The burning of the police station, preparations to attack the battalion What is in Delvinë’s black dossier? - Meetings of political forces and local government. - When was the public salvation committee created, and how did Arbër Qilimi come to head it? - Who were the committee members? - Pressure on local government bodies and the bypassing of the district defense headquarters. - How were the cadets from the Police Academy, who came to re-establish the police station, received? - Was anyone from the state armed forces killed in Delvinë? - Were there really bombings by aircraft and toxic substances?

The Council of Europe recognizes Berisha’s important role in political developments in Albania. Turkish President Suleyman Demirel invites the chairman of the Democratic Party Thousands of residents of the capital gave their full support to the Democratic Party in its definitive break with the Parliament of gangs. At a grand rally in the capital, Tirana’s residents welcomed the Democratic Party National Council’s political decision as an act that definitively marked the separation of political pluralism and Albanian democracy from their ultimate destruction and reduction to a democratic caricature of pluralism. The capital’s residents, at last night’s demonstration in “Skënderbej” Square, firmly supported the Democratic Party’s action, while expressing their disagreement and protest against all the ongoing violations of democracy, the installation of state political mafia, the legalization of state corruption and smuggling, and the consolidation of state crime. The capital’s residents’ full support for the Democratic Party’s political decision clearly shows that the National Council took a just action in response to the entire course of state violence, corruption and smuggling established in government by Fatos Nano’s regime. Tirana’s demonstration in support of the definitive break with Parliament shows that the Democratic Party has correctly understood the electorate’s messages: it can no longer tolerate the Parliament of gangs, corruption, state crime and organized crime. The Parliament of the violation of democracy. Tirana’s support is a great advantage for the DP to communicate with the electorate, which has now approved the Democratic Party’s decision. But this full and enthusiastic support from the electorate for the DP also makes it easier to communicate with international actors about the rightness of the political decision. The enthusiasm and demonstration of the capital’s residents in support of the DP and its decision showed that the main force behind the political tension and the electorate’s discontent in the streets is the Fatos Nano government, with its stance. Fatos Nano’s regime is chiefly responsible for smuggling, political and state crime, corruption, and the deepening crisis that is increasing the electorate’s discontent and turning it into anger. With its decision, the Democratic Party showed that it stands with the Albanian electorate and has understood its messages: not to become complicit in the violation of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights, and not to serve as a façade for the most corrupt government on the continent. The long-standing distancing of Albanians from Europe’s most corrupt Clique and their joining with the Democratic Party to defend democracy and Albania from the installation of the dictatorship of the political and state mafia, and from the establishment of the organized-crime regime, is the clearest proof that the electorate wants to get rid as soon as possible of this whole calamity hanging over its head. By taking the historic step of definitively breaking with the Parliament of gangs, the Democratic Party now has Parliament collapsed and Albania’s cities, a shared understanding with Albanians, protests and strikes, as well as the free vote, to remove the Clique from its usurpation of this country’s institutions. The enthusiasm of Tirana’s residents yesterday in support of the DP’s historic step is the best guarantee of the swift return of democracy, law, order and honesty through free and fair elections, which are now imminent. The swift and shameful end of the gangs, masked men, smugglers, terrorists, etc., who have usurped the institutions and hold Albania’s democracy hostage, cannot be stopped by anyone. SH. PEPOSHI Tens of thousands of citizens at the fiery rally in “Skënderbej” Square. The capital’s residents support the Democratic Party’s decision to abandon the Parliament of crime and corruption Yesterday, at Skënderbej Square, Tirana

Chronicle of the year of state crime “I don’t know whether there is an exact date for holding it. The EU will meet on Monday to decide” Kinkel has no information about the donors’ conference The German foreign minister’s statement comes three days after news from European chanceries that the Donors’ Conference, which had been scheduled a year earlier to take place on 25 July in Tirana, had been cancelled ON PAGE 4 ON PAGE 9

The chairman of the PBDNJ appears dissatisfied with the coalition ON PAGE 2 On smuggling, the Socialists are united Nanos’s opponents, a bluff

The minister declares that smuggling will continue alongside the Socialists’ rule: “The effects of the fight against smuggling will be seen in 5–7 years” According to the Finance Minister, Bleta will not leave the post of Director General of Customs and will not be held accountable for Customs’ failure to meet the target ON PAGE 4

Yesterday, at Skënderbej Square, Tirana