'Our Land, Our Albania': Supreme Court Burns as Anger Over Jared Kushner-Linked Resort Fuels Revolt

Albania Protests Escalate As Fire Hits Supreme Court

Anti-government protests in Albania have intensified following fires at public buildings in Tirana, as students and other demonstrators demand Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation over corruption allegations, education concerns and a controversial resort project

Albania Protests: Supreme Court set blaze, police attacked with firebombs; PM Rama calls it obstacle to EU membership

TIRANA: Albania’s capital, Tirana, has been rocked by massive, escalating anti-government protests, with demonstrators taking extremely unconstitutional & violent forms. The protestros have set the country’s Supreme Court on fire, targeted the banks and government buildings and have attacked police personnel. They have also demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Violent protest in Albania, is the latest among the series of unrest a…

'Fair to say' Kushner-Ivanka Trump resort in Albania is 'dead': reporter

Extremism reporter Will Sommer of The Bulwark believes Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's efforts to build a luxury resort in Albania are likely dead. Albanians haven't stopped protesting the plan since the announcement, and over the weekend protesters burned their Supreme Court building to the ground. Meanwhile, the parliament and the education department have been vandalized, and the prime minister is in hiding.The plan was for Trump and Kushner…

'Our Land, Our Albania': Supreme Court Burns as Anger Over Jared Kushner-Linked Resort Fuels Revolt

Protesters in Tirana set fire to Albania's Supreme Court late on Saturday as a movement that began over a Jared Kushner-linked resort widened into a broader challenge to Prime Minister Edi Rama's government. The blaze on 17 October 2026 came during a week of violent demonstrations, with hundreds detained and more than 270 people injured. What started as the so-called Flamingo Revolution against a luxury development on the southern coast has draw…

Fire engulfs Albania’s Supreme Court as protests enter fifth day

Offices at the Supreme Court in Tirana were set ablaze as anti-government protests continue.