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Albanian prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for more than a dozen businessmen for drug trafficking and money laundering, including one who had previously owned land in the area to be developed by Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump.

Albanian anti-graft prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 20 businessmen they said were involved in international drug smuggling and money laundering. Billions of euros are suspected of having been funnelled to major construction projects along the Adriatic coast and in the Albanian capital.

Among the targeted businessmen is Artur Shehu, a dual US-Albanian citizen living in Miami. Shehu in 2025 sold land near the nature reserve where the flamingos nest to Albania Land Development, a company linked to the Kushner project. That deal came under scrutiny by the anti-graft prosecutors, who froze €128mn worth of payments pending the investigation.

“There is a lot of interest to kill this project . . . because of Trump,” he said. “If it were not Jared Kushner . . . nobody would give a shit about flamingos, about Albania, about nothing. It’s the whole hate against Trump that creates all this scrutiny.”

He said he was confident that the coastal development plans would go forward despite the protests.

“The important part is that the investors are not criminals and they are not [involved in] money laundering,” Rama said. “They are big investors. It’s a historical chance for Albania.”

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“It will not be canceled,” he said. “That’s for sure.” https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/world/europe/albania-kushner-project-protests.html

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Albanians actually taking part in the protests, however, beg to differ.

“Nobody here is protesting against Trump or Israel,” said Elis Kodra, 33, who turned up with his girlfriend for a recent rally with several thousand people outside the office of Albania’s beleaguered prime minister, Edi Rama.

“We are protesting against everything else,” he added, complaining that Albania has been ruled since the collapse of Communism 35 years ago by the same self-serving politicians who rotate in and out office, give state contracts to their friends in business and pay little attention to the economic and other grievances of ordinary citizens.

Yet protests continued, turning Tirana’s central boulevard into a nightly carnival of young and old, setting off what has been called Albania’s “flamingo revolution,” a reference to the protected area’s rich bird life.

Unfurled each night is a big banner in English that reads, “Albania is not for sale.”

Mr. Rama said in an interview that he met in January in Tirana with Ivanka Trump, who is married to Mr. Kushner, and an accompanying team of architects involved with the proposed project. But he insisted that no contracts had been signed or construction permits issued. The island at the center of the project, he said, belongs to the state and has not been sold, nor will it be.

Gentian Mocka, 56, said his family had been fighting for decades in the courts to recover over 91 acres of land confiscated by the Communist government. The property, which he said was later obtained fraudulently by a local lawyer who did work for Artur Shehu, an Albanian living in Miami, is part of a land parcel sold to partners of Mr. Kushner from Qatar in the luxury resort project.

Albania’s anticorruption agency, the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, last week issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Shehu, a naturalized American citizen, accusing him of buying land and using Albanian construction projects to launder money for drug traffickers. The proceeds from his land sale to the Qataris have been frozen, Mr. Rama, the prime minister, said, but the sale still stood.

Mr. Mocka said that if he managed to get his land back he would happily sell it for Mr. Kushner’s project. “The whole family wants to sell and just wants to be finished with this whole thing,” he said.

Mr. Rama said the protesters were free to gather peacefully outside his office, adding, “Albania is not a dictatorship.” But he insisted that they would not derail Mr. Kushner’s resort project

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Authorities in the Landes region of south-west France said three people died and 15 were injured in road accidents on Tuesday, while two more were killed in accidents in the Paris area. One driver died in hospital on Monday night after veering into the Marne River and another was killed after a collision with a heavy goods vehicle in the east of the French capital.

In the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a woman died on Monday after a snow-covered tree branch fell on her head.

Many flights will be cancelled from Paris’s two main airports, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly, early on Wednesday to allow ground crews to clear snow from runways and de-ice planes. About 40% of flights at Charles de Gaulle were expected to be scrapped and 25% at Orly.

In the Netherlands, hundreds of flights were cancelled at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as staff worked to clear runways and de-ice planes. Rail travellers in the country faced chaos after domestic services were suspended early on Tuesday due to an IT outage, compounding the disruption caused by the weather.

Freezing temperatures have gripped much of Europe, with the thermometer plunging well below -10C (14F) in south and east Germany early on Tuesday. German meteorologists have forecast a storm in the country on Friday, with heavy snowfall expected in the north and east.

In Britain, temperatures fell to -12.5C overnight, with snow disrupting rail, road and air travel and forcing the closure of hundreds of schools across northern regions.

Temperatures in lowland areas of northern Italy have fallen below freezing, with snow expected in the medium- to low-altitude areas of Emilia-Romagna, Marche and Tuscany on Tuesday.

Heavy snow and heavy rain have swept through Balkan countries, swelling rivers and causing traffic problems and disrupting power and water supplies.

In Serbia, some local authorities in the country’s west introduced emergency measures due to the severe weather while warning drivers to take care as many set off toward skiing resorts or elsewhere for Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday and the upcoming weekend.