ITINERARY / DRUGS FROM CUBA TO ALBANIA VIA TURKEY AND GREECE “We worked for 2 months, they didn’t pay us” ITINERARY / DRUGS FROM CUBA TO ALBANIA VIA TURKEY AND GREECE The Colombians speak “We worked for 2 months, they didn’t pay us” • Interior Minister: The largest laboratory in the Balkans. 11 people arrested, over 100 kg of drugs, 360 thousand euros and 6 different weapons seized By KLODIANA LALA AURORA KOROMANI Cezar Adolfo Avila and Walther Moren Juan Moreno, the two Colombians suspected of being experts in mixing cocaine, who were arrested in Xibrakë in Elbasan, where a laboratory for processing hard drugs was discovered, entered Albania two months ago. In the statement given... Continued on pages 2-5 (In photo:) The laboratory in the village of Xibrakë in Elbasan. The two arrested Colombians, Cezar Adolfo Avila, Walther Moren Juan Moreno. Ermal Hoxha

Opinion of the Day By BEN BLUSHI A year ago around this time, I began writing [?] a book about pessimism and its consequences for our society. Although I would like to be wrong,... A question for Muhammad Continued on page 22

Opinion of the Day By FATOS TARIFA The terrorist attack of 7 January in Paris has reignited, with particular intensity, the already endemic debate over the causes that motivate radicalism... Islamic radicalism and identity politics Continued on page 23

Ermal Hoxha to police: I have nothing to do with drugs On page 5

COMMENT By MENTOR KIKIA On page 24

A joke with Meta Rama with RESSH: We will beat the opponent in 2017 as well On page 9

US AMBASSADOR Donald Lu: We encourage dialogue between the majority and the opposition On page 8

MEDIA / Serbia’s main newspapers: Descendants of the Illyrians? A big lie “He originates from the Branilović dynasty of Zeta” MEDIA / Serbia’s main newspapers: Descendants of the Illyrians? A big lie “Kurir”: Gjorgje Kastriotiç, our hero “He originates from the Branilović dynasty of Zeta” “Hate speech” is not only a call for murder and terrorism. “Hate speech” is also when you denigrate a people and call it historyless, or when you insult a nation and label it a thief of heroes and without origin. This happens frequently in the Serbian media. What is striking is that: if such views are published in Albania by very marginal media outlets, in Serbia the language of hatred and denigration toward Albanians is the norm, not the exception. “Gazeta Shqiptare” today brings translated... On page 13

HEALTHCARE Specialists, contract penalties: Refund the payment 5 times over On page 10

650 lek per month for 204 thousand people On page 11

“A friend introduced me to him, I didn’t know what he did” On page 12

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1 THOUSAND NAMES Owners, Tirana’s new list, who benefits On pages 15-19