The Sunday Times e Londrës raportoi këtë të diel se Nigel Farage, i konsideruar si ideatori dhe frymëzuesi i Brexit dhe njëkohësisht drejtues i partisë “Reforma”, ka përfituar financiarisht nga një shtetas britanik që është dënuar nga drejtësia amerikane për mashtrim në internet. Sipas kësaj gazete, këto përfitime nuk janë deklaruar nga Farage në kuadër të hyrjes së tij si deputet i ri në Parlamentin britanik.
Gazeta shkruan se George Cottrell, i dënuar në 2017 në Shtetet e Bashkuara për mashtrim dhe aleat i hershëm i Farage, e ka asistuar atë në çështje që lidhen me sigurinë dhe rrjetet sociale. Po ashtu, ai i ka vënë në dispozicion edhe një pronë me qira me vlerë të lartë për të qëndruar. Sipas raportimit, Farage kishte detyrimin t’i deklaronte këto përfitime të marra gjatë 12 muajve para se të bëhej deputet, ashtu siç e kërkojnë ligji dhe procedurat parlamentare, për shuma deri në 300 stërlina.
Pasi u zgjodh deputet, Farage regjistroi në Parlament 9.254 stërlina të mbuluara nga Cottrell për një udhëtim në Belgjikë në prill të 2024. Më pas, ai deklaroi edhe 15.276 stërlina të tjera, sërish nga i njëjti person, për një udhëtim me avion brenda Amerikës në dhjetor të 2024. Ndërkohë, Farage, partia e të cilit renditet pak mbi Laburistët në sondazhet e opinionit publik, po hetohet edhe në një tjetër çështje parlamentare që lidhet me një donacion prej 5 milionë stërlinash të dhuruara nga një investitor britanik i kriptomonedhave në 2024, të cilat ai nuk i kishte deklaruar.
Zëdhënësi i Farage i ka hedhur poshtë akuzat e publikuara nga The Sunday Times, duke deklaruar se kjo nuk është befasuese për një gazetë që kishte mbështetur ardhjen e Laburistëve në pushtet në zgjedhjet e fundit parlamentare. Sipas së përditshmes prestigjioze britanike, George Cottrell mund të ketë interes nga lidhja me Farage, pasi synon të marrë falje nga presidenti Trump për dënimin e dhënë në Amerikë, në një kohë kur zëvendëspresidenti amerikan është takuar me Farage në Shtetet e Bashkuara.
The Sunday Times kujton se në vitin 2016 George Cottrell arriti një marrëveshje me prokurorët amerikanë duke pranuar një akuzë për mashtrime në internet. Ai kreu tetë muaj burg pasi u kishte ofruar agjentëve federalë, të paraqitur si trafikantë droge, t’u pastronte para në dark web.
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Në Camp Film City në Prishtinë, karabinierët italianë dhe ushtarët çekë të angazhuar në Njësinë e Specializuar Shumëkombëshe (MSU), në kuadër të misionit të KFOR-it të udhëhequr nga NATO, kanë kryer stërvitje me helikopterë.
KFOR bëri të ditur se ky ushtrim synonte të rriste gatishmërinë operacionale, si edhe të përmirësonte bashkërendimin mes ekuipazheve ajrore dhe personelit në terren.
Në kuadër të këtyre aktiviteteve u realizuan transporti i personelit, evakuimi i trupave dhe ushtrime të bazuara në skenarë emergjentë, me qëllim ruajtjen e gatishmërisë operacionale dhe të ndërgjegjësimit situativ të personelit të KFOR-it.
Sipas KFOR-it, këto stërvitje dëshmojnë angazhimin e pandërprerë të misionit për të siguruar një ambient të qetë dhe të sigurt për të gjithë qytetarët që jetojnë në Kosovë.
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Një ngjarje e mundshme kriminale është parandaluar në Vaun e Dejës nga Policia e Shkodrës, e cila arrestoi një 38-vjeçar që po transportonte një minë me telekomandë. Ndërkohë, një person tjetër i dyshuar si bashkëpunëtor është shpallur në kërkim.
Aksioni, i koduar “Remote”, u realizua nga shërbimet e Komisariatit të Policisë së Vaut të Dejës, në bashkëpunim me Sektorin për Hetimin e Krimeve të Rënda të DVP Shkodër, pas informacioneve të marra në rrugë operative.
Sipas të dhënave të policisë, në orët e para të mëngjesit, në fshatin Stajkë, u ndalua për kontroll automjeti me të cilin po qarkullonte i dyshuari. Gjatë verifikimit, punonjësit e policisë zbuluan dhe sekuestruan një minë me telekomandë, të lidhur me një aparat celular dhe të përshtatur për shpërthim nga distanca.
Si provë materiale u sekuestruan edhe automjeti, një maskë, si dhe dy telefona celularë.
Pas përfundimit të veprimeve të para hetimore, u arrestua shtetasi Euglen Buraku, 38 vjeç, banues në Spitallë, Durrës. Po ashtu, në kërkim u shpall E. P., 34 vjeç, banues në Durrës, i dyshuar si bashkëpunëtor në këtë rast.
Nën drejtimin e Prokurorisë, hetimet po vazhdojnë për të sqaruar destinacionin dhe qëllimin e transportimit të lëndës plasëse, si edhe për të identifikuar persona të tjerë që mund të kenë lidhje me këtë ngjarje.
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The court this afternoon issued its decision on the 19 citizens and young men arrested during the mass protest against the government. After a lengthy hearing and heated arguments between the parties, the judges rejected the prosecution’s requests for jail detention, leaving the vast majority of those detained free.
In a statement to the media immediately after the hearing ended, one of the defense lawyers outlined the security measures imposed, describing it as a partial victory, while insisting that the arrests in flagrante were entirely political and unlawful.
“For the 19 people arrested at the protest, the prosecution initially requested ‘prison arrest’ for 3 of them, and then changed its position by requesting ‘house arrest’ for one of them. For all the others, it requested the measure of ‘reporting obligation.’ After lengthy debates, the court decided that only two people would remain under the measure of ‘house arrest,’ specifically the citizens with the surnames Bardhi and Gega,” the lawyer said.
All the others were left under the measure of “reporting obligation” (some required to report once a month and others once every two months).
Although the court deemed the arrest lawful in principle in order to continue the proceedings, the defense voiced strong objections to the court’s reasoning, saying that the police acted without legal criteria and in a disproportionate manner in the square.
“The court considered the arrest lawful in principle for procedural purposes, but from our professional and constitutional point of view, for the overwhelming majority of these young men the arrest was completely unlawful and without any concrete evidence,” the lawyer concluded before reporters.
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A fire broke out around midday this Sunday in an olive-growing area in Drizë, in the municipality of Fier.
Immediately after residents raised the alarm, firefighting services arrived at the scene and are working to bring the blaze under control, while its spread is being aided by the wind.
Local residents have also joined the operation, helping firefighters by using improvised tools.
According to residents, although the fire is far from the inhabited area, the intervention of firefighting vehicles is facing difficulties because of the rough terrain and the lack of roads in the plots.
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Prime Minister Edi Rama has shared a reaction on Facebook, in which he addresses protesters he calls “flamingos,” saying that the civic protest, in his view, has strayed from its original aim and been taken over by political actors and groups with other interests.
According to Rama, the government has closely followed the concerns raised by citizens and the protest began on real grounds, but later, he says, it came under the influence of those he describes as “failures,” “wolves” and “jackals,” who used it as a political tool.
Full message:
Dear flamingos🦩
This sad video-postcard was made for those among you who 20 years ago were children or still embryos in their mother’s womb;
for those who, even though they were old enough at the time, have left behind the Albania and Tirana of those days so far that today they seem either never to have existed at all, or as if the memory of yesterday is a burden preventing them from demanding more from today;
and for those who left Albania and Tirana, but who lately return for a quick visit and a couple of errands, on the one hand vacations in the new Albania of a reality transformed through reforms, work, effort and colossal patience, and on the other hand taking to the streets for a “new Albania”; an Albania of magic keys, in whose name it is demanded that the electoral contract with the people be violated by motorcades of cars draped in red and black.
It is preached that democratic institutions must be targeted and “liberated” by force like enemy fortresses.
Violence against the people’s elected representatives is justified, and they are to be prevented from entering and leaving their workplace in the Albanian Parliament.
And a self-proclaimed “people” in the streets decides who is a patriot and who is a traitor, who goes to prison, who is lynched and who is praised.
My aim is not to make you feel that you were wrong, even though your protest was reduced to an enlarged copy of the ugly protests of the political swamp. Because no, you were not wrong at all when you felt trapped in problems bigger than your power to solve them, and found one another with your frustrations and your hopes.
No, you are not wrong even today if you feel good identifying as a large community of people from all walks of life, with the birds, with nature, with the land, with the homeland, with Albania.
No, you are not wrong for wanting to rise above ordinary everyday life and demand much more from this country than has been achieved so far.
This is not only right. It is necessary.
And however strange it may sound to you, I am grateful to you for the light of hope and alarm that you lit with the energy of your peaceful protest, though that is a longer conversation for a day soon.
It is your right to ask for much more from life in this country than what has been achieved in the span of time between the coffin that 20 years ago held a dead man inside and the coffin that last night, on the same boulevard, contained the abyss between you and those who placed the light of your protest inside a coffin.
Twenty years ago, the coffin was used to climb the steps of the prime minister’s fortress and the dead man was turned into cannon fodder, striking its gate as in the Middle Ages, in order to bring down the government. Last night, meanwhile, the coffin reappeared as the entirely predictable result, for me, of an orchestrated effort to break the steps of this country’s further ascent, turning upside down an Albania finally raised to its feet after a long period on its knees, politically, economically and internationally.
Yes, it was entirely predictable for me. Because Albania is neither the first nor the last country where the trained hands of enemies and ill-wishers of democratic societies (whose destinies are tied to the European Union or the United States) step in, seize control and do everything they can to derail, to the detriment of those societies, protests that arise as an expression of sincere feelings from the belly of society, not from international conspiracies.
Naturally, those hands take control of a protest also thanks to the zeal of the louts every country has, and who here are well known to everyone, the loudmouths and their friends, who thought the boulevard had turned to yogurt and immediately surrounded your protest like hyenas around a doe. After the initial confusion, the tired wolves of the Road of Hope also entered the game and, to disguise themselves as patriots, boosted the trade in qeleshes in the middle of the heat. And when you began to drift away from the boulevard, creating empty spaces for the “200,000-strong” photographs of the international media, the “diaspora” jackals from Prishtina and Tetova also mobilized, seeing in the boulevard the long-awaited hearth for the gasoline of their hatred toward official Tirana, where they have found no space and will find no space to develop their national-folkloric delusions. Because Tirana is the capital of the Europe of the Balkans, not the capital of nationalist-communist, nationalist-Islamist or nationalist-isolationist illusions.
Of course, those hands and those forces that have mixed themselves into the coffin stew do not control one another or, more precisely, they have extreme incompatibilities with one another. But no incompatibility matters to them today, because today they are united, some consciously and many others blindly, by the dark aim of stopping Albania and turning it backward, right in the final kilometers of the centuries-long road toward the sun that rises where it sets. But this too is not a conversation for today, especially since you have nothing to do with them.
Today there is one main thing to say. That protest is no longer yours, dear flamingos! You have become, without your authorization and against your will, the alibi for a coffin brought back onto the boulevard as the image of the curse that has followed Albania since 1912; always using the homeland, the flag and sovereignty as raw material to feed hatred among Albanians and as the nails of punishment that, more than once, have locked this country into the abyss inside that coffin.
But this sad video-postcard is by no means a call for you to give up the feelings and thoughts that brought you together. No, this is only a friendly invitation for you never, in any way, to give up your memory. Because history is not a burden we escape by casting it out of our attention, but the compass that does not allow us to lose our way.
Whoever forgets where they come from no longer knows where they are going.
Love❤️
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Through a letter addressed to the embassies of friendly countries in Tirana, the protest organizers condemned the intervention of the State Police at the July 2 gathering, describing the use of force as disproportionate and in violation of citizens’ constitutional rights.
In their response, they also refer to the monitoring carried out by the Albanian Helsinki Committee, which identified concerns related to the handling of the protest and raised suspicions of the police exceeding their authority.
The statement also calls for an independent investigation into every suspected case of police violence, as well as the release of the protesters arrested during the gathering. The organizers also express concern over reported checks on citizens seeking to join the next protest, describing them as forms of pressure and intimidation.
At the same time, they call on the State Police to ensure the smooth conduct of the next protest and to avoid any action that could lead to an escalation of the situation. They also urge citizens to preserve the peaceful nature of the protest and invite them to take part in the upcoming mobilization, reiterating the demand for the release of the arrested protesters.
Full statement by the Coordinating Group:
Protest is a fundamental constitutional right and remains one of the most important instruments citizens have at their disposal to hold those in power accountable. Any attempt to obstruct, suppress, or intimidate the exercise of this right through force undermines democracy and basic freedoms.
We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by the State Police against protesters during the July 2, 2026 protest, including the use of tear gas without warning, the pushing and beating of protesters, as well as the use of violence against restrained individuals. These are unacceptable actions and run counter to the standards of a democratic state.
According to monitoring carried out by the Albanian Helsinki Committee, serious concerns were identified over the management of the protest, raising strong suspicions that the State Police exceeded its authority and used force in violation of the law and international standards for the protection of human rights. It is also clearly emphasized that the actions of a limited number of individuals cannot serve as justification for the use of violence against thousands of citizens who protested peacefully.
We call on the State Police to provide a public explanation for the use of force during the July 2 protest and to enable an independent, transparent, and effective investigation into every suspected case of abuse of authority. Any police officer who has broken the law must be held accountable. The State Police cannot and must not become a political instrument to frighten, intimidate, or punish citizens who are exercising their constitutional right to protest. The use of force to generate fear and discourage civic participation is unacceptable in a democratic state.
Unfortunately, the violence inflicted in Zvërnec against a peaceful protester was not an isolated episode. It was repeated and intensified on July 2, when a group of protesters who for more than a month have been protesting continuously and largely peacefully were met with disproportionate use of force by the State Police. This repressive approach does not only target protesters, but undermines citizens’ very right to organize, to object, and to demand accountability from those in power.
At the same time, we demand the immediate release of protesters arrested for exercising their right to peaceful protest. Arbitrary detentions, criminal measures, as well as violence used by police officers, civilians, or unidentified individuals, cannot be used as tools of intimidation or repression against citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
We also express concern over information pointing to detailed and selective checks at customs points on citizens traveling to join tomorrow’s protest. If these actions are being used to hinder civic participation, they constitute an unacceptable form of pressure and intimidation against citizens exercising their constitutional rights. We demand public explanations and full transparency regarding these actions.
We call on the State Police, during tomorrow’s protest, to clearly distance itself from any act of violence, from any tolerance of infiltrated individuals, and from any action aimed at provoking or escalating the situation. The duty of the State Police is to guarantee the safety of citizens and the smooth running of the protest, not to fuel tensions or use force to obstruct the exercise of a constitutional right.
At the same time, we call on all citizens who will join tomorrow’s protest to protect its peaceful character. For more than 35 days, this civic movement has protested in a peaceful, democratic, and European manner against a corrupt and captured system. Any act of violence, regardless of who provokes it, whether by infiltrated individuals or provocateurs, would only serve those seeking to keep intact the criminal and corrupt system against which we are protesting.
We call on state institutions to respect the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and to ensure that no citizen faces violence, intimidation, or punishment because of participation in a protest. Protecting this right is the foundation of a democratic society and the rule of law.
Today we demand in one voice: “Free the boys!”
Meanwhile, we invite all citizens, without distinction, to join tomorrow’s protest in a massive, nationwide, and peaceful mobilization. Our strength comes from civic participation, from unity, and from the determination to defend democracy, the rule of law, and the future of the country. We will continue to protest peacefully, as on the first day, for a new Albania, without police violence, without state repression, and without a criminal and corrupt system that rules over the public interest.
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