PEQIN/ FAMILY DRAMA, THE FATHER’S TESTIMONY TO POLICE: I REGRET IT “Why I shot my son with 5 bullets” Ismail Bahja executed his 33-year-old son with a pistol: He came home drunk and hit us. He tried to poison my wife with fostoksinë, we were frightened By FATMIR POPJA The son tried to kill his mother, so I shot him with five pistol bullets. He had been threatening me and my wife constantly, telling us that the three of us would die and that none of us would leave the house alive.” This is what the 70-year-old Ismail Bahja from the village of Paulesh in the Peqin district declared to the police, after he executed his 33-year-old son Elton Bahja on Tuesday evening. “One day after the serious incident, sources close to the investigation team said that the conflict in the Bahja family had started about three months earlier. According to family members... On page 12

Handcuffs for the brother of Baki Taullai, who was killed in 2005 by the Lushnja gang (In photo:) Three of the four arrested in the “Smart” operation, caught with 1.5 kg of heroin at Plepat in Durrës 23-year-old Laert Haxhiu tries to flee and breaks his leg: I didn’t realize it was the police. Operation “Smart”, 1.5 kg of heroin seized By KLODIANA HAXHIAJ The Anti-Drug sector forces of the Durrës Police Directorate, in cooperation with the Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes... On page 9

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