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Police, yelling, power turned off: Confrontation over Trump’s Panama hotel escalates

By Ana Cerrud, David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell February 24 at 9:28 PM

PANAMA CITY — The majority owner of President Trump’s only hotel in Latin America abruptly ordered Trump employees out of the property on Thursday, triggering a confrontation in which Trump employees refused to leave and asked police to intervene, according to the Trump Organization and local news reports.

This attempt at a takeover by Orestes Fintiklis — a Cypriot businessman based in Miami — marked a sharp escalation in his months-old effort to re-brand the Trump International Hotel Panama and replace the Trump Organization as its manager. Fintiklis blames Trump’s brand and Trump’s company for declining revenue and empty rooms.

So far, his tactics had been confined to lawsuits and angry letters.

That changed on Thursday, when Fintiklis and a group of others arrived at the hotel, seeking to deliver letters of termination to the staff. That caused at least one confrontation, which included yelling but no physical altercation, according to a Trump Organization official. The police came, the Trump Organization official said, but did not allow Fintiklis to eject the staff.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/police-yelling-power-turned-off-confrontation-over-trumps-panama-hotel-escalates/2018/02/24/a14ed948-19cc-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.28bc88e00d65




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