IN BALLSH, WHERE THE FAMILY OF THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT ALBANIAN IN GREECE LIVES “ALKET RIZAI ASKED ME FOR AN ALBANIAN FLAG IN PRISON” Donika Rizai, the mother of the man convicted in Greece who escaped twice from the high-security prison by helicopter, speaks: I met my son after 10 years (In the photo): Alket Rizai, his mother Donika On pages 6-7

HANDCUFFS FOR THE AUTHOR, THE VICTIM’S FATHER SPEAKS On page 8

Yesterday in “Financial Times” By a hair’s breadth, the Greeks once again escaped bankruptcy. In fact, the team of experts from the so-called troika of the European Central Bank (ECB),... EDITORIAL Greece keeps Europe in suspense Continues on page 30

Opinion of the Day By DRITAN HILA A few days ago, on a television program, the managers of Tirana’s water utility were boasting about how the abusers were running rampant, and how this sector was functioning. ... When trouble comes home to roost Continues on page 31

POLEMIC: Does the hero have genetic descendants? After the publication of the genealogical tree, the historian reacts Kristo Frashëri: They are misusing it, Skanderbeg had no daughters... After the publication of the family genealogical tree, the historian reacts By KRISTO FRASHERI It is completely natural that when an amateur of history, I emphasize amateur and not a genuine historian, comes across some inauthentic historical act that the line of earlier historians had not taken into account, he thinks he has discovered America. This is happening too with the so-called genealogical tree... On pages 10-11

MILOSAO/ The last interview, the first mass after ’90 and the arrest The cleric: Religion brought democracy; in ’90 Ramiz Alia was killing every day By ADMIRINA PEÇI My great exhilarations and disappointments, all those powerful mental and emotional surges and hesitations that have periodically accompanied me up to now as I am telling this, seem to me to be the accumulation of revolt, the tide and ebb of those various stifled day-nights in the From those first seven years But what were those first seven years of Virion Graçi’s life like? His world was divided into two parts, like the two sides of a medal. Day and night. In each, a world of its own. In one, joy and cheer, beautiful memories and free feelings, and in the other fear, mystery, voices, shadows, knocks at the door. In this day-night, writer Virion Graçi was formed, on the basis of memories, in that small village near Gjirokastra, which disappeared one day without leaving a trace... Supplement

KANTRIMEN SPEAKS “The 8 May elections were better than those of 2009” On pages 2-3

NEW EXPECTATIONS Here is the list of the 12 directors who resigned at the Municipality On page 5

ALARM Tufina Cemetery, no more places for the deceased On page 12

Writer SULEJMAN KRASNIQI dies. Homages are held today at the National Historical Museum from 12:00 to 14:00