“Doshi told me: We were wrong, we rushed” INTERVIEW / VALTER BAMI: THE MEETING WITH TOME AFTER DURIM’S ARREST Valter Bami: Durim told me he made it up. They did not threaten him, perhaps he took money. Tom Doshi: Durim’s brother told me that different cars have been going around them By AURORA KOROMANI After my brother was arrested, I met Tom Doshi and asked him what all this story was about, and he told me, ‘we made this mistake, we rushed it’. This is the account of Durim Bami’s brother, the man arrested for his involvement in the plot to kill MP Tom Doshi. Contacted by “Gazeta Shqiptare”, Valter Bami recounts what he knows about the story in which his brother is also involved. “My brother agreed with Tom Doshi to do this thing, perhaps they deceived him with money,” Valteri says. In addition, he states that he met his brother in his cell and learned from him that he said on camera... Continues on page 4

Opinion of the Day What is Saranda? This is more than just a question, in an essay that is as open as it is both real and theoretical-meditative. By PËRPARIM KABO What is Saranda? This is also more than just a question, in an essay that is as open as it is both real and theoretical-meditative. For every city, the definition... Continues on page 23 Saranda, attraction or rejection…

Opinion of the Day When I first came across the shortened title of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade... By JOSIF PAPAGJONI When I first came across the shortened title of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade and somewhere in the mid-1980s, which in the original... Continues on pages 24-25 The Marats of overturned utopias

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BLUE TOOTH Xherdan Shaqiri speaks to “BT”: I want an Albanian wife Kika-Alba, row in “Big Brother 8”. Meta turns 46, birthday photos Jonida Shehu: I filed a report for stalking, not for messages • The journalist: That man has fulfilled all the elements of the criminal offense, the court finds (In photo:) Fjolla Morina. The Speaker of Parliament Ilir Meta during his 46th birthday celebration. The quarrel between Kika and Alba in “BB8” Media in Kosovo: Cozman causes a fracture to Tuna. The singer: He only beats me in the beak. Fjolla Morina, pregnant with businessman Flori Mumajesi, response to Juliana Pasha: I did not steal your song, you did not invent the colors of the flag. Neda and Ogren become parents Supplement

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