Police: The bosses of the trafficking of women are eliminating one another DURRËS — Have the people from Tirana got rid of the coast themselves? Three killed and one wounded within a few minutes; the crime of the “General Bath” massacre erupted in Durrës in the style of a “charge, with a concentrated strike.” The Prefecture Police Directorate said that on Thursday, at around 21:00, near the place known as “Mulliri i Bullgarit,” close to the “Evropa” disco, on the Krishbull-Xhafzotaj stretch of the Durrës-Tirana road, automatic “Kalashnikov” fire was unleashed from a vehicle at a BMW passenger car bearing license plate TR 0612 E. PAGE 6

TIRANË — A man was arrested on Friday in Fier, accused of being one of the most active participants and the organizer of the armed insurrection in mid-September ’98 in Tiranë. Sources from the General Prosecutor’s Office report that the man, Rasin Lumeshi, 32, born in Tropojë and resident in Fier, was arrested on Friday on charges of committing the criminal offense of actively participating in collaboration in the violence exercised against the main state institutions in Tiranë on September 14, ’98, and of organizing it, an offense provided for under Article 221 of the Criminal Code. Lumeshi, the first to attack the entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office, was captured breaking its main door while holding an anti-tank weapon in a firing position. He later directed and organized the crowds, the aforementioned sources explain, adding that the prosecution has data, evidence, and filmed footage for all of this. According to the same sources, Lumeshi was also accused of trafficking women in ’94, while currently he is a partner in a luxury hotel in the city of Fier. He is the second person arrested today and the fourth over the past two days. Since the investigation into the armed insurrection began, the number of people placed under security measures on this charge has reached more than 35. All those arrested or declared wanted are accused of organizing the armed insurrection, actively participating in the violence exercised against state institutions, and being armed persons, as established by film footage or photographs, the prosecutors in this case emphasized.

Qosja: We are pleased with this concept presented by Albania Prime Minister Majko yesterday with the Albanian academic Rexhep Qosja. Photo: M. Xhufka Kosovo on the brink of an explosion PAGE 3 Prime Minister Majko yesterday with the Albanian academic Rexhep Qosja. Photo: M. Xhufka