screen of Albanian Television, which has become ashamed of the scale of the event and the savagery of the staged terror, not on the front pages of the country's main newspapers. I saw him with the calm of a liberated man, dealing with the caprices of a mentally ill person who exaggerates his own importance. I do not know whether our silence undermines [?] or not the inner power he has to modernize this country. Is it enough that we, with this man, by letting him rule, get out of the cycle of brutal madness? Where does today's political society see itself in this ruler who laughs shamelessly and inhumanly before the camera and declares that even those who locked him in prison have escaped him? Disarmed since 1953, exiled from Europe's centers of control, tied like a faithful slave in the bodyguard of a Serbia [?], not far from Kosovo opposite, where a lision himself brought down the country on the shores of the Adriatic amid the [?] German and Italian gomazhdë, who had tears in their eyes at that performance. But no one sees the closed stage. Neither in 1997 nor yesterday. Fitos Baxhaku On page 19

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