Photos show her with a rope and a gag in her mouth In the Mat River in Milot, swimmers find the lifeless body of a woman Police statement: She drowned herself, there are no signs of violence. But the images reveal another version. The victim is around 20 years old and still unidentified. The cameras arrive before the police and film the scene The news A woman’s body is found in mysterious circumstances and under suspicion in the Mat River. The body was found tied with a rope while near the victim’s mouth there was a rag. The Kurbin Police say it is a case of drowning; the corpse is still unidentified. In the photo: The girl found yesterday in the Mat River, where the ropes and the weights used to pull her out of the water can clearly be seen TIRANE HABJON HASANI The lifeless body of a woman, whose age is estimated at around twenty, was found yesterday near the bank of the Mat River in Milot. The victim was found near the place called “Ura me harqe” and investigators have still not been able to determine her identity. Some young people who were bathing in this river saw the victim’s body yesterday morning, which was... ▼ continues on page 10 In the photo: The girl found yesterday in the Mat River, where the ropes and the weights used to pull her out of the water can clearly be seen

Comment BY AFRIM KRASNIQI A reform for electoral reform More than a year after the end of the local elections in May, a court in Lezha has sentenced 8 commissioners to 4–8 months in prison. The accusation against them: they committed 10 falsifications in their polling station, voting for people who in fact were found to be abroad on election day. A year after the parliamentary elections of 28 June, the Fier court sentenced 9 commissioners from the village of Ruzhdije to prison and a fine. The accusation was almost the same: they had fictitiously inflated the votes, or abandoned their duty. In another case in Shkodra, the court fined several commissioners because their protest over the finding of 27 extra ballots ended with abandonment of duty. Episodes like these of “electoral crimes” are numerous in Albania. Only in the years 2001–2011 have we had at least 32 cases of court rulings imposing penalties on commissioners, all in peripheral voting areas, in remote villages and almost forgotten. When you read such news, despite concerns about electoral problems, from the outside one gets the impression of justice, the rule of law, and the Western model of behavior toward those who violate, less so than more than citizen sovereignty. From the inside we are dealing with a paradoxical situation: for the same criminal offense in the periphery, commissioners are punished, while in the main cities, including the capital, they are rewarded. For example, in the latest May elections 3 commissioners were accused in Tirana of abuse of office and forgery, but none was convicted: one continues... ▼ continues on page 6

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THE PUBLISHER’S ACCUSATIONS OF TEXTBOOKS The Ministry of Education is selling books from 1995 as new textbooks What is happening with pupils’ books. Vjollca Lubonja: They brought Europe’s stocks TIRANE ESMERALDA KETA Interference, monopolies and favoritism toward certain schoolbook publishing houses, but also methods to... ▼ Page 8

The result of the draw of 3 July 2012 played on TV Klan Read the winning numbers on page 12 Page 12

The list of phone calls and the winning balls Page 12

Brussels: Eight points that must be fulfilled Page 7

Silva Bino: Edi Rama has lost his pathos BY MIRA KAZHANI Page 14

THE NEWEST NEWS TV CHANNEL IN ALBANIA A1 REPORT! the origin of the news...

Pages 2-3 Weapons sale, MPs call for an investigation into Arben Imami

Page 6 “Berisha” government, after Marku now Xhepa rebels too

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