THREAT / Dashnor Sulaj fires a pistol from the VIP stand toward the pitch in Peqin MP FIRES AT REFEREE FShF: He was shot at. Police: No shots were fired Gun pressure on the referee of the Shkumbini-Flamurtari match. After the threat, Peqini wins on penalties. The weapon is confiscated. Police: It is a replica pistol. The MP is not escorted over the incident. He had previously assaulted referee Albano Janko News PD MP Dashnor Sulaj threatens the referee of the Shkumbini-Flamurtari match with a toy pistol, a match that ended 1-0 in favour of Peqini. Sula fired from the stands several times with the weapon, which drew the attention of the police. TIRANA Elton Qyno The PD MP in Peqin, Dashnor Sula, has once again become a protagonist of the scandals that occur in Albanian football. While he had previously tried to beat up the main referee of the match, this time he threatened the official from the VIP stand with a pistol... continues on page 8

INTERVIEW WITH ARBEN DYBELI Here is the middleman for Bossi’s diploma The Kristal representative in Italy also met Haxhinasto in Tirana. How diplomas are sold TIRANA Genc Kondi In order to obtain an Albanian diploma in exchange for payment, the son of Umberto Bossi used a mafia-like diploma network, organized on an international scale, whose leader has been in prison since... Pages 2-3

VISIT Arvizu, 4-hour dinner with Lulzim Basha The American ambassador at the mayor’s home Page 5

Interview of 1991 Pages 10-11 In the photo: Nexhmije Hoxha and a facsimile of the interview given to the French magazine “L’evenement du jeudi” published in the daily newspaper “Zëri i Rinisë” on 7 December 1991. Remzi Lani Nexhmije Hoxha: How I spent 360 million lek on coffee in Bllok An account for the French newspaper about Bllok and Enver. Remzi Lani speaks

Comment BY AFRIM KRASNIQI The state as private history Yesterday, 5 May, the Day of the Martyrs, was officially commemorated. Left and right competed to honour, each according to its preferred political conductor, “periods, events and individuals linked to history, war, resistance and public memory. As always, the difference remained between the perception that the parties have of the Second World War and its “fallen, and consequently, of every event and individual over the last 60-80 years who has been identified with the rival political sides of that war. Some honour the partisans who fell in the war, some honour the nationalists who fell in the war, but everyone does so with the greatest solemnity, with official ceremonies, before and beyond the statue and on the same date. It seems that when it comes to two parallel histories that compete, they speak and continue to fight even after seven or eight decades with just as much zeal as in the dramatic days of the 1940s. In this way, Albania has changed two political systems (the totalitarian communist system and the democratic one), the eyewitnesses who survived from the war period can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and yet the hour of judgement has remained the same, unmoved, as once determined in Përmet or Labinot, with the same anachronistic and vengeful, excluding and denigrating judgement... continues on page 5

MIRDITA Page 6 The right-wingers honour hero Biba after removing his monument

FORUM Pages 22-23 Monuments: No motels and swimming pool in Lezhë Castle

ELECTIONS Page 4 Electronic counting again in the hands of the CEC

VISIT ANALYSIS Page 7 BERISHA, THE MILLIONS FOR LOBBYING IN THE USA The large sums spent each year on Americans

Pages 13-20 RILINDASI MJEDA IN THREE LETTERS Ndre Mjeda’s manuscripts: How he put the Vigu thieves in order The three letters from 1898: He restored order in the village and stopped the bloodshed in Mirdita

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