My father shot Pavelić to avenge the Serbian people for genocide, he kept the gun and a bullet! Daughter Marija exclusively tells Kurir about a secret kept for half a century!
When I was 16, my father told me that one day he would be talked about for something he had done. I always knew it was something important, but I didn't push him to reveal more. And then his brother died. We came to Montenegro. Father confessed to Metropolitan Amfilohije in Ostrog. Mother and I waited for him outside. We had no idea that at that moment he was confessing one of the most important secrets of history - that he was the one who carried out the assassination attempt on Ante Pavelić!
TL;DR
- Blagoje Jovović, a Serbian nationalist and WWII veteran, shot Ante Pavelić, the leader of the Croatian Ustaše regime, in Argentina in 1957.
- Jovović's daughter, Marija, has initiated the transfer of his remains from Argentina to Serbia.
- The assassination attempt was motivated by the Ustaše's atrocities and genocide against Serbs, Jews, and Roma during WWII.
- Marija learned about her father's role in the assassination attempt in 1998 and has since worked to preserve his memory.
- The Serbian government, through Minister Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski, has supported the initiative to transfer Jovović's remains.