Veljko, son of Svetlana Ceca and Željko Ražnatović Arkan, celebrated his 18th birthday. Days before the party where "half of the stage will sing", tabloids speculated about who would be invited and who wouldn't, what the mother would give her son, how much she would "cash out" for the celebration; it settled on 15.000 euros and the question of whether the imported fireworks of 2000 euros, according to the mother's wishes, would really light up the whole city... Or darken, as subsequent events would show.
We follow the hourly rate. The spectacular party started at 21 pm on Wednesday, December 10. At the entrance of the Hyatt Hotel, all guests first had to pass through a metal detector. The celebrant in a white suit, with a white bow tie and a striking gold Rolex on his hand welcomed the guests, about 300 guests. Among the first to arrive was Željko Mitrović, the owner of TV Pink, with his wife and daughters, followed by Oliver Mandić and one of the singer's closest collaborators, Aleksandar Milić Mili. They had no idea that in a few days they would meet again at a gathering "closed to the public", at the funeral of a girl who, although uninvited to the party, may have been entering the hotel at that very moment, only through the side entrance, or perhaps she was already there , or she was about to go. With them, the half of the variety show also arrived, so they walked the red carpet in their turbo-furs, under hairstyles and make-up, to apologize to the connoisseurs, but it was revealed that some Zika and Diana came styled like Angelina and Brad, and some godmother walked into the celebration barefoot in the middle of December, wearing gold flip-flops. The current girlfriend of the celebrant, Anika, daughter of the owner of the Nibens Group, Milo Đurašković, who will now be tried together with Miroslav Mišković, also came. The parents of ex-girlfriend Maša, from the sports jet-set, Terzići, also came, as if to support the relationship between their son and Ceci's daughter, when the latter, crosswise, failed. All the parade Serbian turbo jet-set, by the way, honored the "birthday of the decade" with enthusiasm.
Politicians, the bearers of the "golden nineties" and these years, also came: Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić, Minister of Energy Aleksandar Antić, socialist Milutin Mrkonjić, creator of the information program of the nineties Milorad Vučelić, presidents of the Serbian Unity Party - current and former - Dragan Marković Palma and Borislav Pelević, who founded that party together with Arkan. The gifts, the tabloids write, were brought in envelopes, handed over, the celebrant from that couple can supposedly now buy an apartment - certainly not a one-room apartment in Karaburma - and on the tables it was written that privacy is guaranteed and that no one will film the guests. First, there was a gala dinner for which, everyone says, no money was spared, the best Serbian dishes, exotic specialties, fasting for believers. According to the schedule, a surprise was announced for 23 p.m. - a retrospective collage from the birth of the birthday boy until today. The tabloids say that the moments in which the late Arkan holds his son in his arms when he was a baby were special, so half of the guests cried out of emotion.
photo: goran srdanov...Veljko, Ceca and Anastazija Ražnatović;...
AND FROM THE GODFATHER RIFLE!: The spirit of the evening was Arkan's watch, which according to his wish during his lifetime was to be handed over to his son when he came of age. A gold watch worth 120.000 euros, made of eighteen carat gold and encrusted with diamonds. Connoisseurs write that the folk star once borrowed it from Arkan for the recording of a music video, so the watch was first "given" to a model who played a sexy woodcutter with whom Ceca falls madly in love. The Rolex of 120.000 euros, which shone on the hand of the celebrant from the beginning, for those other, ordinary mortals, the crown "did not return" to the time: great robberies, captivity, desolation, warfare, and now also the act of initiation of Arkan's son into that and such a legacy.
Another symbolically important coming-of-age gift will be a rifle. Borislav Pelević, the wedding godfather of Željko and Svetlana Ražnatović, said: "I will give him the hunting rifle that his father used to shoot down an apple in Žitoraža when we went to propose to Ceci." And he added: "I have a special room that is full of Željko's gifts and memories of our common years. Also, I will give him framed war photos of his father that he doesn't have." In the published comments below that text, one Pera wrote: "Give him a book, godfather. And teach him to be honest."
…Ivana Bodrožić
When the trumpeters started, the mother and son were so overcome by the music that they didn't spare any money at all, media witnesses write. Trumpeters were decorated with coins, and every now and then they inserted 50 and 100 euro bills into the instruments. Minister Ivica Dačić also took the microphone, they say one of the most cheerful guests, and sang Lilacs: "How many times have I died and you brought me back to life, how drunk I was and you sobered me up... It's easy for you to do without me, but how will I do without you..."
And while the tips were sown like that, the police investigation should establish what was happening in room 326 at the same time, in the same hotel, who was there and what they were doing; that night at the Hyatt was really staged, while the minister's voice and stanzas would echo dully through the walls Lilac, one young life, in room 326, would be irretrievably extinguished.
DEATH BEHIND THE SCENES: While in the morning editions the media were packing and transmitting the freshest details from the "birthday of the decade", the hotel maid opened the door of room 326 and had something to see - the lifeless body of a young woman, with a syringe stuck in a vein. But why would that girl have anything to do with the celebration of Cece and Arkan's son? At first, the girl was called an elite prostitute, without a first and last name, a drug addict who overdosed. Then came the shocking information that it was about Iva Bodrožić, who had been in a relationship with media magnate Željko Mitrović for several years, who was at a celebration at the Hyatt that same evening with his family. Before that, Mitrović's name was completely removed from the media, and from then on they only talked about Ivana Bakić Bodrožić from Novi Sad, who also lived in Vienna, the daughter of Nada Bodrožić, a member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly of AP Vojvodina.
Certain portals, and Teleprompter was leading the way, got photos, so-called selfies of Ivana and Željko. Until the photo of his name tattooed on her body. They allegedly received first-hand information that room 326 was booked by the company "Pink International". They claim that they also received an answer from Pink that Ivana was their long-time collaborator responsible for some successful projects, so the authors of the texts wonder how it is that Pink did not even publish an obituary for her collaborator. It was published only by Željko Mitrović, in Novi Sad's "Dnevnik" with the signature "tvoj". Unofficially, it is known that all of Pink can confirm that Ivana and Željko have been in some kind of relationship for several years. Sometimes stormy.
Immediately after the investigation, the police stormed out, stating that the investigation will only be opened if the autopsy shows that the death was caused by violence. And only in that case will it be established whether and with whom the girl was in the hotel room, and, they said, even if she used drugs that night in someone's company, that person cannot be responsible for her death. So how did they know that right away?
And then there was a complete reversal. Covers with the image of a newly matured young man in a white suit and with a golden Rolex on his hand were replaced in a flash by Ivana's pictures and large inscriptions, mystery and doubt. White suits and dresses were replaced by black, and some politicians were replaced by others. At the funeral of Ivana Bodrožić, the private security of TV Pink, probably considering it their inviolable right, prohibited the journalists from entering the cemetery, all with the threat that they would break their cameras if they took pictures of Mitrović, even from a distance. Politicians Bojan Pajtić, Nenad Čanak, Dušan Elezović, Milivoje Vrebalov, party colleagues of Ivana's mother, who crossed her political path from New Serbia and the progressive parliamentary club and now to the Democratic Party, were also at the funeral.
The speculation continued. In the sea of some conflicting results of the autopsy, which was done very quickly at the VMA, and the unexpectedly fast burial, there were questions here and there, for example: why was the autopsy done at the VMA and not at the Clinical Center? Nothing was clearly known, whether it was an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, as some claim, or bad heroin, as others claim, but the police said that in any case they would not investigate because Ivana did not die violently.
Six days after the "solved case", new knowledge does not give peace to anyone anymore. Now it is being loudly announced that the prosecutor is demanding that the causes of Ivana's death be investigated, that the detailed results of the toxicology analysis, the autopsy findings be given, and that it be explained how it is that a needle with a syringe was allegedly found stuck in her right arm when it is known that she was pronounced right-handed, others again ask who was in the room with her, whether she was alone when she died, a third who changed the statuses on her Facebook profile where she talks about the man she loves who kills her slowly, and what really happened on the night when the fireworks were supposed to light up the whole city, and while the entertainment and political "elite" celebrated at the Hyatt.
Something in the air must have said that the tragedy of that night was almost inevitable. If everything was some kind of direction, the audience would know from the beginning what will happen in the end, as soon as they saw the genie in the bottle, "that" Rolex, in the first shot.
