TIRANË, BANK DIRECTOR TAKES 2 OF HIS CHILDREN HOSTAGE
POLICE ON ALERT, MOTIVES A MYSTERY: HE IS DEPRESSED, SAYS “I’LL KILL MYSELF IF YOU GO INSIDE”
Artan Kadria made a scene at his home. At 4:00 p.m. he asked his wife not to go outside. Residents: He is a quiet guy, something must have happened at the bank. The children, one 16 years old and the other in first grade
By REZARTA DELISULA
Artan Kadria, one of the directors of a major bank in Tirana, has taken his family hostage, his wife, two children, his wife, his mother and father, for reasons still unknown. The incident happened last night on Tefta Tashko Street, just as ATSH’s slope begins in an old five-story building. A resident of that neighborhood for years, after getting married he moved with his wife and children into one of his own apartments, and practically, his parents lived there. From the neighbors we learn that yesterday...
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Chinese Serbia
Opinion of the Day
By PETRIT HALITI
The issue of Serbia boycotting in Oslo the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for the Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo, may...
Chinese Serbia
Continued on page 21
Row in the minority, Dule clashes with the minister, residents drive Bollano away
Aliko Commune, four people killed in 1990 are commemorated
The commune’s residents remove from the memorial the wreaths placed by Dule and Bollano. Kosta Koçi, son of the martyr Thanas Koçi: We’ve heard enough from you, we don’t need the flowers. Vangjel Dule: Spiro Ksera started the quarrel. Widespread pressure from Berisha. The minister should not have spoken at all during the ceremony. The minority minister remains silent
In photo: Residents of Aliko opposing the presence of Bollano and Dule at yesterday’s commemoration (left) Vangjel Dule in front of the memorial
The commune’s residents remove from the memorial the wreaths placed by Dule and Bollano.
Kosta Koçi, son of the martyr Thanas Koçi: We’ve heard enough from you, we don’t need the flowers
Vangjel Dule: Spiro Ksera started the quarrel. Widespread pressure from Berisha. The minister should not have spoken at all during the ceremony. The minority minister remains silent
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Ilir Meta: In Shkodër until the end, we have no emergency damage
Floods / The deputy prime minister comments on the situation
Schools reopen. Yesterday a 21-year-old woman gave birth to a boy in the middle of the water in Velipojë
From our correspondent in Shkodër, ANILA BASHA
Shkodër looks like a dead city. At the city entrance, there is no police officer to tell you that you should not go in there. After all, everyone knows it. We entered. An unusual situation at the entrance, right on the bridge that leads toward Montenegro. Yes, I have seen it in newspaper photos, on television reports, but when you experience it yourself, panic sets in, the feeling of mourning, there where the lake has melted and become one with the road. You are seized by dread, but also by an inner feeling that says: it can’t be, but...
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A grand welcome for Kadare in May '92 after political asylum
Photo section / The burning of bar “Sahati”
On page 22
Thaçi regains power, Albin Kurti in third place
Early elections
On page 18
Calculations behind the scenes
Yesterday in the newspaper “Express”
By FATON RAÇI
IDK was convinced it would win the elections. Meanwhile, its leader, Isa Mustafa, would agree to become the country’s prime minister, if...
Calculations behind the scenes
Continued on page 20
Floods, doctors have 3,000 lek withheld from their salary
Instruction from ISKSH
On page 14
Release of Astrit Bushi, police against the Court
It is requested by Italy-Spain
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