Charges are being drawn up / Gazidede’s appointment, chemical weapons, arming the northerners The Prosecutor’s Office submits a request to parliament to lift immunity. Page 7

BY BLENDI FEVZIU The Albanian Parliament has posted on the Prosecutor’s Office’s doors six serious charges against former President Berisha. According to the report of the Ngjela Commission, approved five days ago by the votes of the majority MPs, the number one of the DP must answer for several sins, the most serious of which are six instances in which he violated constitutional laws. In chronological order, the charges include appointing Gazidede to head the State of Emergency; mobilizing the northern paramilitary forces; inciting national hatred; moving troops from the North to the South; using poisonous substances and deploying the Guard. But posting the list of sins and the hysterical calls of the pink-shirted MPs, which seek more to strengthen their shaky positions in the provinces where they were elected than to see Berisha punished, do not seem likely to bring any serious change to Nano’s policy. The leader of the SP and the country’s Prime Minister has repeatedly stated in public comments, including yesterday in Bënçë, that he does not intend to reserve for the man who imprisoned him the same fate, nor to give him the card of political catharsis. Naturally, that would be more logical, if one considers that in this shaken Albania, inflaming tensions and imprisoning political figures will bring only further turmoil, rather than peace. But if Nano continues to condemn his repeated statements, it seems that all this is more a story like the others than an attempt to clarify the turbulent period of last March–April. The parliament dominated by the SP and the institutions that emerged from it have played the game of bluff more than once. The above-mentioned orders of Berisha have been there for more than a year, and if they constituted legal violations, the Prosecutor’s Office could have acted without waiting for a parliamentary commission to be set up or for its report. The same has happened in several other cases, when events have been blown out of proportion and commented on, but have later come to nothing. One such case was the decision that came to nothing. Another was the Milot Bridge case and its degradation from an armed confrontation with the security forces into a minor offense punishable by a fine. This logic of inaction has worked in the other cases too. Mentioning or identifying them would be nothing new in the day’s public debate; perhaps Berisha and the passage of his file, with Braho’s tricks and Kapsi’s office, seem [?] to be part of an anthology of threats with consequences. It will add a [?] abstractionist streak to today’s politics.

Mafia, organ trafficking involving Albanian children

Teta must enforce the law, otherwise we will remove him P. 3

Interview with SP MP, Dritëro Agolli P. 5

The Ministry of Justice issued its decision yesterday P. 2

The Prime Minister pardons the one who served his sentence P. 3

Berat erupts in revolt by creditors of the “2K” company. After Berat, unrest threatens to erupt in Patos Yesterday in Berat, creditors of the “2K” company began making public, ultimatum-like demands for the return of the money invested in the “2K” company. The cause was the replies given by an official from the family of the president of the company in question, which had collected securities from hundreds of people: “Don’t ask me for the money, ask 2K.” You have the money as security. But the director did not accept even the responses of the director of the Beral Education Directorate, Ymer Kurbia, so protests began, small at first, but apparently they could become dangerous for the public-order forces next week. The creditors turned to Ymer Kordha as their last hope, since he has Mr. Kokëdhima under his wing for the construction of a school in this city, which “2K” has not completed. The only hope and, at the same time, the people’s point of contact was the director in question, who could force the borrower to return the money. But Director Kordha replied: “Ask for the money there, not from me,” despite my goodwill and desire to help. The president of the “2K” company, who has several investment projects and is waiting for a tender that Minister Apostoli or Minister Ruka might award him, has promised to appear next week to meet with his creditors. Some of the lenders who provided securities do not trust the company in question, so they have decided to turn to the district court to recover the sums they paid, while another part of them, Farudin Arapi declared that they should turn to the court, although the wave of protests could spread to other cities in the country where money has been deposited with this company. An inside source at the company says that the president has said he will immediately pay only that portion of the amount for which they may officially approach Mr. Arapi.

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