A difficult winter for Albanian emigrants The number of police patrolling the border with Albania reaches 800 Along with measures to strengthen surveillance of the Greek-Albanian border, the Greek Minister of Public Order announces an intensification of the “Sweep” operations. During the years '92-'95, Greek police have arrested and sent back more than 1 million 100 thousand Albanian emigrants. What “Koha Jonë” had written a month and a half ago, namely that the “Sweep” was approaching, now seems to be becoming reality after the Greek Minister of Public Order declared that in the coming days operations to find, arrest and repatriate Albanian emigrants in Greece will be intensified. On Monday in Ioannina a meeting was held with the participation of the Greek Foreign Minister, Karolos Papoulias, the Minister of Public Order Sifis Valirakis, the Deputy Minister of Defense Nikos Kouris, the head of the Greek Intelligence Service, as well as the commander of the Ioannina division and other senior officers. (continued on page 2)

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Over 35 days, the lifeless bodies of 25 emigrants have passed through Kakavijë Two Albanian emigrants have died on foreign soil. On Monday around 8:30 p.m. the lifeless bodies of 27-year-old Shkëlqim Seferi from Picari in Gjirokastër, and of an 18-year-old woman from Saranda, were returned at the Kakavijë border crossing. Yesterday at noon, Seferi’s relatives, together with some acquaintances, accompanied him to his final resting place in the cemetery of his native village, Picar. As for the 18-year-old woman, there is no concrete information; for the young people from Picari it is understood that she was hit by a train near the railway line in the Greek capital. Seferi, a former police non-commissioned officer in the public order bodies of Gjirokastër, due to his minimum salary and the dream of building a new house, had asked about a month earlier to leave the security forces and had started the adventure of emigration to the Greek capital. He was accompanied to the Kakavijë border point by his brother, who two days earlier had informed the family about Shkëlqim’s absence. On the fifth day of the month it is again the victim’s brother who informs the family in his native village that Shkëlqim had been found dead in a morgue in Athens, where he had been taken after the railway accident. Nevertheless, the exact circumstances of the accident and the death of the 27-year-old, who leaves behind a pregnant wife, are still unknown. Thus ends the first five days of December with the arrival of three bodies in Kakavijë, a place that for dozens of Albanian families has now begun to be called the “gate of misfortune.” During November, 22 bodies returned from Greece were registered at this point, and to date their number has risen to 25. In the service book of our police, near this crossing, the registration of the bodies also includes their age, which generally remains 17, 25 and 32 years old. I. B./A.Ç. 500 bodies of emigrants returned to their families page 5 Italy the country where the largest number of Albanian emigrants have died

The football team “Juventus” returned yesterday from Sofia to Turin, unable to fly to Bucharest because of bad weather, strong winds and a snowstorm that caused the Romanian airport to be closed. Their attempts to travel by train from Sofia to Bucharest were also impossible. The officials of the “Juventus” club in Sofia contacted UEFA officials, from whom they received approval to postpone their match with Steaua Bucharest, scheduled for this evening. As a result, “Juventus” had its return to Italy delayed by 24 hours, which would take place on 13 December. A Romanian couple heading home through the snowstorm, the roads, railways, airports and the ports of the Black Sea are almost closed by the powerful snowstorms photo Reuters We only know how to lift weights World champion Luan Shabani speaks page 13

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