President Bajram Begaj has reacted to the serious incident in Tirana, where Appeals Judge Astrit Kalaja was shot dead inside the courtroom.
Begaj expresses shock at the "terrible attack" on the judge and the system itself, and says that society should "despise this macabre assassination."
President Bajram Begaj's reaction:
I am deeply shocked and condemn in the strongest possible terms the intolerable act of murder in the line of duty of Judge Astrit Kalaja.
This terrible attack on the distinguished judge, but also on justice as such, must be faced by the entire society with the deepest contempt and disagreement, because this act is a macabre assassination attempt on the very system, on which coexistence and social peace are founded.
On behalf of the state, I stand with the family of the deceased and his colleagues, both near and far, and express the full solidarity of Albanians with the boundless pain of loss.