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Protesters, police clash in Albania over Trump-linked project
Al Jazeera • • world
Key Points:
- Police clashed with protesters in Tirana, blocking them from reaching parliament during a rally against a luxury coastal development linked to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
- The protests, ongoing for over 100 days, oppose the construction of a hotel in a nature reserve that has already caused environmental damage to bird and turtle nesting sites.
- Protesters, calling their movement the “flamingo revolution,” argue the project restricts public coastal access and have expanded their demands to challenge the ruling Socialist Party.
- Prime Minister Edi Rama supports the development, viewing it as a modernization effort, while demonstrators chanted calls for his arrest amid violent confrontations with police.
- Several protesters were detained during the clashes, though the number of arrests remains unclear.
