THE PROSECUTION IS OVERTHROWN
“Meta-Prifti”, re-expertise rejected
DRITAN PRIFTI: I WILL TESTIFY, BUT I HAVE NO HOPE FOR JUSTICE
The experts answer questions at the Supreme Court: We cannot say that the video is fabricated, but our margin of error is absolutely zero
By KLODIANA LALA
The Albanian experts stood by their report on the Meta-Prifti video, which they described as non-authentic. Yesterday the experts, Ardian Pollo, Ermal Beqiri and Artur Brahmani, answered the questions posed by the General Prosecutor’s Office and the defense lawyers of former deputy prime minister Ilir Meta. As in the previous report and in yesterday’s hearing, the experts said that there are many interventions in the video and that the conversation between Meta and Prifti is incomprehensible in many parts, because the level of noise and interference is very high. The prosecutors had asked the experts, since in their report they had stated that they could not prove whether the clock object of the expertise is the device with which the recording of the conversation was made. Do you think that, nevertheless, the recording device may have been installed in some clock, regardless of the fact that one hears its ticking throughout the entire time or not?...
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Why doesn’t the status quo change
Opinion of the Day
Opinion
of the Day
By KLODIAN GRADEC[*]
There are thousands of cases where splits are a lever system for raising funds in cash or political capital,” would cite American Senator Tom Coburn. ...
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Why doesn’t the
status quo change
“Let’s see money first!”
Opinion of the Day
Opinion
of the Day
By KIÇO BLUSHI
At the last meeting of the Tirana Municipality, the novice mayor Lul Basha, after every remark from the opposition, repeated the same refrain: “Let’s not get into...
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“Let’s
see money first!”
Festival winner of the 11th edition: The sentence deprived me of Eurovision
INTERVIEW/ Tonin Tërshana: How Petrit Dume saved me
Festival winner of the 11th edition:
The sentence deprived me of Eurovision
(In photo): The well-known singer Tonin Tërshana with his little daughter Donatela. Tonin Tërshana singing in one of the RTSH Festivals
“When I came from Shkodra to Tirana, I slept by the crates of a fruit-and-vegetable shop in the center, somewhere behind the bank. I covered myself with crates because I was afraid of a dog or a policeman”
In ’72 I competed with “Kur vjen pranvera” and they told us that we would go to the European Festival. Ferdinand Deda was the first to shake my hand. Since ’97 I have been living in Greece
On pages 16-17
CONSENSUS BETWEEN PD AND PS, THE COMPOSITION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IS MADE PUBLIC
REFORM, OSCE: DECISIVE STEP
CONSENSUS BETWEEN PD AND PS,
THE COMPOSITION OF THE
PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IS MADE PUBLIC
On pages 4-5
Smuggling, wiretaps lead 10 people to handcuffs
FUEL, DAMAGE 2.6 MILLION LEK
FUEL, DAMAGE
2.6 MILLION LEK
Smuggling,
wiretaps
lead 10 people
to handcuffs
On page 10
Builders: Mortgages free up to 2 billion euros
REGISTRATION
Builders:
Mortgages,
free up to
2 billion euros
On pages 8-9
Specialists: diabetes, how to prevent the disease
THE DOCTORS SPEAK
Specialists:
diabetes, how to
prevent the
disease
On page 11
Abuses in education, residents of 4 villages protest
CORRUPTION IN FIER
Abuses in
education, residents
of 4 villages
protest
On page 15
KLD, 6-hour meeting, 15 judges moved
ETLEVA DEDA LEAVES, SANDER SIMONI ARRIVES
ETLEVA DEDA LEAVES,
SANDER SIMONI ARRIVES
KLD, 6 hours
meeting,
15 judges
moved
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