Balkan country allows private company to invest €15m and convert Mamula into luxury hotel
Montenegro has defended its decision to allow an island fortress and wartime concentration camp to be transformed into a luxury resort, a move that has sparked anger among relatives of former prisoners.
Situated on the island Mamula, in the popular bay of Kotor in the Adriatic Sea, the 19th-century fort was run by fascist Italian forces during the second world war as a concentration camp. Dozens of inmates are believed to have died there.
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