‘There are photos with the Bloc. Rusmajli, of the nomenklatura’
President Bamir Topi rebels: Open the ‘files’. The Prime Minister accused him of being linked to the former persecuted
The backstage details of the government’s Council of Ministers decision are revealed. After 22 years Berisha excludes the State Protocol from the 100th anniversary of Independence. Officials: “We are not part of this.” The persecuted: Here are the Hoxhaists in power
News
Like never before, yesterday the President of the Republic erupted with accusations against the Prime Minister. He accused him of ties to the Bureau and of having photos with them, and of being a man who has the Party of Labour membership card. Among the president’s accusations was also Ilir Rusmajli, the son of Cajup Rusmajli
TIRANA
Of course I have an answer for the Prime Minister.” For the first time in his four-year history as President, Bamir Topi “exploded”. “The man who accuses (Sali Berisha) must give explanations about photos with members of the Political Bureau from the dictatorship era... This character has been a member of the Party of Labour since 1968, a Party Secretary, and for twenty-two more years tells fairy tales about communism and does not really atone for it while having a hand in the machinery, then you tell me where the truth lies” was the president’s outburst today...
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In the photo: Sali Berisha with the former Political Bureau member Simon Stefani and a facsimile of the membership card in the PPSH
‘The policeman asked me for sex to free my brother’
Speaks the daughter of the Kapshtica customs employee, Urim Gjata’s account of policemen who go with prostitutes
COMPLAINT FROM POGRADEC
‘The policeman asked me for sex
to free my brother’
Speaks the daughter of the Kapshtica customs employee,
Urim Gjata’s account of policemen who go with prostitutes
TIRANA
ARBEN RROZHANI
A 23-year-old woman from the city of Pogradec has denounced the head of order for asking her for sexual favors in exchange for closing the case of her brother, who was detained over a problem with the State Police. The daughter of the employee...
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In the photo:
Urim Gjata,
employee in the
Kapshtica
customs office
In the photo: Urim Gjata, employee at the Kapshtica customs office
To strike with Top
Editorial
BY ARBEN RROZHANI
To strike
with Top
The President of the Republic finally spoke. By accepting congratulations. Because until today he had not spoken. Even when he needed to say something, he said: “I speak with decrees,” “I speak with my silence.” Yesterday he struck with Top. Like never before. Straight to the heart of Evil, the still unsolved problem of Albanian society 22 years after the December ’90 movement. He spoke of communists who for more than two decades have been sold as democrats, former-Sigurimi spies who have seized power at all levels, while keeping up the pretense of being defenders of democracy and of the persecuted strata.
The head of state’s words were welcome, because they put a finger on the wound that is still bleeding and festering: the country’s break with the past and the communist figures who ruled the country by force and terror for 45 years and continued to do so under anti-communist suits in the following decade. Because Albania, unfortunately, even though it was the country with the bloodiest regime in the former Communist East, is among the few that still has not opened the files of the collaborators of the State Security, that has not removed from public office and decision-making the persecutors and their children. But words are not enough. They only stir Albanians even more. If yesterday the president struck with TOP by pointing his finger at Evil, his mission, if he truly has one, is to dismantle this Evil that hangs over us. By launching a genuine political campaign that would serve to dismantle this immoral political caste, which after 22 years of pluralism still thinks and acts as if under monism.
PDIU
The Cham are divided, Tahiri: Shpëtim Idrizi, Cham for 3 years
The Cham are divided, Tahiri:
Shpëtim Idrizi, Cham for 3 years
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Fraud
Stole the customers, handcuffs for Muho Asllani’s son
Stole the customers, handcuffs
for Muho Asllani’s son
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Interview
Ylli Canci: How I prepare the geniuses of mathematics
Ylli Canci: How I prepare
the geniuses of mathematics
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INVESTIGATORS
80 photos on Yllka Sheha’s phone, 2 suspects
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80 photos on
Yllka Sheha’s
phone
2 suspects
LUNCH.COM
Judge Ardian Dvorani: Meta’s trial ended without witnesses
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Judge
Ardian Dvorani:
Meta’s trial was
ended without witnesses
TESTIMONY
Police patrol, 200 names that go through control
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Police patrol,
200 names that go
through control
