Students Protest at Belgrade Site Earmarked for Trump Hotel
People take part in a protest rally against a real estate development project at the site of the former Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 24.
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Crowds of students gathered in Serbia’s capital Monday to protest a government contract with US investors, led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to develop a hotel complex on the site of a former military headquarters.
The demonstrators demanded the government rescind the deal and restore protected status to the former Yugoslav defense ministry building, which was destroyed in NATO’s bombing of Serbian targets in 1999 that aimed to stop Belgrade’s military offensive in Kosovo.