2 YEARS SINCE THE CRIME / KRISTINA: MY SON’S EXECUTION WAS PAID FOR FROM SPAIN • “We were told that the bank’s cameras at the crime scene did not record because they had a malfunction that day” • “Franci had no conflicts, he wasn’t guarded. The prosecutor coldly told us: Go to the police” FRANC KONOMI’S MOTHER “The truth about the murder of Gaz Muça” • “We were told that the bank’s cameras at the crime scene did not record because they had a malfunction that day” • “Franci had no conflicts, he wasn’t guarded. The prosecutor coldly told us: Go to the police” By THIMI SAMARXHIU The dumbbells and weights, The gray ones he trained with every day, are still there. Covered in dust. Untouched for two years. “No one can lift them with one hand, as Franci did,” his 71-year-old mother tells us. We are in Franc Konomi’s house,... Continues on pages 8-9 (In the photo): The car in which Franc Konomi was killed. The dumbbells and weights with which Franc Konomi trained in his home. Konomi in Greece

Thaçi shakes hands with Tadić On pages 2, 4

Yesterday in “New York Times” Yesterday in “New York Times” EDITORIAL Pavle Mirov and his partner, Daniela, nervously check their email every 15 minutes, hopeless for economic salvation, ... The sale of organs, a phenomenon in Serbia Continues on page 16

Opinion of the Day Opinion of the Day By ALFRED CAKO Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Albania once again spoke for the umpteenth time about the need to rewrite the modern history of Albanians, not to see it ... History, the prime minister and Britain Continues on pages 14-15

FULL ACCOUNT Girl: Dad killed mom, was having sex with another woman in front of us On page 6

MALLAKASTER Conflict over 20 meters of land, father of 3 children killed On page 12

COUPLE IN HANDCUFFS Steals from her mother 100 million lek, gives it to her lover On page 11

EKREM SPAHIU Defense: Demilitarization will be completed within next year On page 4

REACTION ‘Prengi’ dispute, bailiffs: We want justice for our colleague On page 6

MOSAICO Analysis by researcher Gëzim Qendro on Spiro Xega’s 1930 painting Matraku, the brigand who was respected as a hero Creativity / Henry Troyat recounts Godunov, Manuel Rohas: A glass of milk Show me an angel that praises me so I can paint it, wrote Gustav Courbet in his 1855 Manifesto, defining re- alism in art as a will to present only the opti- cal reality through artistic language, based entirely on a scrupulous examination By Dr. GËZIM QENDRO of real facts without adding or taking anything away. Realist painting, according to Courbet, is a reflection of life, because through the presentation of facts and the choice of subjects it seeks to produce an “ef- fect of the real,” a social reality placed within clear temporal and topological boundaries. Painting, in his view, is an essentially concrete art that must present only visible real objects and human rela- tions in all... Supplement