Durrës

Albanians travel so much by ferry: 207809 people in 7 months, a sign of stability PAGE 11

The Prime Minister announces even stricter measures against the trafficking of clandestine migrants

Meta: War fleet ships and helicopters in the fight against clandestine migration • Neighboring states must sign readmission agreements for clandestine migrants coming from their territories PAGE 2 In the photo: A group of inflatable boats and the vessels of the Albanian-Italian forces fighting trafficking. According to Prime Minister Ilir Meta

NEWS

79 KURDISH CLANDESTINE MIGRANTS CAUGHT, HIDDEN ON THE HIMARË COAST At 3 a.m. on Monday, police caught 79 Kurds in Himarë, including 18 children and 12 women GREECE STOPS 334 KURDISH AND AFGHAN CLANDESTINE MIGRANTS Finds them on the island of Crete; they had boarded a ship to take them to Italy ITALIANS CATCH 110 MIGRANTS AT THE ITALIAN-SLOVENIAN BORDER They were Bosnians, Turks, Moldovans, Algerians and Yugoslavs PAGE 2

The commissioner cannot answer our question; all the facts are true

Commissioner Nikollë Vatnika responds: You are attacking the police What remains is to correct this police hysteria, predatory, unlawful and unprofessional, which has erupted at Police Station 3 PAGE 2

LOANS & HOUSING

Greek housing loan: construction work on the houses begins in September 2.2 billion lekë for apartment buildings in Tiranë, Durrës, Gjirokastër, Fier, Mallakastër, Vlorë PAGE 7

Dedja: Dangi, Tirana’s chief construction inspector, should be dismissed

Permits issued after 1 July will be reconsidered or revoked PAGE 6

Parliament: No pardons for killers — Berisha: Never mind, I’ll pardon the killers

CRIME Former President Berisha pardoned the sentences of killers as well, in violation of Parliament’s amnesty in April ’97 Parliament: No pardons for killers — Berisha: Never mind, I’ll pardon the killers • Dozens of individual decrees by the former president pardon killers • By an anti-law decree, he amnestied Gaxhai and Altin Dardha, who went on to commit killings every day throughout the country • The aim: to make the country as ungovernable as possible through crime Read on page 3: Here are those whom Parliament did not pardon and those whom Sali Berisha pardoned / the articles of the law and the decree

ELECTIONS

POÇI: THE POLICE WILL PROTECT THE PEOPLE’S FREE VOTE AT ALL COSTS It is the police’s own duty to purge its ranks of blue uniforms who collaborate with crime PAGE 5 GOVERNMENT DECIDES: SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR MINERS WITH OVER 1 YEAR OF UNDERGROUND WORK 1395 unemployed miners will benefit under the law PAGE 8