Democratic Party Chairman Sali Berisha said the person that attacked him during the opposition’s protest in Tirana is an agent of the criminal police, used by the government.

Berisha was punched in the face by Gert Shehu, 31, as he was walking with former President Ilir Meta and thousands of protesters towards the area of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tirana. The man was immediately subdued by the bodyguards and supporters.

“As you saw, it was a criminal, aggressive act of a person that meets all the criteria to be used. What is more flagrant is that the person is a criminal police agent”, Berisha told a press conference after the protest.

“Gert Shehu is an agent of the criminal police, a contingent that is infiltrated in small numbers in the traffickers circles. Problems with a few disorders, but the fact that Fuga’s office (the government’s office for the media and public affairs strategy) spread immediately his health file proves that everything was prepared. The fact that his office had the file ready to give to media reporters. Edi Rama, trying to show he was outside of what happened, showed he is 100 percent inside”.