EXCLUSIVE/ The testimony of the thief who robbed the Minister of Labour’s house is revealed The 24-year-old from Tropoja recounts the theft plan EXCLUSIVE/ The testimony of the thief who robbed the Minister of Labour’s house is revealed “KSERA, THE EUROS IN THE DRAWER” The 24-year-old from Tropoja recounts the theft plan Arbër Shyqerukaj breaks down in front of the police: We knew it was the minister’s house. We watched for several days who went in and who came out. I opened the door with a card and blew the euros in nightclubs. Minister: Ask the police The news The young man Arbër Shyqerukaj told the police the entire mechanism of entering Minister Spiro Ksera’s home. The 24-year-old stated that by means of a card he managed to open the armored door of the minister’s residence, from where he stole a computer, a watch and several thousand euros. After the robbery, the euros were spent with friends in the capital’s nightclubs. In the photo: Minister Spiro Ksera TIRANA ELTON QYNO The testimony of 24-year-old Arbër Shyqerukaj has been revealed, who a few days ago managed to enter the home of the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Spiro Ksera, stealing from there an "IPAD", a wristwatch and a considerable sum believed to amount to several thousand euros. Shyqerukaj, also helped by two... Continued on page 6

Editorial BY ARBEN RROZHANI When even humanism becomes governmental Two chilling appeals for help made yesterday in the “Shqiptarja.com” newsroom would break anyone’s heart. A 64-year-old man from a remote village in Puka says he no longer has even flour for his 9-month-old baby. Another, the mayor of Shishtavec, says food reserves are running out. Dozens of television reports speak of thousands of residents threatened by isolation, lack of food reserves, power cuts and no assistance from state bodies. The government is, as always, insensitive to such natural disasters. Last year, when Shkodër was flooded, in order to sell energy Sali Berisha played the astronomer, talking about lunar movements that occur once in 100 years. Now he speaks of unprecedented winters. That is all he says and then leaves for Azerbaijan, in the company of Albanian and foreign traffickers, in a country with which we have only 98 thousand dollars, perhaps arms exports, which were sold to kill people. Businessmen who have made millions thanks to the corrupt government do the same. For example Rezart Taçi, who after squandering millions on football teams, while not paying the money for Albpetrol, now promises money for the victims of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Fine, it may be a tactic, after all it is the oil money he brings to Albania, to sell it to us 10 lek cheaper than his rivals. But announcements like the one Taçi himself spreads in the media, that he is on a working visit to the troubled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, distort people’s perception. What do Azerbaijanis and old weapons have to do with it! Where did we find them? And why did we find them precisely here, when a few hundred kilometers away we have a people crying out and appealing that they are dying of hunger, there among the mountains and the snow, abandoned by the government, but also by businessmen who have become one with the government and behave like it.

THE NEW DEPUTY MINISTERS Tomorrow Shpëtim Idrizi will hand the names to Prime Minister Berisha Abazi, Tana, Nurellari and Osmani are the most favored TIRANA JAKIN MARENA The government cabinet is now taking its full shape with the real inclusion of PDIU in governance through four deputy minister posts. They will be presented on Monday at Berisha’s table for approval... Page 5

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The snowbound man dies, thousands of residents isolated across the country Pages 8-9 The snowbound man dies, thousands of residents isolated across the country

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