THE BURNING OF THE COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENT, IN FOREIGN LABORATORIES SHIK OFFICER Isa Çopa case file, expert analysis 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 event in Durrës, where the counter-intelligence officer at the Information Service directorate, Isa Çopa, was found charred in his car. The forensic conclusions of the Institute of Forensic Medicine do not seem to have helped the Durrës Prosecutor’s Office sufficiently to shed light on the serious event and determine whether the SHIK employee was murdered 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 must be sought beyond Albania’s borders. 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 provide... Continues on page 11

Greek ambassador: The money in the banks is safe (In the photo): PS leader Edi Rama and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi. Greece’s ambassador in Tirana, Nikolas Pazios The leader of the PS speaks to the Kosovo media: The Liberation Army was targeted as Marxist and an armed movement by the Democratic Party press Nikolaos Pazios: The noise made against the census was incomprehensible. There are no longer any Albanians in “Omonia” square. The maritime pact, an issue to be resolved On pages 2-3

INTERVIEW/ I VOTE “FOR” LESKAJ On page 5

HEAD OF MONUMENTS SPEAKS On page 24

MINISTER: IN 2012, RISKS WILL INCREASE On page 8

Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA After the refusal to grant a visit from the European Commission to Albania the official status of candidate country for the EU, at first it seems that politics... Has politics entered normality? Continues on page 25

AFTER THE APPEAL FOR THE USA On page 20

GJIROKASTER On page 14

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THE WELL-KNOWN HISTORIAN COMMENTS ON THE DOCUMENTS On page 6