Psychiatrist Sadik Lala has provided new details on the health condition of Gert Shehu, the person who punched Sali Berisha on December 6. After the incident, the psychiatrist issued a medical certificate for the condition of the 31-year-old.
He said in "Opinion, that he has not given explanations to the prosecutor's office on this matter, but he said that he is ready to give it." He stated that the patient suffers from psychosis. The psychiatrist commented on a photo from the moment of the attack on Berisha, where Shehu prepares to attack Berisha. Lala said that he considers that Shehu's action a delusion and that he may be under the influence of his idea and hear voices.
Can you tell us, doctor, if the patient received medication and if he did not receive medication, what pathologies did he exhibit?
Sadik Lala: I did not put the diagnosis there for legal reasons, for ethical, professional and legal reasons. In short, so as not to take up too much time, the patient is said to be suffering from psychosis. A venerable psychosis has three characteristics, hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior. It doesn't necessarily have all of them and the doctor doesn't necessarily catch them all. For example, in this picture that you have on the screen, I as a psychiatrist and every other psychiatrist, with those actions you do, we consider it a delusion. The person may be under the influence of his idea and may hear voices telling him, hit, throw, train. Claude said a while ago that he was an intern. I documented it in an interview at the clinic, I told him what kind of believer you are who drinks drugs. Fortunately he was honest at times. I asked him, have you been drinking? I have been drinking, he said. But why did you drink, a Muslim believer, should drink drugs? He got up and left. It is typical behavior of such patients.