Klosi’s bodyguard caught with 419 kg of drugs

The head of SHISH involved in drug smuggling on page 2

Another “Otranto”: 59 missing

A speedboat carrying undocumented migrants that had set off from Vlora sinks

This is how the state mafia eliminates people

By Sami NEZA Prime Minister Ilir Meta yesterday summoned the heads of oil-trading companies, continuing the campaign to convince public opinion that he was right to dismiss Minister Zef Preçi. They were the same businessmen who for two months had protested the government’s decision to monopolize the fuel trade, leaving it in the hands of five companies, three of which belonged to Meta’s government officials on page 3

Why is the government afraid of early elections?

By Arben CEJKU When you listen to the news on the state media and read the party newspapers of the left-wing coalition, the first impression you get is that you are in a safe country, one that is advancing ahead of all the countries around it, producing prosperity, security, freedom, peace and justice. It is almost the same picture that communist propaganda once created for all those who had never seen Albania on page 5

Misuse of USD 400,000 from the Ministry of Labour

“One Stop Shop,” the project that went bankrupt because of abuses by Çeco’s administration on page 9 A scene from one of the Otranto tragedies

OSCE: Government should reconsider the CEC

The US ambassador considers the opposition’s concerns serious on page 3

The government’s election code: vote manipulation

The Democratic Party leadership met on page 5

“PAD oil”: an old Interpol charge

on page 4

Lawyers: “The perpetrators of the murders are bodyguards in the PS”

The Ura Vajgurore massacre, an unpunished crime on page 7

Today, 487 days since the murder of the December Leader

The government is protecting Azem Hajdari’s killers Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and his successor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The government of the former communists, which let the criminals who took the December Leader’s life go free and unpunished, shows Albanians that it has been and remains on the side of the killers, who have names, but are untouched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate this fact under any circumstances. The government must either capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari

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