
Journalist Fatos Mahmutaj recounted the incident when he was injured on January 21, while reporting on the protest called by the Socialist Party in front of the Prime Minister's Office.
Mahmutaj said that at first he did not realize that he had been wounded by a bullet and continued to speak in direct connection. He said that after that bullet, the vicissitudes and consequences of the event led to him ending up as an asylum seeker in Belgium.
" I was live on the show I was reporting on and I was in front of a guard and he shot towards the crowd where I was and the bullets were coming towards me. For the first few moments I didn't realize that I had been wounded by a bullet, I thought it was a piece of a tree trunk. I continued the connection and after the injury, I spoke for about a minute on the live connection and I was saying on the live connection that I didn't even understand what was happening and that I could have been wounded myself. After that bullet, 14 years of my career came to an end. Everything fell apart. Due to the consequences and vicissitudes of that moment, I ended up as an asylum seeker in Belgium.
The former prime minister of the time said in a press conference that there was talk of an injured journalist, but then said that there was no injured journalist. From that moment on, my case was isolated and not made public. I had a kind of malice from the hospital administration, so their political part reached the point where it seemed that they wanted to hide me until I didn't even meet the prosecutors. The forensic doctor didn't want to do an expertise, he started telling me that they had shot you at close range, you weren't shot with a bullet, things that I am ashamed to say today ," he said for the "TopStory" show.
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