Apartman 212

It is not true that the new government hesitates when it comes to the pursuit of justice, here is the injustice that Tito and company inflicted on the royal family has been corrected: Police Minister Zoran Živković ceremoniously handed over extracts from the register of citizens of Yugoslavia to Aleksandar Karađorđević, Katarina Karađorđević and their sons Aleksandar, Filip and Petra (these names will be known to every student as soon as the teachers' strike ends).

Prince Aleksandar himself, formerly known as a soulful man, cried when he saw the excerpts, the members of the Crown Council swallowed about twenty dumplings, an ancient sigh escaped from Ambassador Janković's chest, the only one who somewhat suppressed the flowing tears was the adviser to the Minister of Police, Mr. Vesić - thanks to his composure, agency Beta is able to convey the story of joys in London to the readers.

Those of us who studied society in Tito's era only now see how sad it all was, with the heir to the throne who was born in exile: the throne awaits him (perhaps it doesn't await him), and his navel is cut in an island, foreign, albeit allied earth! We were told repeatedly how the king and his clique cowardly fled the country ("leaving the people at the mercy of the occupier and his servants"), now we can see that this was the fate of Karađorđević, a fate so bitter that the British King George the Fifth and the then prime minister unanimously decided to provide accommodation for the delivery woman, midwife, governess, two nurses, a maid and a nanny in the "Clergys" hotel, listen to me, I didn't say necessary accommodation, accommodation he gets holy when he finds himself away from home during the civil war, in 1945 the royal family was assigned apartment 212, which had previously been declared Yugoslav territory! Did the English have the right to unilaterally annex the hotel suite to the territories that had been liberated by the partisans and the Red Army until that moment? It goes without saying that they didn't, behind the humanitarian action was the notorious, annoying British anti-communism, Churchill kept a trump card up his sleeve against partisanship (with which he cooperated extensively at the front), but we are no longer interested in that, it is ours to continue to use this territory as an inalienable part of FR Yugoslavia! As far as I know, apartment 212 was assigned to us on indefinite times, it was not said "until the little one walks", "until he becomes an adult", "until he solves the housing issue and the throne issue", the apartment, if I'm not mistaken somewhere, is still ours.

The Karađorđevićs will move into the White House, why doesn't the previous tenant of the White House move into their London apartment? Between Milošević and Karađorđević, something like an exchange of apartments would take place... Indeed, if in 1941 for the Karađorđević family, staying in Yugoslavia was dangerous, unpleasant, harmful to health, etc., sixty years later, Yugoslavia becomes unhealthy for another family. What? Isn't that the same? In 1941, he was a king, this is a president, and a former one? Nothing is completely the same, but nothing is completely different either: what for King Peter was the AVNOJ session, for Milosevic it was the fifth of October, and in both cases we have a coup and we have an individual who is better off in London than in Belgrade.

I would like Sloba to stay there. But no one knows. He is very much in London, and here they are working on the preliminary draft of the law on the extradition of citizens of the FRY to international courts, so when that draft is ready, soon, soon, the DOS experts will write it in eight and a half months... In the meantime, the prosecuting authorities are working feverishly, the lawyers, some seven thousand of them, day and night some are studying the cadastral books, others the regulations of the municipality of Stari grad, in order to find some loophole with which they could send Milosevic to the magistrate for misdemeanors, while palm to palm eighteen months, oh, here the investigation gives its first results, the public is scandalized, the nation's idol swindled the public, surveyors confirm the illegal extension of the yard, now it is really over, alas, months pass again, Sloba does not appear at any of the three hearings, just to forceful detention, New Year's Eve 2004 came, then Christmas, but, but, on the third day of Christmas (St. Stephen's), the MUP patrol headed to Užička. The Guard, which guarded the body of President Milosevic with their bodies in early 2001, is no longer as numerous or as representative as at the beginning, some succumbed to colds, others suffered from heatstroke, many resembled typhus from the reputation of the partisans, a few got frass, mostly, the police come across everything two female guardsmen, they offer tough resistance, in the two-day exchange of fire, one is wounded in the cross, the other chokes from tear gas, drops her rifle M-48 and wounds himself in the hip; in accordance with the Geneva Convention, her wound is properly bandaged, her hip is immobilized, the special forces rush in to find the usurper of the construction land, when - the house is empty!

During that time, in London's Cleridjis Hotel, in apartment number 212, Branislav Ivković gave an interview to the BBC: "Yes, it's true, President Milošević has been staying here for two and a half years, and he is running the Party from this apartment. Party. I speak quietly, not because I'm afraid of something, but because the president rests from two to four, yes, he stays here as a patriot, this is an inalienable part of the Yugoslav territory, and you are guests of the Socialist Party of Serbia... How long does he intend to stay here?... And how long does the international the community thinks it thinks the way it thinks?! He will stay in the apartment until the conditions are met for his return to Belgrade..."

Wouldn't that serve us all well? Scotland Yard must not invade because it is not theirs, the Yugoslav police will not humiliate themselves and ask for British visas, President Kostunica remains a legalist and a man who keeps his word - he did not deliver Milosevic to the Tribunal, and yet, no one can tell him that he tolerates it in Belgrade a citizen suspected of war crimes.

All this is nice, and more than nice, but how is Milošević going to get to London, will he smoothly get the key to our apartment? Well, that's his concern, the new government is not crazy to get involved! If she were to meet him in anything, it would be discussed immediately, evil tongues would say, that's why he met with Koštunica... The new government will be enough if Milošević is not in the way. It would be good and it would be in order not to disturb him until the new year (the chief of police was given five months to face his fate, yesterday's president is entitled to a year of lufta): if he was maher to send that much gold and that much cash abroad, he can and to export himself somehow.