ITINERARY/ DRUGS FROM CUBA TO ALBANIA VIA TURKEY AND GREECE “We worked for 2 months, they didn’t give us the money” ITINERARY/ DRUGS FROM CUBA TO ALBANIA VIA TURKEY AND GREECE THE COLOMBIANS SPEAK “We worked for 2 months, they didn’t give us the money” • Interior Minister: The largest laboratory in the Balkans. 11 people in handcuffs, more than 100 kg of drugs, 360 thousand euros and 6 different weapons seized By KLODIANA LALA AURORA KOROMANI Cezar Adolfo Avila and Celther Moren Juan Moreno, the two Colombians suspected of being cocaine mixing experts, who were arrested in Xibrakë, Elbasan, where a laboratory for processing hard drugs was discovered, entered Albania two months ago. In the testimony given... Continues on pages 2-5 (In the 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 at this time, I began by writing a book about pessimism and its miserable consequences in our society. Although I would like to be wrong,... A question for Muhamet Continues on page 22

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

“A FRIEND OF MINE INTRODUCED HIM TO ME, I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HE DID” On page 12

Ermal Hoxha to the police: I have no connection with drugs On page 5

COMMENT By MENTOR KIKIA On page 24

BANTER WITH META Rama with RESSH: We will defeat the opponent even in 2017 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 Braniloviç dynasty of Zeta” Hate speech is not only a call for murder and terrorism. “Hate speech” is also when it denigrates a people and calls them historyless, and when it insults a nation and labels it as a thief of heroes and without origin. This happens frequently in the Serbian media. MEDIA/ Serbia’s main newspapers: Descendants of the Illyrians? A big lie “Kurir”: Gjorgjie Kastriotiç, our hero “He originates from the Braniloviç dynasty of Zeta” Hate speech” is not only a call for murder and terrorism. “Hate speech” is also when it denigrates a people and calls them historyless, and when it insults a nation and labels it as a thief of heroes and without origin. This happens frequently in the Serbian media. What is striking is that: if such positions in Albania are published by very peripheral media outlets, in Serbia the language of hatred and denigration toward Albanians is the norm rather than the standard. “Gazeta Shqiptare” brings today, translated... On page 13

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