Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted to comments online, where a deviated nose was satirized as an effect of drug use.
During a video after the meeting held in Pogradec, Rama explained that that sign remained as a reminder of the attack he faced years ago.
"I see that there are people who deal with my nose from time to time, with this asymmetry. Thanks also to the contribution of the algorithm that has mediated the political being of Albania outside these digital mirrors with those who live in these mirrors, comes that irony of desire, drugs, distortion. This distortion here is the sign that my body will bear for the rest of my life from an attempt to erase me from the face of this earth where I was born, grew up and am here today because I do not have this trace for any other reason. But even when I had nothing in my hand, I wanted a country that stood upright, I wanted to live in a country that would not make its children bow their heads when asked, it is precisely for this country that .... crying for the bad desire it has received because you are generally younger than that story. If there is a story of mine that I can tell one day, it is the one of the things that I was unable to do anything else," he said.
