SECRET LETTER / The former minister’s denunciation to prosecutor Ina Rama DRITAN PRIFTI: PROTECT ME MP: They are threatening me with death The whistleblower in the corruption video scandal is asking for physical protection. It was taken away after his testimony at the prosecutor’s office. A year earlier he accused Berisha and Meta if anything happened to him and his family The news Former minister Dritan Prifti has received several death threats to his life through phone calls and messages. The threats came after the publication of the latest video, and he has requested protection from the General Prosecutor’s Office TIRANA ARBEN RROZHANI Former minister Dritan Prifti has again been threatened with death through phone calls and messages on his mobile number. The repeated incident happened a few days ago and once again the MP, within a year, turned to the General Prosecutor’s Office, requesting physical protection for his life. In a response by mobile phone to “Shqiptarja.com” and later distributed to the press, Prifti says: “I am very sorry for a false and abusive article in Rilindja Demokratike today (yesterday). This newspaper has slandered and lied about everything it has written, from beginning to end. I wrote to the General Prosecutor a highly secret letter about some personal concerns regarding my safety, which I asked to be investigated. I have received phone calls and text messages with death sentences and I am very worried.” But unlike the real concern for his physical safety, the newspaper “Rilindja Demokratike”, the official organ of the PD, published an article yesterday, stating that Dritan Prifti had sent a letter some time ago to chief prosecutor Ina Rama, who, according to RD, Prifti had paid millions of lek. The article said the letter proves Prifti’s cooperation with the PS... continues on page 5

“RILINDASI” / They had been thrown into the basements of the Prime Minister’s Office Pages 13-20 In the photo: Facsimiles of some of the pages with manuscripts and sketches, which they did not want to exist. The manuscripts had been kept in the basements of the Prime Minister’s Office since Teodor Keko’s death in 2002 The manuscripts from Teodor Keko’s last months are uncovered BY ADMIRINA PEÇI In the photo: Facsimiles of some of the pages with manuscripts and sketches, which they did not want to exist. The manuscripts had been kept in the basements of the Prime Minister’s Office since Teodor Keko’s death in 2002

Editorial BY ANILA BASHA The two realities of my Albania Yesterday, on January 21, I saw two Albanias. It was sad. I followed live from the “Vaçe Zela” Theater in Lushnje the choir of the Opera and Ballet Theater, brought specially from Tirana to perform for the 92nd anniversary of the opening of the Congress of Lushnje in my city; in my birthplace; the professional troupe of soloists, artists, conductors and orchestrators, the troupe of dancers of this institution, were singing live in front of the prime minister, the speaker of parliament, the minister of culture and then the local authorities of the city... I returned to the newsroom. I was watching the day’s developments. Through the internet, not live, I followed the funeral music being played in the Black Box hall of the Academy of Arts. The first anniversary of the death of the four protesters on the boulevard “Dëshmorët e kombit” was being commemorated. Then I returned to the prime minister’s speech, as if he were a historian. He spoke in the “Vaçe Zela” theater about the merits of the Congress of Lushnje and the government of Sulejman Delvina. He spoke about the contribution of every patriotic delegate to that congress; he highlighted the values of that glorious meeting, which according to him, together with the League of Prizren and the declaration of Independence in Vlora, in the prime minister’s view, were the three great historical events that laid the foundations of the Albanian democratic state. — Faced with the two Albanias I saw yesterday: coldness. Very cold in the hall of the ‘Vaçe Zela’ theater; even colder in the Black Box hall of the Academy of Arts. I went back again to the footage in Tirana: I painfully followed Edi Rama’s speech, trembling to the core, in a Migjeni-like style conveying the suffering of the four families who had lost their loved ones; a shuddering speech to the... continues on page 2

FOOTAGE The scandal deepens over the damage to the Prime Minister’s Office equipment that filmed January 21 TIRANA The scandal of the disappearance of video evidence from the central server of the Prime Minister’s Office is deepening even further. The experts from the scientific laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in America, in their response sent to the Albanian prosecutor’s authorities, have not only... continues on page 6 In the photo: Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, Gjergj Lezha In the photo: Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, Gjergj Lezha

Page 2 Commemorations for January 21: the family members say: We want justice Page 9 Expensive drugs in Tirana: consumers, politicians and artists

Page 11 The ZMK study in 2008: city buses generate 40 million dollars in turnover per year Page 3 The Lushnje Congress song: TOB brings it for the first time

BLOG/Periferi BY ALBA MALLTEZI The fatal mistake after January 21, 2011 Page 3

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