The terror and pressure of the installed government on local government escalate Bomb at the Tirana Municipality Nano “honestly” threatens Brojka. The Prime Minister plays the hypocrite over the serious incident at the Palace of Congresses. The criminal act of Nano’s bodyguards is not condemned Terror against local government and the hypocrite’s “apology” The brazen, gangster-like action against the Tirana municipal officials comes after threats and blockages ordered verbally by the prefect of Tirana, as well as threats of fines from the Financial Police Directorate. The National Assembly of Communes and Municipalities, in a special press statement, yesterday denounced the threats and pressures against local government institutions, elected by the citizens through free and democratic vote. “One week ago, on the verbal order of the Prefecture, the accounts of the Tirana Municipality, as well as several other local units, were frozen in state banks with absurd and ridiculous justifications. Dozens and hundreds of employees’ salaries have remained unpaid, while citizens are being delayed in receiving services. And what is the justification? The justification is that local government, in its own form, does not obey the prefect’s authorities. All this is done at a time when local government is the only institution that has resisted chaos and anarchy in Albania and today, with its own funds, has exemplary calmed many areas in the country. We call all these actions against local government a criminal and unconstitutional act, worthy of totalitarian regimes,” said the statement of the AKKB. Meanwhile, the Tirana Municipality comes forward with a direct accusation concerning the placing of the bomb in its building. According to official sources from the municipality and the findings of criminal police experts, the placement of the bomb and its remote detonator with military precision was planned for the time of the meeting of the Tirana Municipal Council. The bomb was placed under the stage where the municipal council meeting was being held, which was under the protection of the Republican Guard. It contained 3.6 kg of explosive, shell fragments and anti-tank grenades. Fortunately, the device did not explode, but this does not reduce the high dose of terror exerted on the chairman and members of the Municipal Council. Yet it is no wonder that this representative of free vote and pluralism would be one of the preferred targets of communist terror. The National Assembly of Communes and Municipalities declared that it was deeply shocked by the repeated attacks on local institutions freely and democratically elected. These attacks culminated in the placing of a bomb at the Tirana Municipality during the Municipal Council meeting, which constitutes a terrorist act and an obvious attempt to intimidate and frighten the organs of local government. The Assembly calls on all political forces, the government and state institutions to unequivocally distance themselves from such acts and to strongly denounce their perpetrators and instigators,” the statement said. It also asked the state authorities to take immediate measures to clarify this serious event and to guarantee the inviolability of the local government bodies and representatives. Terror and the hypocrite’s “apology” Through his public spokesman, Prime Minister Fatos Nano last night issued a statement regarding yesterday’s terrorist act at the Tirana Municipality. In style and tone, it is typically Nano-esque. Paraphrased, it is as follows: after insulting him, threatening him, financially blocking him, sending police and military forces to occupy offices, attempting to assassinate the political opponent and planting a bomb, the hypocritical prime minister “expresses his indignation and deep shock to the mayor of the capital, Albert Brojka…” He further assures him that he has “charged the highest representatives of the police and other bodies with the full and swift investigation of this act…” Yet this same prime minister, just 48 hours earlier, had sent Brojka “keepers of order” into his office and insulted him there as a lowlife. Who is this man trying to impress, anyway?! The Palace of Congresses, Nano’s bodyguard with mafia traits After the appearance of the Municipal Council decisions that infringed on Prime Minister Nano’s personal interests regarding the premises of the Palace of Culture, the Tirana municipal officials found themselves facing threats, blockages and orders from the central government. Although part of the print and electronic media tried to minimize and distort the aggressiveness of Prime Minister Fatos Nano’s bodyguards toward the Tirana Municipality officials, they still could not hide the whole truth. The serious incident of Thursday at the Palace of Congresses, where the Tirana municipal officials were carrying out a routine inspection of the offices turned into living quarters for Fatos Nano and his partner, was worthy of mafia-film scenarios. According to sources from the Tirana Municipality, Nano’s bodyguards entered the offices of the Tirana Municipality armed, where the inventory of the occupied premises was being made, and in loud and vulgar tones threatened and insulted the administrative staff and financial police officers. Later, the Prime Minister’s bodyguards snatched the inspection report from their hands and tore it up, rushed in with kicks and broke the window of the inventory office car. Meanwhile, the head of the financial police stood limp in the face of the violence and arrogance of Fatos Nano’s bodyguards. Even more unbearable is the hysteria and demagoguery of Fatos Nano’s spokesman, who, after calling this rush toward terrorism of power “duty performance,” now, with a typically totalitarian shamelessness, presents the banditry of Nano’s bodyguards as a “misunderstanding”! In the photo: the building of the Tirana Municipality; Albert Brojka

United parties to denounce the anti-national conspiracy! The Christian Democratic Party, the Party of Legality, the Democratic Alliance, the Balli Kombëtar, the Republican Party, the Liberal Democratic Union Party, the League for Human Rights and Freedoms, the United Democratic Party, etc. have decided to organize a peaceful rally on Sunday, 12 October 1997, at 11:00 a.m., to oppose: - The shameful scenarios directed by anti-Albanians to keep neo-communist schemes in force in Albania. - The incurable refusal by the socialists led by Fatos Nano to respect pluralism and the rule of law. - The insult and contempt for the free vote through the preparation of the electoral farce of 26 October. - The creation of conditions for a civil war. - The division of Albania according to the Greek-Serbian platform of 1946. - The refusal to publicly denounce the Greek genocide against the Cham Albanians. - The use of Albanian soldiers and police for the interests of the Greek government. - The death sentence of the market economy and lawful property, by blocking the banking system and bankrupting private business. - The toleration of local mafia at the expense of the Albanian people. - All democrats and patriots are invited to take part. Please appear calmly and firmly in order to avoid any kind of provocation. - Signature of the above parties - Notice Prime Minister Fatos Nano, also in the absence of a regular administrative order with protocol no.?! is trying to forcibly evict PDSH from its lawful headquarters, which has been paid for with the money of its members and is under its administration according to the law! This is a serious violation of the rule of law! The Christian Democratic Party, the Democratic National Front Party, the Democratic Alliance, the Republican Party, the Party of Legality, the League for Human Rights and Freedoms, strongly condemn the arbitrary and anti-national action of Prime Minister Fatos Nano against PDSH and political pluralism in Albania. These parties assure their members and electorate that they will stand in solidarity with the democrats and will take an active part in Sunday’s peaceful protest. During the protest, all the above organizations are invited to participate with all their attributes, without any kind of obstacle. For this reason, any party or organization has the right to display not only its own flag but also its own banners and slogans. We invite all patriotic Albanians to turn Sunday’s “Skënderbej” Square into a temple of freedom and democracy! “From all Albania to Tirana” is our call. - Signature of the above parties -

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angazhatië Ishfi të [?[?]] të policisë In the final hours of the opposition and Christian Democratic Party protests, the police have arrested more than 600 opposition members and activists

Speaks the chairman of the National Association “For the Return of Money Lent at Usury”, Misir Sahiti: “The state is turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the lost creditors” On page 5 “I will cooperate with all political forces,” which was publicly translated as: “I will deal preferentially with the creditors’ problems, since you are the most demanding and the loudest problem so far.” Sine qua non and the associations of creditors who lost money to usury, if their economic programming, in the economy, requires connecting with all. [unreadable text?]

On page 2 The parliamentary group “The Center Right”, not the commission for examining without prior objections with a decision-form of vigilance!

Revenge has replaced reconciliation