The socialist leader yesterday signed the request addressed to the Tepelenë court and is seeking release from prison Under the New Code, Nano’s lawyers are confident that the chairman of the PS will be released Yesterday, socialist leader Fatos Nano signed, together with his lawyers Sanxhaku and Tirara, the request addressed to the Tepelenë court seeking his release from prison. Before being drafted and sent to Nano for his signature, this request was discussed on Friday by the Socialist Party’s Legal Commission. Continued on page 3

Lawyer K. Koçi: “A completely illegal decision” Yesterday the Tirana court ruled Page 3

- Police apprehend five children in Kakavijë Everything about the phenomenon that is shocking Albanians pages 12–13

Blood feuds pages 10–11 Mirditë — Gjin Dodaj with the bride of his murdered son and two of the four children left orphaned, 2 June 1995

Athens Prosecutor’s Office: “Let the investigations resume” ATHENS — The Athens Prosecutor’s Office has requested the resumption of investigations into the possible involvement of Greek extremists in the bloody attack carried out in April 1994 against the Albanian barracks at Peshkëpi, which also triggered the beginning of a crisis between Athens and Tirana, a Greek judicial source said on Saturday. The Prosecutor’s Office has proposed to the Supreme Court, which is expected to issue its opinion soon, that proceedings be initiated “against whoever may be responsible for disrupting peaceful relations” between Greece and neighboring countries, for murder or attempted murder, the source stressed. Nine ultranationalists, five Greeks and four members of Albania’s Greek minority, were arrested in March of this year. They are suspected of involvement in the attack on the Albanian barracks, but have been charged only with transporting and possessing weapons, according to the same source. Seven of them were caught at the Greek-Albanian border, carrying Kalashnikovs stolen from the Peshkëpi barracks, as they were preparing, according to the Greek press, to carry out an operation against another Albanian barracks. Their two accomplices were detained after police discovered other Kalashnikovs stolen from the Albanian barracks hidden in their garden. Athens was waiting for these weapons to be identified before acknowledging the possibility that Greek extremists had taken part in the attack on the Albanian barracks—an attack for which it initially blamed the Albanian side, calling it an “Albanian provocation,” despite the claim of responsibility made by MAVI, a Greek irredentist organization. The attack on the Peshkëpi barracks, during which two Albanian soldiers were killed, triggered a crisis between the two countries that lasted 11 months.