Minister of Education hit with tomato sauce as part of protest against university reform

TIRANA, Nov. 22 – Albanian Minister of Education Lindita Nikolla was attacked with tomato sauce earlier this week as she attended a conference on the International Day of Students. A video of the attack, filmed by the group of student protesters, went viral online. Mirela Ruko a young activist of the University Movement in Tirana poured sauce on Nikolla’s hair in a sign of protest over the recent education reform. Minister Nikolla was immediately whisked out of the hall. In a press statement, the University Movement said that the “activists threw sauce on the minister in a similar act to…