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For Vučić, there is no dilemma. He says of Dragan Vučićević: “I consider him an honest and kind man.” Apparently, honor is measured with rusty rulers in Vučić's Serbia.
A banquet with a war criminal, with piglets on a spit and in the oven, with a convicted murderer (and something about Ivica Dacic's grandmother and a 1903 massacre at the Royal Palace in Belgrade)
Like every religious holiday, Christmas is considered a celebration of love, understanding, and solidarity. At least that's what they say.
Religious holidays are usually celebrated in the family circle. The Serbian newspaper "Informer", which is run by the troublemaker Dragan Vučićević, gathered the Serbian "elite" this year to celebrate Orthodox Christmas.
Part of the show also featured President Aleksandar Vučić, who a few years ago expressed his thoughts on Vučićević: "I have been a personal friend of his for 25 years."
Then, in the rest of the show, Vučić was no longer seen, but he was worthily represented by the Serbian “elite”. For example, by his political father Vojislav Šešelj. So, at this banquet were present: Vojislav Šešelj, convicted of war crimes and champion of toxic language in Serbia (although the competition is great), Ana Brnabić, speaker of the parliament, Ivica Dačić, interior minister and many other ministers. Dačić was sitting at the end of the table, on his right side stood a roasted pig. Or was he a pkastik?
Dragan Ashanin, convicted of murder, entertained the audience with a microphone. In 1992, he killed his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend. For this, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
As the assembly demands, the host and master of the house, Dragan Vučićević, was the first to speak. He said: "Here, we have prepared everything as befits this great celebration. We have piglets on a spit, piglets in the oven, whatever you like. I ask my waiter friends to go to these guests, offer them, and serve them well."
Then Vučićević asked Šešelj what he wanted to eat? Šešelj was not in the mood to talk about meat right away, but about Dačić. He said that “his grandmother left her grandfather with nine children and left for an Albanian”. And he apologized to the “honest Albanian” Demo Berisha, who was also part of this banquet in his capacity as minister for minority rights (“Izvni Demo, to je bila druga vrsta Šiptara”).
Vučićević quickly found his role and behaved like a cafe owner, ordering songs. So the musicians sang to Šešelj: "Look, mother, how can you do it, for a Chetnik to marry me". Then the party slipped into racist songs, accompanied by alcohol and shouting. For example, with this insulting slur against Turkish and Muslim women in general: "The Turkish woman swore in front of the mosque that she only fell in love with a Serb".
The only European politician to protest against this nationalist origin so far was former Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula, who is the European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia. Picula told the Croatian magazine Nacional that “you cannot negotiate EU membership with such people, they are for a ‘Greater Serbia’”. He added: “I would, of course, like to hear even harsher reactions from Brussels because … Serbia is a candidate for EU membership. In fact, it has not opened any chapters for four years, but I think that this is also evidence for those in Brussels who perhaps have a different view, or consider this to be just a random incident, that the reality in Serbia is significantly different, much worse.”
For Vučić, there is no dilemma. He says of Dragan Vučićević: "I consider him an honest and kind man." It seems that honor is measured with rusty rulers in Vučić's Serbia.
Let’s move on to matters outside the banquet table. At the beginning of the 20th century, King Alexander of Serbia decided to marry Draga Mashin, who served as his mother’s maid at the royal court in Belgrade. Draga Mashin did not enjoy a good image in the city. She was a widow, 10 years older than the king, and was considered sterile (it was important for the royal house to have descendants and heirs). Other rumors circulated about Draga Mashin. One day, the Crown Council met to convince the King to abandon his intention to marry Draga Mashin. The Minister of the Interior, Đorđe Genčić, said: “Your Majesty, you cannot marry her. She has been everyone’s lover, including mine.” The King responded by giving Genčić a hard slap in the face in front of the other ministers. Gençić later became part of the plan to assassinate King Alexander.
This happened on June 11, 1903. About 30 officers forced their way into the Royal Palace. The bodies of the King and his wife were massacred. Here is how historian Christopher Clark described the scene in his book on the causes of the outbreak of World War I: “ The bodies, according to the later testimony of the king’s Italian barber, who was traumatized and had been ordered to collect the bodies and dress them for burial, had been pierced with swords, bayonets, partially disemboweled, and hacked to pieces with axes, until they were so mutilated that they were unrecognizable. The queen’s body was carried to the railing of the bedroom window and, almost naked and completely covered in blood, thrown into the garden. When the assassins attempted to do the same to Alexander, the king’s hand is said to have been momentarily caught in the railing. An officer cut off his fist with a blow of his sword. The monarch’s fingers and body fell to the ground. While the assassins had gathered in the garden to smoke a cigarette and inspect their destructive work, "it started to rain."
There are all kinds of banquets in the history of the Balkans. Some are held in gardens, some in the editorial office of "Informer" television.
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