Politico Europe reports:
For many Serbs, it’s as if the Taliban wanted to build a luxury apartment compound on the site of New York’s Twin Towers. That’s how news of a redevelopment project proposed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump, and Richard Grenell, a key Trump ally, is being taken in some quarters of Belgrade.
The plan includes the demolition of the bombed-out former Yugoslav army headquarters, which until now had been left largely undeveloped as an unofficial memorial to Serbian suffering during the 1999 NATO bombing of Belgrade. In its place would rise a Trump Tower-style high-rise complex of luxury apartments and offices.
The proposal has generated no shortage of outrage in Serbia, centered mostly around the building’s historical significance — in particular, the fact that an American company (one step away from a U.S. president, no less) would be redeveloping the symbol of a Washington-led bombing campaign.
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