VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS INTERVIEW/ The parent removes his son from “Çajupi” in Tirana; they threatened him with a knife “I TOOK MY SON TO PEZA, THEY WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL” The account of Artan Çelmeta, former police officer. He was forced to take the child out of school. The principal and the police offered no solution. The history of stabbings. Study: Students in class with weapons News Artan Çelmeta, a former police officer, was forced to remove his son from the “Andon Zako Çajupi” high school after the violence he was subjected to by other students. He complained to the school principal and the local police officer, but they offered him as a solution identifying the boys, or leaving the school, and after that he transferred his son to the high school in Peza. TIRANA ELTON QYNO The repeated conflicts and brawls in Tirana’s high schools have recorded victims and dozens of injured in the police annual statistics. The most recent case of stabbing involving two 17-year-old high school students has... ► continues on page 9 In photo: (left) Artan Çelmeta, the parent of the student who was removed from the “Çajupi” high school (right) “Andon Zako Çajupi” High School in Tirana

Editorial BY ARBEN RROZHANI The parties’ lions Yesterday Luan Rama, one of the officials of LSI, said that he would compete for the party’s “king”. By seeking to rival the chairman, the one who gives him the trough, the opportunity to appear in public as a political representative. Although there is euphoria for this democratic chance that a party like LSI gives a dog, it is hard to swallow the idea that the general secretary will compete with the chairman who appointed him, even though in the press statement Luan Rama shows enough maturity to play his own game, use his own people and take the share that belongs to him. And he will definitely take it, because the party’s “lion” will give him the bite. But not the “crown”, because, even if he is not called Luan, the head of LSI is the king, he leads, he commands, he takes the profits, that is, the lion’s share, and the others get what remains. And Luan Rama is neither the first nor will he be the last, in these ridiculous contests. At least for two decades. In 1991, the last communist president, the late Ramiz Alia used Namik Dokle, former journalist and director of the newspaper “Zëri i Popullit”. Then he was elected the first president in 1991 of the first pluralist parliament. Then there was... ► continues on page 4

KILLING OF THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER Handcuffs for the police officers, they did not protect Tahiraj The arrest, one week after the killing by Ilir Xhakja. The High Council of Justice takes over judge Tabaku’s files TIRANA Two police officers are being criminally prosecuted because on the day Chief Commissioner Adem Tahiraj was killed they did nothing to arrest the perpetrator of the crime, Ilir Xhakja. Fatmir Hoxha and Kastriot Gosturani are the two officers accused of “Abuse of duty”... ► Page 7 Fatmir Hoxha Kastriot Gosturani Fatmir Hoxha; Kastriot Gosturani

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