PROTEST BY THE HOLY SYNOD: PRIESTS ARE NOT GRAVE-DESPOILERS The Kosina bone scandal angers the Church: The director insults the clergy, the government should not have given permission for filming. Edmond Budina: The film is not a challenge to religion PROTEST BY THE HOLY SYNOD: PRIESTS ARE NOT GRAVE-DESPOILERS JANULLATOS, LETTER TO BERISHA “The film ‘Ballkan Bazar’ mocks the Orthodox Church” The Kosina bone scandal angers the Church: The director insults the clergy, the government should not have given permission for filming. Edmond Budina: The film is not a challenge to religion

Former mafia boyfriend: After Anita Bitri died, I started taking drugs (In the photo) Singer Anita Bitri was found dead on 19 October 2004. (Left) One of the Albanian mobsters in the US Parid Gjoka recounts in court the clashes with rival gangs and his private life: After I lost Anita, I was devastated and completely ruined. I have thought about killing myself The story of drug trafficking and the war among Albanian groups in the US. How drug trafficking and robberies in the homes of rival dealers were carried out On pages 8-9

The Autocephalous Church of Albania is quite concerned about the film “Balkan Pazar”. In a protest letter addressed to the State Committee on Cults and, for information, to Prime Minister Berisha, the Minister of Culture and the Italian ambassador in Tirana, it calls Budina’s film offensive and defamatory. Considering that the film is extremely sarcastic, it portrays priests as desecrators of graves, traffickers in human bones and their families as immoral, the church has warned that the request for the committee on cults. It asks that “our protest be made known to the state bodies that support and financed this film full of slander; that care be taken to avoid such distortions in the future and that care be taken to implement Law 10057/29.1.2009, on the protection of sacred places of worship and their return to the Orthodox Church that created them and to which they belong”..... Continued on pages 26-27

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