If Ceca’s involvement in the assassination of Djindjic is proven, that symbiosis could finally be put to rest. In an essay on Serbian culture during the war years, „The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives,“ sociology professor Eric Gordy of Clark University in Miami says that Arkan and Ceca’s wedding „symbolized the connection between turbo folk, state-controlled media, and the new criminal elite.“ The Milosevic regime’s newspaper, Vecernje novosti, dedicated its entire front page and two additional inside pages to the wedding. Both the ceremony and reception were broadcast live on national television and radio and sold on video across the country. Their glamorous 1995 wedding was a public spectacle par excellence. Ceca was invited to sing to the up-and-coming troops.

The political love story of Arkan and Ceca began in 1994 in a military camp used to train members of Arkan’s Serbian Volunteer Guard paramilitary unit.

Karleusa is the former girlfriend of Zoran Davidovic Canda, a drug dealer and stolen car smuggler who was killed in March 2000. But Ceca and Jelena Karleusa have much more in common than that–they both are known to mingle with the underworld. According to local media reports, Ceca was arrested by none other than Dragan Karleusa, a senior Serbian police officer and the father of Jelena Karleusa, Serbia’s second-biggest pop star. Police say Ceca continued to entertain the two even after the prime minister’s death, when arrest warrants had been issued for both. Police searched the villa after learning that Ceca frequently played host to the chief suspects in Djindjic’s murder: Milorad „Legija“ Lukovic, former Special Operations Unit (JSO) commander, and Dusan „Siptar“ Spasojevic, the boss of the so-called Zemun clan. Inside in a hidden bunker police discovered all the tricks of the assassination trade: 21 guns, three boxes of ammunition, compasses, a laser rangefinder, a precision viewfinder for rifle sights, a bow, 20 arrows, silencers for Scorpio and Heckler guns, police batons, gas masks, protective hats, and the list goes on.

In a high-profile operation on 17 March, only five days into the assassination investigation, police surrounded Arkan’s Belgrade villa, where Ceca lived with her two children under the protection of numerous security guards. Ceca’s arrest, the result of her close ties with the prime suspects in Djindjic’’ murder, has brought to light the influential political role her genre of music, turbo folk, played in Serbia during the Slobodan Milosevic regime and beyond.Ĭeca, the widow of Zeljko „Arkan“ Raznatovic–a notorious paramilitary leader who was murdered in January 2000–was no stranger to the underworld, but the love songs she sang, as opposed to the threateningly nationalist lyrics of other folk singers, were the hottest stuff on the Serbian music scene. By Goran Tarlac Svetlana ‘Ceca’ RaznatovicīELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro–When the attractive and voluptuous Serbian folk singer Svetlana „Ceca“ Raznatovic–Belgrade’s biggest pop star–was arrested in connection with the 12 March assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the public was indeed shocked.

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