Thousands protest against Kushner's Serbia project, commemorate NATO bombing victims

Record ID: 1985594

  • Title: Thousands protest against Kushner's Serbia project, commemorate NATO bombing victims
  • Date: 24th March 2025
  • Summary: BELGRADE, SERBIA (MARCH 15, 2025) (REUTERS) STUDENTS AND OTHER PROTESTERS MARCHING WITH SERBIAN FLAGS PROTESTERS PLAYING DRUMS MAN BLOWING VUVUZELA PEOPLE BLOWING WHISTLES DOG LOOKING ON THROUGH CAR WINDOW VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) PROTESTER, NEBOJSA KACIC, SAYING: “I am here today because of bad memories and a bright future. Those are my reasons
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  • Keywords: Belgrade Serbia protest
  • Location: BELGRADE, SERBIA
  • City: BELGRADE, SERBIA
  • Country: Serbia
  • Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001131624032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Thousands gathered in Belgrade on Monday (March 24) to remember a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 and protest against the development of a luxury compound by an investment company set up by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.
    Serbia has seen months of anti-government rallies after 16 deaths from a railway station roof collapse triggered accusations of widespread corruption and negligence.
    Protesters marched past two destroyed buildings which were damaged in 1999 during the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia launched to force the then strongman Slobodan Milosevic to end his bloody crackdown against Albanians in Kosovo.
    The Serbian authorities and Kushner's U.S.-based investment firm Affinity Global Development, signed a 99-year lease deal last year, allowing the company to overhaul two buildings which housed the headquarters of the former Yugoslav People's Army.
    "The messages are to build in other places, that not everything is for sale, even ruins have their own symbolism, have their own meaning," protesters and architect Zivota Lazarevic told Reuters.
    The protests in Serbia have swelled to include students, teachers and farmers in a major challenge to President Aleksandar Vucic, a populist in power for 12 years as prime minister or president.
    (Production: Fedja Grulovic, Branko Filipovic, Malgorzata Wojtunik)
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