Alix Kroeger
Text editor at the Associated Press, London. Previously BBC News website and BBC na srpskom. Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024. Ukraine, Balkans, climate change, bicycles and the rest.
- This story is nuts. Small nuts in the context of everything else that's going on, but nuts all the same. A Serbian official is going on trial, accused of forgery to expedite a Jared Kushner-linked project in Belgrade \1
- The project concerned the redevelopment of an enormously sensitive site, the wreck of a Yugoslav military complex in central Belgrade. It was destroyed by Nato bombing in 1999 and declared a protected cultural heritage zone \2
- A company linked to Kushner wanted to turn the site into a high-rise hotel, a luxury apartment complex, office spaces and shops. Cue public outrage \3
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View full threadThe trial comes days after the Serbian parliament passed a set of legal changes seen as an attempt to curb the independence of Serbia’s judiciary, particularly of the organized crime prosecutors who have been handling high-profile cases \ends
