STRASBOURG SUSPENDS PROPERTY OWNERS’ CLAIMS: COMPENSATION WITH THE NEW SCHEME “PROPERTY” IS FROZEN Council of Europe: “Ok” to the new law Owners who have complaints about the land restitution process must exhaust the 3 levels of the judiciary from the beginning again. State Advocate and AKKP: The Committee of Ministers has assessed us By ORNELA MANJANI The Committee of Ministers for Human Rights at the Council of Europe said “Yes” to the property law. The law adopted on 5 December 2015, “On the treatment of property and the completion of the property compensation process,” which has been challenged by former owners, meets the recommendations of the European Court of Human Rights for the final resolution of the property issue. The approval of the property law by the Committee of Ministers for Human Rights at the Council of Europe proves the fact that the law has been drafted in a- Continues on page 6

ATTACK/ Elton Imeri: I suspect it has to do with my brother, not with work INTERVIEW (In photo:) Military Police officer, Elton Imeri. The car in which the 34-year-old was traveling Story from the hospital: The Chief of the General Staff also visited me. They implicated my brother in a robbery, but he is not guilty. They also attacked him By XHENSILA KODRA I was alone in the car. When the explosion happened, I managed to get out of it and walked for a few meters on one leg. Then a van driver helped me that Continues on page 9

INTERVIEW/ MEDALS OF “29 NOVEMBER” On page 5

Opinion of the Day The December 8 protest organized by the largest opposition party rang out with the “neutralization” of the bunkers at the Ministry of the Interior, ... By BUJAR VANI The bunker that is kept out of favor Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day It is up to us as people to express gratitude with conviction and heart that the international friends, first of all, the USA and Western countries ... By XHEVAT MUSTAFA A request for international friends Continues on page 21

5 ARRESTED/ INVESTIGATION OF BOZDO AND NDREGJONI Fleckenstein: Violence, I do not understand the motive of the protest On pages 2, 4

INTERVIEW Edi Rama: I had different views from my father On page 13

“THE WAR” IN LAZARAT Prosecution: 110 years in prison for the group of Gate Mahmutaj On page 8

INTERVIEW Conversation with Teodor Laço, literature in the plot of the coup plotters On page 17

DENUNCIATION The disabled: The state owes us 200 thousand lek each On page 10

SHKODER/ THE ABUSED WOMAN SPEAKS 30-year-old woman: My husband beat me with a belt and with clothes hangers On page 16

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