 Initial reports in the Albania news media characterized the incident as a traffic accident resulting from road rage.However, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha issued an unusually strong condemnation of the incident, calling the incident an "act of extreme and blind fanaticism" and demanding that police authorities make every effort to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.The death of Goumas was also condemned by the main opposition Albanian Socialist Party and the Socialist Movement for Integration party.