Brother: The gun is like those used by SHIK The execution of Bujar Barçi, the family: he was shot by the former bodyguard of a former minister In the attack on the film producer, the police arrested Halit Shahini two days ago. His prior conviction: the perpetrator was sentenced to 14 months in prison for murder. Kujtim Çashku: A contribution to film

By AURORA KOROMANI He killed my brother in cold blood. He planned everything.” This is how the brother of the Albanian film producer, who was killed two months ago in the capital, begins the conversation. Agim Barçi recounts for “Gazeta Shqiptare” the moment they informed him about his brother’s wounding until the moment Bujar died. He does not accept that his brother had money owed to the perpetrator of the crime, dismissing the version that Bujar Barçi was executed because of an old debt, as has been claimed until today. “My brother owed no one anything, but even if he did, things should not have come to this,” says Agim. “I know that Bujari had rented out a property in the Kashar area to the perpetrator of the event, who, as Bujari had told me, had sold it to him, and at the moment when Bujari asked him for explanations, he shot him,” says the childhood friend of the Albanian film producer... Continued on page 9

The fund for businesses is approved, Basha: Help for young people (In the photo:) The Mayor of Tirana, Lulzim Basha, at yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Council. The new boulevard project Qatar offered 7 million euros for extending Tirana’s main boulevard, from the Railway Station to the Paskuqan Hills. Work on the project within April By ERMELINDA HOXHAJ The Tirana Municipal Council has given the green light, with 29 votes in favor, to the start of the investment for expanding “Zogu I” boulevard to the Paskuqan hills. The Socialist Movement for Integration voted in favor of approving the grant... On page 13

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