An afternoon protest outside Albania's parliament turned confrontational, with clashes reported between demonstrators and police. Officers moved in to intervene, and among those escorted away was Adriatik Lapaj, the head of the party Shqipëria Bëhet. The party published a video of the moment and claimed Lapaj sustained injuries while police were taking him into custody. Protesters at the scene gave their own accounts of what happened, and those accounts reportedly differ from the police version. The demonstration was staged right outside the Kuvend, the Albanian national assembly, in the middle of the afternoon. Ties between protest groups and the government have been strained for some time, and scenes like this raise the temperature further. Police had issued no detailed public explanation in the immediate aftermath of the escort. Whether a formal complaint follows over the alleged injury remains to be seen.