INTERCEPTION Berisha’s ally asks to show it on “Fiks fare”. Çakuli: Come to the studio NEW VIDEO OF META The LSI leader admits filming the prosecutor The former deputy prime minister to “Shqiptarja.com”: The video was made by Spartak Braho. He met Prosecutor Bujar Sheshi before the court hearing. Prosecutor: I did my duty. Braho: We will release it today The news The leader of the LSI, Ilir Meta, yesterday, just two days after the Supreme Court verdict that cleared him of corruption, asked for a video to be broadcast on the show “Fiks fare”, which according to him implicates the leader of the Socialist Party, Edi Rama. TIRANA ARBEN ROZHANI The leader of the LSI, Ilir Meta, in a public statement to the media guaranteed that there is a video implicating the Socialist Party leader Edi Rama. Just two days after the Supreme Court decided to acquit him of corruption charges, Mr. Meta, speaking to journalists, asked the director of the show “Fiks Fare”, Filip Çakuli, to make available only two minutes of airtime to publish a video which, according to him, would dispel the “concern” that Socialist leader Rama has about pressure on the justice system. “If Edi really wants transparency and if Edi really wants to face all Albanians, all internationals, regarding what he calls the death of justice, what he calls pressure on the courts, prosecutors, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Intelligence Service, etc., I invite him, starting today and whenever he wishes, on the show “Fiks Fare”, to... continued on page 2

Poli Hoxha FBI experts have managed to recover the Prime Minister’s Office server, which had been erased at midnight on 21 January 2011, returning to the General Prosecutor’s Office the evidence showing what had circulated that day over the crowd... continued on page 5 NERANXI ... always one step ahead... Nachos and Mexican potato chips served with the corresponding sauces and cheese Address: Tirana-Durrës Highway, km 7, Yrshek, Tirana; Tel: 042 406 500; 042 406 501; Fax 042 405 502; e-mail: neranxi@neranxi.com; www.neranxi.com

Interview Page 7 John Withers: The break with Berisha, after Gërdec KEIDA KOSTRECI

BLOG/Periphery BY ALBA MALLTEZI So what is the students’ video from Vitrina? An incident at the private university “Vitrinat” inadvertently brings to light and into the public eye what really happens in some private realities of knowledge in Albania. After a seemingly trivial clash between a student and the university’s bodyguard, with the later involvement of the police, many shocking things are learned: 1- The presence of bodyguards in a university, who according to students’ testimonies serve to exert pressure over the various payments young people are required to make. 2- The high level of aggressiveness, not only from the bodyguard, but also from the teaching staff, who instead of finding the strength to calm the conflict and restore balance, become involved in debates with the police and the students. 3- In its press release, the university calls its students “delinquents” and describes the police action as being in defense of the “delinquents.” All of this remains to be verified, but so far it appears that the signs of violence are on the students and not on the bodyguard or the teaching staff. 4- Two other students have reported the violence of this university’s bodyguards and the pressure to buy expensive books. The students have also made recordings, which they handed over on CD as evidence to the police. In fact, the official statement of the Tirana police notes: “As material evidence, CD materials were seized, in which the unlawful acts of this citizen are shown through recordings. Articles 236/2 and 90 and 25 of the Criminal Code.” Here another problem arises. Will the recordings made by the students be taken as evidence by Albanian justice? In the video that the young people made, will those bodyguards be properly identified? Will the people filmed committing violence be taken into account by Albanian justice, or will they be considered as a manipulated CD, as if the bodies in the footage were actors and as if everything else were interpretation, editing, fabrication. Total confusion in the Albanian movement.

Page 9 Spahiu’s dismissal, yesterday’s debates in the Committee on Legal Affairs Page 4 21 January, Xhafa’s book: The laws violated by the Guard and the Police

Page 6 The movement of MPs across the districts, revolt in the leadership of the Socialist Party Page 10 World Bank report: Albania, the most at-risk country

Page 14 He harassed his girlfriend, police prevent a murder in the former Blloku Page 12 Ticket price hikes, citizens: We can’t afford 70 lek

EVIDENCE Filmmings for the perpetrators are back. Ambassadors: We support the prosecution