The rocket theft operation was directed from the Socialist Party headquarters ON PAGE 2

Defense experts understand how the rockets were stolen ON PAGE 2

Ten dead and many wounded in Berat ON PAGE 2

Nano at the head of the installed administration, following the violent elections of 29 June “​​Nano 3” takes the oath The President, a puppet before the Mussolinian prime minister. Nano falsifies his parliamentary mandate. Pyramid-scheme usurer Malaj keeps his post. Minister Milo turns toward Serbia. Nano finds the “gege” entourage for the government of gangs Yesterday, Albania installed the most criminal and unacceptable government in the world. Not only as a direct provocation by the parliament of Kalashnikovs that emerged from the violent elections of 29 June, but above all because of the tainted political records of the members of the Nano 3 cabinet, whose administration, temporarily set to govern Albania, promises nothing toward solving the country’s major problems. The new government was sworn in yesterday before a president who felt extremely uncomfortable before the prime minister, who the day before had reminded everyone in parliament that he himself was the king. This government begins work with a man as prime minister who, from the first day the Kalashnikov parliament was constituted, trampled on the institutions of the president and the speaker of Parliament, declaring himself the Mussolini of Albania. The normal Albania promised during the campaign by the amateurs of the Socialist Party begins with the dangerous and threatening abnormality of a prime minister proclaiming himself the number one figure of the state, when under Albanian law that role belongs to the president. From yesterday’s swearing-in, Mejdani began playing the role of a puppet, while Nano took on the role of an all-powerful despot. All-powerful. Now at the head of the state stands a man who has twice served as prime minister and who was imprisoned for corruption and abuse of public office, after abusing the hunger of Albanians in 1991. He is the same person who was prime minister during the massacre of 4 April in Shkodër, at a time when all the killings from February through April 1991 also took place, and who bears just as much primary responsibility for the reconciliation in Tirana immediately after his party’s victory, when Agron Gjonpali was killed. The new government will be led by a man whose parliamentary mandate is highly suspect—not only because he ran in the heart of the armed rebellion or because he received a falsified mandate from the Tepelenë constituency election commission, whose chairman did not sign the minutes. Above all, it is because he was sentenced to 12 years and, in the eyes of the Albanian courts, he is still in prison, despite benefiting from Berisha’s successive pardons. In the new cabinet, all those around Nano, including Medjani, are the returning, criminal figures from the last communist governments of Ramiz Alia, whose names were once so reviled that people covered their ears at the sound of them, six years ago. It also includes new names from the National Party Government, who in only a few months broke every record for corruption in customs and tenders, not to mention similar conduct in the party’s election-campaign organization. The new government has retained Finance Minister Arben Malaj, who is entangled with the best-known names in the pyramid-scheme world, as well as with pyramid-scheme operators and service providers, and is also a recipient of their substantial honoraria. In the installed government of former socialists, the Foreign Minister is a man known for the irritation Albanians cause him, who, before even settling into the ministerial chair, declared that he would begin by putting relations with Serbia in order. Likewise, institutional reform will be carried out by Arben Imami, now in civilian clothes, after he has supposedly shed the uniform of the “general” of the armed gang in the South; he has warned that he would launch an assault on Tirana, but first he must complete his vote and leave Albania, foundation and foreign diplomat. This government is feared because of where it has come from and because it is criminal; indeed, its entire record is thoroughly tainted. With a parasitic prime minister wielding machine-like powers over a puppet president and a clownish parliament… let us conclude: God help the new government!

Fundamentalist terror in Peshkopi. Nine dead and 16 wounded in the explosion of TNT in an apartment building The Socialist Party has announced that, upon coming to power, it is prepared to carry out deep purges in the justice system, removing the

The ruling of the Tirana Court of First Instance, in April 1994, sentencing Fatos Nano for misappropriation of state property The court, relying on Articles 149 and 150 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, DECIDED: 1. To find the defendant Fatos Nano guilty of the criminal offense of misappropriating state property through abuse of office, for the benefit of other persons, on a large scale, in the amount of 72,573,000 lekë, and, pursuant to Article 62 in conjunction with Article 31, letter “d,” of the Criminal Code, to sentence him to 10 years’ imprisonment. - offense of falsifying official documents and, pursuant to Article 110 Code, to sentence him to 3 years’ imprisonment. - Combining the sentences, pursuant to Article 35 of the Criminal Code, to sentence him definitively to 12 years’ imprisonment. The sentence shall run from the date of arrest, 30. 7. 1993. To uphold the civil claim brought by the district prosecutor’s office, ordering the defendant Fatos Nano, pursuant to Article 156 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to pay the Albanian state the sum of 72,573,000 lekë; the claim is dismissed as to the remainder.

Greece forcibly expelled 700 Albanian emigrants yesterday Greek police torture Albanians A group of emigrants returned from Athens said that Greek police had used not only batons and the butts of their guns against them, but also bladed weapons GJIROKASTËR - Greek police forcibly expelled hundreds of Albanian emigrants yesterday. Border sources in Kakavijë said that 700 Albanian emigrants returning on foot yesterday through the Kakavijë border crossing in the district of Gjirokastër had suffered physical violence and been mistreated in Greek police detention cells. Groups of punished emigrants show two of their wounds, caused by blows from rubber truncheons and wooden sticks, as well as by the butts of Greek police officers’ guns. police had used not only batons against them, but also bladed weapons, a fact that has also been mentioned in the media of the neighboring country. The situation is also difficult after they enter Albanian territory, as a result of robber gangs’ control of the Kakavijë-Ballsh road. In addition to robbing emigrants of their money, these gangs have terrorized and mistreated many of the unfortunate emigrants. Drivers of long-distance bus routes, as well as those operating within the district, are reluctant to put their vehicles into service for fear of these criminal gangs. The total number of emigrants returned from Greece during this month, which also marks the beginning of mass returns, amounts to several thousand people. ON PAGE 3

Fehmi Abdiu, a [??] of the PS’s revanchism in the Albanian Parliament The Socialists punish the DP’s allies. The criminal Fehmi Abdiu has fabricated documents through which he is trying to keep as many opposition members as possible out of parliament. The Democratic Party leader, Bushati, presented a series of documents and minutes yesterday. ON PAGE 3

DP condemns the terrorist act in Peshkopi The Democratic Party yesterday condemned the terrorist act involving the gruesome killing in their sleep of several innocent people and the wounding of many others the night before in the city of Peshkopi. The DP expresses its deepest condolences to the victims’ families and shares in their grief. The DP supports all efforts by the law-enforcement and justice authorities to apprehend the perpetrators of this terrorist act, one of the most heinous in Albania, and punish them with the full severity of the law. The DP strongly condemns terrorism that is taking innocent lives and asks Parliament to reconsider the hasty decision it made yesterday to repeal the law on the state of emergency. The DP believes that the law’s hasty repeal was politically motivated. It was demanded by the committees and gives criminal gangs broad freedom of action, at a time when the state, as a result of the rebellion, is not functioning in its entirety and is unable to protect its citizens—not at night, but not even in broad daylight. The DP believes that immediately reinstating this law until the state restores order and calm and assumes responsibility for ensuring the safety of its citizens will narrow the scope for terrorist activity and criminal operations.

Berisha offers condolences to the families of the victims of Peshkopi The cruel killing in their sleep of your loved ones has deeply saddened me and my family. Condemning the barbaric act with all my strength, I offer you, in my own name and on behalf of the Democratic Party, my deepest condolences. I pray to God that the souls of your loved ones may rest in eternal peace, and that you may find the strength and resilience to endure and overcome the profound pain of these irreplaceable losses.

Lord Russell Johnston of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, on the situation in Albania ON PAGE 4

Nano’s men shown mercy by the North. Two secretaries of Neritan Ceka and a deputy-minister