Asmin Djurdjic Admits: I Broke the Windshield, Not Maja

Asmin Djurdjic today took the blame for the shattered windshield on the car he drives and denied that Maja Marinkovic was the one who smashed it. That same afternoon, a paparazzi crew filmed the two of them driving through Belgrade in that very car. She was in the passenger seat, he was behind the wheel, and the windshield on the driver’s side was still broken.

The footage shows no trace of the argument from the day before. Djurdjic drives her around the city and drops her off at a store. The car is rented and carries Belgrade plates.

How the argument started

It began with a message Djurdjic sent to his banker in Austria. He says he hadn’t logged into the Austrian bank’s app in a year, and he needed to transfer money into his own account.

I’ll tell you the whole truth. Yesterday I woke up and everything was normal between me and Maja. I was driving her into town to get some dresses made, and I couldn’t log into my Austrian bank’s app. I needed to move some money from Austria into my account. I tried to get into the Austrian bank’s app but couldn’t, because I hadn’t used it in a year. I texted my banker while Maja wasn’t around. “Hi, I can’t log into the app, can you sort that out for me?” She sorted it out, asked me whether I was in Serbia or Austria, asked, “Where are you?”, and I said I was down here. She fixed it for me.

The trouble started once Marinkovic realized which woman he meant. Djurdjic had been close with that same banker before he was even with Aneli.

Maja walks in and says, “Did someone text you?” I said, “No, I only texted this woman from the bank.” Maja says, “Is that the one you were with?”, the one Aneli talked about… At first I denied it, said it wasn’t her. Back and forth, no it wasn’t… And after two hours, I admitted it was her, the woman I’d had a sexual relationship with. And that’s when the chaos started.

Marinkovic posted that woman’s number on her Instagram profile. Earlier the same day, footage had already surfaced of her yelling at the banker during a drive, in both English and Serbian, while the woman stayed silent.

Who actually broke the glass?

Until today, the media had one answer. Now there is another. Reporters had found the car parked outside Marinkovic’s building with a shattered windshield, and neighbors pointed to jealousy as the cause. She had already denied wrecking the car. Djurdjic now says the same thing.

The chaos starts, Maja was after her number, and I hit the windshield with my fist. I’d already lost it, I’m not making excuses, it’s because of a girl I was with for eight years, that’s why I didn’t report it. We argued, but we didn’t fight. You know how she gets: “Tell me, tell me.” I broke the windshield, that’s why my hand is bloody, from the glass. If Maja had done it, she would have the bloody hand. Then I left, took two Bromazepam to calm down and fell asleep. I wake up and see 150 missed calls from Maja, from everyone… I go to her apartment, she’s terrified, crying. Right then I see Mevlida calling into the People Ask segment. I call Mustafa from Maja’s phone, on camera, I thought they’d panicked because I wasn’t answering. I talk to him, everything’s fine, and then Maja gets jealous because they’re on air saying only good things about Stanija. Maja posts a status, Mevlida calls in again, and then I lose it, grab a screwdriver and smash my own phone myself!

His argument rests on the bloody hand. He claims that if she had broken the glass, the injury would be on her hand instead.

The practical upshot of this version is that there is no case to pursue. The injured party is the owner of the rented car, and Djurdjic says he never filed a report, since there is no one to report except himself. The only evidence left is on the car itself, which is still being driven around Belgrade with a hole in the windshield.

The show he skipped

Djurdjic did not show up at the Pink studio yesterday, even though he was due to sit across from Stanija Dobrojevic on the show “Elita, narod pita.” Instead, his parents, Mevlida and Mustafa, called in by phone. They said they were worried and announced they would call the police.

It was the second time in a short span that his parents had joined the broadcast without his consent. He criticized them for speaking publicly after he had explicitly told them not to, while Marinkovic reacted to the fact that they had chosen their words carefully when talking about Dobrojevic.

By his own account, here is how his day went:

• an argument in the car and a fist to the windshield
• two Bromazepam tablets and sleep
• 150 missed calls and a trip to her apartment
• his mother calling into the live broadcast
• smashing his own phone with a screwdriver

The face off with Dobrojevic never happened and remains unresolved. After the show, she spoke about a contract and a fee that Djurdjic had signed, in her account, under her name.

Today, a day later, the couple is back in the car together. The windshield is the only thing left of the whole story.