SUNDAY, 6 August 2000 • Page 3 • 370 Editor-in-chief FATOS MAHMUTAJ Editorial office: Rruga e Dibrës, 370, Tiranë • Tel. and Fax 42 307 • 41 646 • 685835 For advertising and announcements: Tel. 42 697 • 41 171 The information in the previous issue about the profit margin on fuel
Journalist injured on 21 January: On television they told me I had been shot at close range, not by the Guard
OPINION BY Fatos Mahmutaj A reminder about Dule and the butcher of Peshkëpi “Soldier, what’s going on there? Load the gun!” But instead of his real soldier, someone else replied: Load it, load it, because it’s empty. Only a few days ago, I made the law myself in your parliament t
INTERVIEW WITH JOURNALIST FATOS MAHMUTAJ, INJURED BY THE REPUBLICAN GUARD 21 January killed 4 people but also the media and justice The testimony of former ABC News journalist Fatos Mahmutaj, how the injury was hidden and the pressure not to tell the truth, from prosecutors to do
Here is the first witness for the Investigation Bureau Fatos Mahmutaj: I am ready to tell my story to the Bureau, the evidence has been ignored Publication of Vetting is blocked in the Official Gazette, entry into force delayed BY ADRIATIK DOÇI ▶ P. 2-3
“FOR TWO YEARS I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE TERRORISTS’ NEIGHBORHOOD IN BRUSSELS” Fatos Mahmutaj in the Molenbeek neighborhood, Brussels Interview with the journalist: My neighbor, Salah, the perpetrator of the Bataclan massacre. Here is why extremists are born in this neighborhood
“The Wonder”, the victims’ families sue the prosecutor’s office 21 JANUARY ...an unfinished story... ABC News journalist Fatos Mahmutaj, injured by the use of firearms by the Republican Guard FATMIR XHAFAJ KOSTA BARJABA (In the photo:) PS deputy Fatmir Xhafaj. The cover of the bo
Analysis BY Fatos MAHMUTAJ Llalla’s primitive revenge Adriatik Llalla, the acting Albanian chief prosecutor, showed his revenge with maximum severity by sending two of Saimir Tahiri’s subordinates to prison. continues on page 4
Editorial BY ANILA BASHA From Fatos to Ora News And there was no doubt. This is the year of journalists. Declared such by others, not by Albanians. But it seems that for Albania, it had considerable meaning. Let us take things in order. And who could speak today more than jou
EXCLUSIVE/ THE VICTIM’S BROTHER SPEAKS ► Page 6 In the photo: (left) Vladimir Muça, brother of the victim Fiqiri Muça (right) Nazime Visha and Fiqiri Muça Fiqiriu’s brother: I haven’t spoken to him since he kidnapped Nazime Vladimir Muça: I don’t part with my wife Lutfije; they