EXCLUSIVE/ The conversation between the duty doctor and Eleni’s husband at the Military Hospital is revealed “ILIA NOT A TEAR FOR ELENI” Doctor: He wanted to know whether she had died What happened on the evening of February 2 at the hospital. The cold attitude of the murdered woman’s husband. The doctor’s suspicions after the 38-year-old asked to make sure of his wife’s death and rushed to get the body News The duty doctor at the Military Hospital who examined Eleni Basho’s body says that Ilia Basho remained very indifferent and cold when he was taken into the resuscitation room, where his wife’s lifeless body was lying. According to the doctor’s testimony, a few minutes after they left the room, Ilia asked him to carry out the procedures to collect the body. TIRANE ELTON QYNO Ilia Basho remained indifferent when doctors told him of the death of his 33-year-old wife Eleni Basho on the evening of February 2, 2012. He almost did not react at all; in fact, he accompanied them when the emergency duty doctor at the Military Hospital, identified by the initials M.S., took him in to see the lifeless body in the hospital’s resuscitation unit. After... Continued on page 8

EXCLUSIVE First photo from Germany of Aleksandër Peçi in hospital Page 9

Analysis BY AFRIM KRASNIQI The new pashas of Albania In 1991, when Albania took its first step toward a pluralist and democratic political system, the well-known anti-communist dissident Arshi Pipa would be skeptical of the new political class, writing that Albania had not changed, it was only creating new pashas. Accustomed over 4–5 centuries to a personal style of leadership, a social organization based on submission and obedience, the rule of a minority of individuals over the majority, and an Eastern state political behavior, where the strongest becomes the richest before becoming the most powerful. Such traits became clearly visible in the 1920s–30s in Albania and turned into a system during the personal rule of Hoxha and the Political Bureau. The establishment of the new system in 1990 could not completely change the tradition, the model and the mentality; it only created space and opportunities for their change. Today, after 20 years, Albania is divided into blue pashas and red pashas, two individuals who, in rotation, rule the lives of citizens, two Eastern models kept alive by armies of sycophants, servants and a system of unbroken personal bribes. A country that dreams of the EU and behaves in a Middle Eastern way, a country that talks about democracy and rejects every norm and value of it, a country whose standard of living is measured by the personal wealth of those who govern, a country where justice is absent, where the incapable rule in the majority, where moral and civic values have been replaced by the cults and myths of personal rule, where endless energy is poured into denigrating the Other, where the meaning and value have been lost... Continued on page 5

CELEBRATIONS IN LEZHË Municipality document, Sali Berisha excluded Topi State Protocol is violated, the president is denied the floor. Ambassadors boycott Page 2

“BB5”, Ermal’s sister: The relationship with Françeska, a game • Adelina: Vali, the manager I fell in love with Pages 13-20

Lorenc Bejko: I will show you the tumulus of Kamenica Page 23

“Topi”, meetings and invitations for PD deputies and figures Page 5

Hoxha’s family: The prosecution must find the archive thieves Page 9

Legalization, a list of 728 former owners, beneficiaries of 1.38 million euros Pages 10-11

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