SHIK OFFICER
THE BURNING OF THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENT, IN FOREIGN LABORATORIES
SHIK OFFICER
Isa Çopa case file, forensic expertise in Germany
Murder or suicide? German specialists will try to reconstruct the dynamics of the event based on the evidence found in the carbonized car in Currila
By KLODIANA LALA
Suicide or murder?
The mystery still continues to shroud the 24 October 2011 घटना in Durrës, where the counterintelligence officer in the Intelligence Service directorate, Isa Çopa, was found burned to ashes in his car. The conclusions of the expertise by the Institute of Forensic Medicine do not seem to have been sufficiently useful to the Durrës Prosecutor’s Office to shed light on the serious event and determine whether the SHIK employee was killed or killed himself. In a situation where many aspects of the event are unclear, the police and the prosecution have decided that the solution to the case should be sought beyond the borders of Albania. Sources from the State Police and the Durrës Prosecutor’s Office said that help has been requested from foreign experts, who have been asked for specialized opinions on several aspects of the event. The file has now gone to Germany and German experts will give...
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Rama: Nano supported the KLA, PS is not a pro-Greek party
Greek ambassador: The money in the banks is safe
(In photo): The head of the PS, Edi Rama, and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi. The Greek Ambassador to Tirana, Nikolas Pazios
The chairman of the PS speaks to Kosovo media: The Liberation Army was attacked as Marxist and as an armed movement by the press of the Democratic Party
Nikolaos Pazios: The noise made against the census was incomprehensible. In the “Omonia” square there are no longer any Albanians.
The maritime pact, an issue to be resolved
On pages 2-3
Bode: The crisis, not a single euro has left Albania
MINISTER: IN 2012, THE RISKS WILL INCREASE
On page 8
GAZMEND OKETA: I am not the only rebel in the Democratic Party, I count Topi as a friend
INTERVIEW/ I VOTE ‘PRO’ LESKAJ
On page 5
Has politics entered normality?
Opinion of the Day
By ILIR DHIMA
After the European Commission’s refusal for the second year in a row to grant Albania official candidate-country status for the EU, at first it seems that politics...
Has politics entered normality?
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Apollon Baçe: The icons that are stolen should be protected by the Church itself
THE HEAD OF MONUMENTS SPEAKS
On page 24
He beat up his cousin’s wives, the abuser is kept in jail
AFTER THE APPEAL FOR THE USA
On page 20
School principal kills himself while hunting
GJIROKASTER
On page 14
Ronela Hajati: I did not have a boyfriend at school
“HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS”
Supplement
Arben Puto: The massacre of 4 February, with 86 victims
THE FAMOUS HISTORIAN COMMENTS ON DOCUMENTS
On page 6