The Albanian Democratic Party issued an official statement today concerning the ugly physical attack against Chairman Sali Berisha on Tuesday during the opposition protest in the capital Tirana. Democrat spokeswoman Floriana Garo said it was a politically motivated attack by a criminal police informant, orchestrated by Albanian Premier Edi Rama.

“After the brutal physical attack with political motives against Chairman of the Democratic Party Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha, committed by the criminal police informant Gerti Shehu, the instigators and organizers of this criminal act, Edi Rama and his family minister Bledi Çuçi have set in motion the whole machinery of deception to cover up the act”, the statement said.

“They are doing everything to protect the criminal Gerti Shehu, informant of the criminal police, and to free him from the burden of solicited crime by presenting him as mentally ill and his criminal act as the work of a sick person psyche”.