Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking from the Prime Minister's Office, where a memorial service for the four protesters killed in the January 21 protest is being held, did not hesitate to attack his predecessor, Sali Berisha, who was at the head of the government at the time. He said that the then Prime Minister fired a bullet in the face at the opposition.

"15 years ago, an armed horde, a mixture of the regular Guard troops and the Prime Minister's paramilitary units, was barricaded here in this building. The building was reinforced with barbed wire, stretched everywhere behind that ugly iron fence that surrounded the Prime Minister's Office, after the armed attack of 1998. The man who was put in the Prime Minister's Office by the people to lead Albania, had let out a cry for a bullet-proof response to the protest of the united opposition of the time," he said.