Rinas cries out, police kill the masked “commando” ARMED ATTACK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT INSIDE THE AIRPORT RUNWAY, 5 ARMED MEN QUICKLY ROB THE MONEY THAT WAS BEING SENT TO AUSTRIA • Passengers on the plane speak: we thought it was an exercise. 40 people escorted, 4 arrest warrants expected • The perpetrators burn the van with the inscription “Tax Investigation”. Precedents: airport security was breached even in 2016 TIRANA - Planned and organized in detail just like an action movie we may have seen hundreds of times on television. Everything went as it should, until the moment one of the 5 robbers was killed. Yesterday’s robbery inside what is perhaps the safest place in Albania, “Nënë Tereza” Airport ... Continues on pages 2-3 (In the photo:) View from the robbery in Rinas

Opinion Of the Day Many foreign tourists, but also Albanian emigrants who rarely come back to their homeland, are struck not only by the very large number and the density of ... Continues on page 21

By XHEVAT MUSTAFA Cafés full, an expression of prosperity or misery? Continues on page 21

Opinion Of the Day The laughs of language always give everyone, professionals or laypeople, a serious reason to laugh. This not only thanks to the instinctive relationship that speakers have ... Continues on page 21 By ELSA RAKIPLLARI The Albanian language at university and functional illiteracy

PALMER’S MESSAGE On page 5

LEGALIZATIONS On pages 10-11

DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER On page 6

WEIGHTLIFTING On page 22

Meta: The violence used should be investigated. Veliaj: The houses are illegal Operation to widen the boulevard, clashes with residents, tear gas used 7 houses were demolished in Bregu i Lumit, while the process was accompanied by violence and clashes between residents and police. Residents resisted so their houses would not be demolished, while police used tear gas to force them out. At least that is how it was reported by the journalists who followed the situation. According to the residents, 38 homes were excluded from the compensation scheme, while the municipality claims that they have no documents and built without permits. They have only been offered a rent subsidy and access to soft loans or social housing. The rest of the residents are demanding compensation before the works are carried out. These are the two groups resisting the demolition of the houses, which will pave the way for the start of the works to widen the boulevard ... On pages 8-9

Korça the best even today ...

Korça the best even today ...