The gang that killed 3 police officers and 4 civilians in Poshnjë is eliminated; special forces from Tirana assist the local police The bandits had fired at the witnesses who saw the massacre scene and then at the police checkpoint. Four injured, including an 8-month-old child The gang that killed 3 police officers and 4 civilians in Poshnjë, Special forces from Tirana assist the local police Berat drowns in blood, 10 dead The bandits had fired at the witnesses who saw the scene of the massacre and then [?] at the police checkpoint. Four injured, including an 8-month-old child

The massacre does not blush Petro Koçi's face As in the final days of 1996, today Albania is also experiencing a state close to anarchy. In these shocking days, people are left unprotected from crime, while the state either is not able, or does not care, about the lives of its citizens. Moreover, it seems these are days of selection: criminals make the law and the honest person has to stay indoors and pray that nothing bad happens to him. What happened in Poshnjë, where a criminal gang, after executing a family in cold blood and firing at the police, killing some of its officers, once again demonstrated that the perpetrators of these crimes are truly strong. Strong not only against unprotected people, but also against the state. It seems that these days they feel safer than the state. Safer than the people of law. Safer than police officers and prosecutors. The latter, at least most of them, are not strong enough to confront criminals. One only has to remember how the files of major bank robberies are being closed, how the sentencing deadlines for criminal gangs are being dragged out, how the murder of Democratic MP Azem Hajdari and his escort continues unpunished, how thieves and murderers are being released from prison, how traffickers are making the law... According to the explanation given to the grave situation by the Minister of Public Order, Petro Koçi, these are consequences of the “illness of democracy”, although the truth is completely different. This is not a matter of a government paying for its lack of experience and incompetence, but of a power closely linked to crime. Freedom, which for democracy is the freedom of the honest person, has today acquired for the government the meaning of freedom for criminals. And since the criminal's freedom cannot be separated from his right to kill, it turns into freedom to kill. Likewise, the state, from a lawful order, turns into an order in which crime makes the law. Indeed, this is why Koçi, an innocent man, tries to convince us that the “illness of democracy” is what is choking us. He is the Minister of Order of a government that cannot govern, that cannot protect the citizen's life, that cannot find the murderers, that cannot put the bandits in prison, that cannot guarantee even the lives of its own police officers. This government, at best, is simply an accomplice of crime. At worst, it is a partner in it. Today we address Albanians not only as victims and as citizens, but as people trying to survive amid a criminal hell. And we remind the government that it cannot hide behind the alibi of the “illness of democracy.” It must answer for the blood spilled, for the lost lives, for the untroubled bandits, for the murdered police officers, for the terrorized citizens. Albanians do not need excuses, but security. And security begins with the state, with the police, with justice. Where these are missing, the face of power blushes. But not the face of Petro Koçi.

The Italian Parliament committee on the Schengen agreement disappointed by the government in Tirana “It is not an 'anti-gomon' law, in the true sense of the word, and for that reason we have felt somewhat deceived by this law and by the way it is being presented” Tirana deceived us with the “anti-gomon” law “It is not an “anti- gomon” law, in the true sense of the word, and for that reason we have felt somewhat deceived by this law and by the way it is being presented”

Yesterday, the opposition's statements before the European mission of the EP parliamentary group, Olof Werner, during the visit to Italy Freedom Pole close to the aspirations of Albanians ON PAGE 2

The National Alliance leader speaks about Kosovo, Italian economic interests in Serbia, as well as the statement by the Albanian interior minister “It would be good if the statement by the Albanian Interior Minister were removed; in the proper sense, they would be equal and would create, ideally and regarding the issue, foolishness! Limit?[?] there are no bounds” Fini: Serbia is not Italy's economic partner “It would be good if the statement by the Albanian Interior Minister were removed; in the proper sense, they would be equal and would create, ideologically and with regard to the issue, foolish- ness! Iletu?[?] there are no bounds”

The Italian parliamentarian discussed with Berisha the issues of law and order and the wounded in Albania Fabio Evangelisti: “In Albania we find a very complex law-and-order problem; for this we will inform the Italian government” “There is no will to establish order” Fabio Evangelisti: “In Albania we find a very complex law-and-order problem; for this we will inform the Italian government”

When crime bursts, the state plays referee When crime bursts, the state plays referee Zani fights with the prisoners ON PAGE 1

KORÇË - Unknown individuals threw a hand grenade into the yard of Xhevat Gjergji's house, which exploded at midnight. The explosive seriously damaged part of the home and injured the family’s three children, aged 7, 5 and 1, as well as 4 pupils and 3 cousins. Meanwhile, the Korçë police received a fax stating that 11 police officers and 16 civilians had been killed in Poshnjë. KORÇË - Unknown individuals threw a hand grenade into the yard of Xhevat Gjergji's house, which exploded at midnight. The explosive seriously damaged part of the home and injured the family’s three children, aged 7, 5 and 1, as well as 4 pupils and 3 cousins. Meanwhile, the Korçë police received a fax stating that the Korçë police were told that 11 police officers and 16 civilians had been killed in Poshnjë. Grenade explosion in a citizen's home ON PAGE 4

Today, 175 days since the murder of the leader of the Opposition However freely the world has been killed and caught, sometimes by the thought of the public, the person may have a face in the form of “anti-gomon”, in the true sense of the word. Iletu?[?]

Those responsible for the split from the school strike were found and Konobari was carried out Trade union struggle comes into the open ON PAGE 6

Automatic gunfire resumes, with very high firing positions in Hasi. ON PAGE 4

The former PS leader, the newcomer and, until then, his son Bogdani, are blocking the company ON PAGE 6

The relief measures for the unfortunate are now also in the hands of social insurance ON PAGE 5