 Rustemi was acquitted of the crime before a French court on 2 December 1920.The assassination was largely seen as a heroic act, as it has historically been seen as a signal of a new bourgeois and a peasant revolution against the feudal traditions of Albania and a crossing bridge in the newly democratic-petite bourgeois values.On his return to Albania later that month, he was lauded as a national hero and entered the political arena.