Milan, Oct. 16 (LaPresse) – At least 26 people, including several police officers, were injured in Albania in clashes that broke out yesterday on the third day of student-led protests in Tirana. The students joined the anti-government demonstrations of the so-called ‘flamingo movement’, which have been ongoing for months and began in opposition to a coastal real estate project linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. On the third day of protests, young people demonstrating against the Albanian socialist government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama threw stones at a police cordon outside the Ministry of Education, and riot police responded with tear gas and water cannons. Police arrested several protesters. Some demonstrators, wearing face coverings, threw fireworks at government offices and set fire to rubbish bins. The students are calling for reforms in the education sector. The ‘flamingo movement’ they have joined takes its name from the fact that the pink birds have become a symbol of the protest against the luxury tourism project that an investment firm founded by Kushner wants to develop on Albania’s southern coast, on an island where thousands of flamingos live in a nature reserve.
Albania: clashes and injuries on third day of student protests against Rama government
Milan, Oct. 16 (LaPresse) – At least 26 people, including several police officers, were injured in Albania in clashes that broke out yesterday on the third day of student-led protests in Tirana. The students joined the anti-government demonstrations of the so-called ‘flamingo movement’, which have been ongoing for months and began in opposition to a coastal real estate project linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. On the third day of protests, young people demonstrating against the Albanian socialist government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama threw stones at a police cordon outside the Ministry of Education, and riot police responded with tear gas and water cannons. Police arrested several protesters. Some demonstrators, wearing face coverings, threw fireworks at government offices and set fire to rubbish bins. The students are calling for reforms in the education sector. The ‘flamingo movement’ they have joined takes its name from the fact that the pink birds have become a symbol of the protest against the luxury tourism project that an investment firm founded by Kushner wants to develop on Albania’s southern coast, on an island where thousands of flamingos live in a nature reserve.