The victim, the son of a former Palestinian leader 43-year-old Anwar Rizik, the financier of the cement factory, is killed with tritol at the door The police have requested the footage from the embassy’s cameras. The US promises: We will help. The investigation focuses on anything from competition over cement to foreign interference. How the little boy who wanted to take the book barely escaped News 43-year-old Anwar Fouad Rizik, originally from Palestine, was killed by tritol placed at the door of his house. His son narrowly escaped the attack, while the Albanian police are looking into several leads. Video material from the security cameras of the US Embassy has also been requested, since the house was very close by. The embassy replies: We do not comment on security matters TIRANA Mystery and suspicion were stirred yesterday within the police structures by the killing of 43-year-old Anwar Fouad Rizik, of Palestinian origin. The police are looking in several directions: first, possible property disputes in the cement factory where the economist himself... ► continues on pages 2-3 In the photo: (left) The house where the Palestinian citizen Anwar Fouad Rizik lived (right) The victim with one of the children

Comment BY ENTON ABILEKAJ Eel dinner Edi Rama was furious as he came out of the meeting with Ilir Meta at the Sheraton. Not with Meta, with the others, with those who supported him on January 21 to protest with stones and sticks for the overthrow of Ilir Meta after the release of the scandal tape recorded by Dritan Prifti. He was furious with those who believed him when he declared until two months earlier that he would never make a coalition with Ilir Meta, with those who protested the Supreme Court’s decision that declared him innocent. And he expressed this outrage by searching through the television cameras for the eyes of the dissatisfied or disappointed by this sudden change, which had been announced by Shqiptarja.com in the main headline already at dawn on Tuesday. Shqiptarja, by exposing the dinner in Lalzit Bay, disrupted the agenda of Rama, Meta and the parliamentary group of the PS. Socialist deputies, as always unprepared, were waiting for the meeting at midday, when they were informed that it had been postponed indefinitely. The meeting with Meta, planned during the week, had been brought forward to 12:00 on Tuesday. They had been exposed. With this sudden change of schedule, Rama confirmed the secret meeting at the villa in Lalzit Bay, in the villa that he himself had denounced from the Socialist Party podium. Then Meta invited him to the villa to eat some eel, but Rama did not respond to the bitter invitation, nor did he speak about the villa anymore. After 2 years, the eel entered the menu of the PS chairman. The main reason according to Rama is the president. He informed the parliamentary group after the meeting with Nano that he would meet Berisha and Meta, but also the other parties, to discuss the issue of a consensual president. The group did not speak as usual, This was... ► continues on page 7

New pay for educators in 30 categories. Government: We will no longer pay for state schools GOVERNMENT DECISION TIRANA ESMERALDA KETA Salaries are increasing for around 35 thousand pre-university education teachers across the country. According to a decision approved yesterday at the government meeting, the principals of secondary and 9-year schools and the... ► Pages 8-9

How to recognize unusual moles Medicines: Their friends and enemies ► Pages 13-20

► Page 12 Bossi’s diploma, Spiro: I didn’t sign it, it’s fake

► Page 10 CEZ, lawsuit against the Albanian government, losses 515 million USD

► Page 22 QSA, the reform that destroyed the scientific institutes

► Page 4 Rama-Arvizu: The President in the first round with 84 votes

► Page 7 May 9, Etore Sekui brings together Topi, Berisha and Rama

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