Democratic Party chairman Lulzim Basha blamed Albanian Premier Edi Rama for the attack on the investigative journalist Klodiana Lala, whose parents’ house was shot at with a barrage of AK-47 bullets last night. Basha said such an act is a consequence of Rama’s governance with crime.

The Democrat leader said Lala, a mother of two little daughters, has exposed recently the close links of the Socialist MP Jurgis Çyrbja to the infamous gang of Emiliano Shullazi.

"The armed attack against the journalist Klodiana Lala, which recently shed light on the close relations of Rama’s MP Jurgis Çyrbja with Emiliano Shullazi’s gang, is a telling example that crime feels untouchable. This is the ugly truth! The crime has been triumphing for five years because it co-governs along with Rama”, Basha told media reporters in a press conference after the attack became known.