NEW PROCEDURE FOR BUILDING PERMITS AND ADDITIONS TO APARTMENT BUILDINGS Documents that must be submitted to local units. Instructions for online permits. An estimate and the declaration of the licensed designer are required (In the photo) Apartment buildings under construction On pages 10-11

By ANI WILMS I, a free Albanian woman in Berlin

Opinion of the Day In the evening news editions, through the crime reports, several television stations aired a short item reporting the death of a vagrant... Continues on page 20 By ILIR ÇUMANI The silent departure of the innocent vagrant...!

3,000 applicants in the Tirana municipality “An opportunity also for early applicants; with one request you are back in the competition” More than 3,000 applicants for soft loans in Tirana are still left in the running to benefit from this opportunity from the Tirana Municipality. This was declared on the show Njerez në Fokus, on News24, by Mayor Erjon Veliaj, who said that this year this opportunity will be reopened for the citizens of Tirana... On page 9

FREEZING TEMPERATURES, 3 VICTIMS On pages 2-3

INTERVIEW On page 7

DURRES On page 12

POLICE VIOLATION On page 11

STORY/ Mother-in-law Hëna Zeqo appeals to her daughter-in-law: At least let me keep my granddaughter Husband in prison, Xhuljana Zeqo starts living with him. Her father: I can’t do anything about it TIRANA- An unusual story came yesterday to the studio of the show “Me zemër të hapur” by journalist Evis Ahmeti on “News 24”. It is the story of a mother who, with tears in her eyes, asks that her son’s wife return so that she can take back her 6-year-old grandson, whom she abandoned to go with her 18-year-old boyfriend. The main character of this almost soap-opera story is Xhuljana. She was 16 when she decided to marry in the city of Vlora to Ernesto Zeqo. Xhuljana, mother of three children, has left the Zeqo family and abandoned her eldest son. The former mother-in-law, Hëna Zeqo, recounts on the show “Me zemër të hapur” the ordeal of her sufferings. At the moment, her only son Ernesto is in prison, because the daughter-in-law before abandoning him,... On page 14

1,550 BENEFICIARIES On pages 16-18

Korça BEER still the best today ... Opinion of the Day When, in the first days of October 1994, I got off the plane and set foot in Berlin, with a degree from the University of Tirana in my pocket and a dream... Continues on page 21

still the best today ...