The Albanian citizen Mark Marku has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the beginning of this year for armed robbery in a time when he has been in Ireland.
He is married to an Irish woman, July O’reilly, a teacher graduated at the Dublin University in Ireland.
The crime happened in Rrethimnos, Crete, on 3 May 2010, but according to the Sunday Times, Marku has been in Ireland on that day.
The 24 year old was charged of participating in a gang of nine armed people that has committed armed robbery, car theft, illegal arm possession and drug possession.
The three-judge panel has found Marku guilty of all charges, besides the drug possession one.
On the day of the crime, Mark has been with his wife at “Co Carlow”, Ireland, right after he had started working at the Mount Wolesley Hotel.
Mark was offered to work as a part time waiter, a job that he has started on May 3rd, as confirmed by the General Manager of the hotel, Garry Lavin. Dhe official documents of the hotel show that he has even received a bonus on that day for working extra hours.
According to the Irish wife of Mark, O’reilly, he has been to Crete, at his brother, on May 18th, which can be verified from his airplane ticket. The ticket was presented in the trial, but it was rejected as falsified.
The Irish wife of Marku claims that her husband has not had an honest trial due to the hate against Albanians in Crete.
Another Albanian in Britain was charged for a murder that he had not committed, since he was in England when the crime was committed, and he was compensated.
Quoting an article published by the daily German “Der Spiegel”, Deutsche Welle says that the EU investigators are tracking organ traffickers of global activity. 
The EP rapporteur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek said via a video address to the AAB&RIINVEST University students that Kosovo will soon receive the visa liberalization road map. Lunacek added that the EP is committed to receive all the west Balkan countries in the EU. According to her, the roadmap will be delivered authorities during the spring of this very year.
The Switzerland senator who accused the KLA leaders of illegal organ transplants of POWs from 1998-1999 has arrived in Kosovo. Marty, however, came as a witness to another case, the Medicus scandal, allegedly dealing with transplants carried out after the war in Kosovo. A session will be held in court on Friday although Marty will not be testifying.
The Kosovo deputy PM Hajredin Kuci denied the statements made by the Syrian President Bashar al Assad on training camps of Syrian rebels in Kosovo.
The EULEX court has exonerated the Director General of Kosovo Custom House Huruglica and the Director of the Legal Department Rufuna accused of allowing additional imports of tobacco in Kosovo to cross the legal import limits for 2008.
In a vistit to Tetovo, the Deputy PM of Kosovo, Hajerdin Kuci declared that Kosovo is interested that Macedonia be a stable state. “Kosovo is interested that the Republic of Macedonia is a functional, democratic state which respects the rights of its citizens, the Ohrid agreement and its international obligations”, said Kuci. 
In an interview given to Europe based media, the Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared that the solution of Macedonia’s name issue is still a condition for NATO membership to the country. Rasmussen said that there is no change of opinion that the change will come after a plausible solution found by Athens and Skopje.
The Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci declared that the dynamics of Prishtina and Brussels do not converge and that the delays by Brussels are unjustifiable. According to Thaci, Kosovo has been belated for a century unjustly. “It is clear that Kosovo has a European future. The state of Kosovo is univocal in the political and ethnical aspect regarding the Euro-Atlantic vision. But the truth is that the dynamics of the two do not converge. Brussels delays are unjustifiable, Kosovo has already been belated a century unjustly. Kosovo has worked separately from EU forums and the EU has had a very slow pace”, said Thaci.
A group of Macedonians gathered at the government office protesting against the demonstrations in Skopje and other cities resided by Albanian communities in Macedonia. The young Macedonians chanted racist and offensive slogans against Albanians. After the incidents and recent developments, the fragile situation of inter ethnic relations in Macedonia seems to have been deteriorated even more. 
The US Department of State urged the Belgrade authorities to arrest the murderers of Agron Ylli and Mehmet Bytyqi. The Supreme Court of Belgrade had exonerated two persons who were accused of having provided assistance in the murder of the three American citizens who were arrested and arbitrarily executed in 1999.
