Brother: He died before my eyes, I saw the perpetrators THEY STOLE 2.5 MILLION LEK. EXPERT REPORT: DIED FROM HEMORRHAGE Haxhi Kotarja tells ‘GSH’: They were dressed in black, like those in swimming pools. They put the Kalashnikov to my head. Fatmiri fired first with a hunting rifle By KLODIANA HAXHIAJ A serious घटना shook the city of Durrës yesterday. In the beach area near the Railway a currency exchanger was shot dead with an automatic weapon by two robbers, who took the amount of 25 million old lekë. According to official sources from the Durrës District Police Directorate, Fatmir Kotarja, 46, was returning home together with his brother, both currency exchangers, when two masked and armed men ambushed them and demanded the money. While the 46-year-old refused to hand over the money, he was shot in the leg with an automatic weapon by one of the robbers. The robbers then fled the scene on a motorcycle. It was the victim’s brother who called the ambulance and the police. The 46-year-old died on the way to the hospital. According to the forensic medical examination, the cause of Fatmir Kotarja’s death was hemorrhage... Continues on page 9

PPSHR leader: Let me be retried, they were condemned by those who did not love the party (In photo): PPSHR leader Marko Dajti and Enver’s son, Ilir Hoxha. The head of the party of former political persecuted people “Rruga e Lirisë”, Kurt Kola PS leader, Edi Rama: The wind is blowing to the left. Government: Compensation, 70 million lekë for former persecuted persons, within the year, the second and third installment By DARINA TANUSHI Communists and former political prisoners have this time joined the Socialist Party in a coalition to come to power on 23 June. Putting aside old grudges, they have joined... On pages 2-3

DOSSIER BY FATOS VELIU On pages 14-15

Opinion of the Day By SHABAN MURATI Russia organized the largest military-naval maneuvers in its entire post-communist history in the Mediterranean Sea on 19-29 January ... Russia’s geopolitical comeback in the Mediterranean Continues on page 21

STATE PROTOCOL PHOTOGRAPHER On pages 10-11

Večernje novosti’ SERBIAN ACADEMICS Albanians will lag behind until the end On page 7

TRIAL BLOCKED On page 8

LDP CONGRESS On page 3

INTERVIEW On page 16

77TH ANNIVERSARY OF ISMAIL KADARESE On pages 18-19