Trump Tower Belgrade Faces Serbia Backlash Amid Corruption Inquiry
A luxe hotel and apartments would go on the site of a defense ministry bombed by US-led NATO forces in 1999. A former government official was accused of forging paperwork to clear the way for the project.
The bombed-out Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in May.
Photographer: Vladimir Zivojinovic for Bloomberg Markets
Along a stately thoroughfare cutting through the heart of Belgrade sit the hollowed-out ruins of the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense. The stone facade buckles in the middle, yielding to a charred jumble of debris. It’s remained this way for more than two decades, a reminder of the 1999 US-led NATO bombing campaign that destroyed it.
It’s now slated to become the site of a new Trump Tower.