Maja Marinkovic: I Reported Him to Police Over Threat

Reality star Maja Marinkovic said on the show Narod Pita on Pink TV, on Friday August 15, that she had reported Filip Car to police in Croatia. The reason, she said, was that cars had intercepted her while she was on vacation in Opatija with her partner Asmin Durdzic.

The couple spent three to four days on the coast and, besides Opatija, also visited Italy and Slovenia. We already wrote about the next leg of that trip, their stay in Venice. What was not known at the time is that the incident in Opatija happened before they left for Italy.

What happened in Opatija?

It started with a post on Instagram. Maja Marinkovic put up a story from the location where they were staying, and a message arrived soon after.

We had an unpleasant experience in Opatija. An hour after I posted a story that we were there, we got a message from his friend saying there were a few guys outside and that he should watch out, that certain things were going to happen to him.

She rejects the idea that going to Croatia was a provocation. She says people constantly come to Serbia and are well received there, while the reverse direction is read completely differently. That country, she added, does not belong to anyone in particular.

A few hours later they set out for dinner.

After four hours we set out for dinner and they cut us off with cars. Filip brought along a few guys, who I don’t want to name because they’re not to blame for this situation. One guy greeted me from the car, and then he told Asmin that Filip was looking for him, and that there were 15 guys at the gas station, with two or three cars behind him.

Behind that account stands only her word. Filip Car has not commented on the claims.

Report to police

Maja Marinkovic maintains that this kind of thing is not resolved on the street and that there was a calmer way to handle it.

I don’t think that’s how you solve a problem. He could have called him and come out to the hotel, while I stayed in the room, and they could have talked. This isn’t a street thing. What bothered him was that we were 30 kilometers from his house.

She then went to the police. In the report, she says, she listed three things.

I reported him to the police because I consider it a threat, along with the car chase, and also stalking. After that the two of them talked on the phone, and I chimed in.

The outcome of the report is not known at this point. Croatian police have not commented on the case, so there is no information on whether any proceedings have been opened. Until the relevant authorities decide, Filip Car is not charged with anything.

Durdzic: Matter closed

Asmin Durdzic was brief on the same show. Everything, in his words, was resolved over the phone.

We settled it, and that’s a closed topic.

He also revealed that he and Filip Car had spoken, and publicly admitted his own mistake from an earlier conflict.

Filip Car and I got in touch by phone. I want to say publicly on this occasion that I was wrong, because I cursed his whole family, and it came out as if I cursed his child. I apologize to his family too, because he never brought up mine anywhere. We agreed that he won’t bring up Maja anymore, and she won’t bring him up either.

The agreement, then, is mutual silence. Maja Marinkovic stuck to it in the studio too, as much as she could.

I didn’t feel comfortable, and I don’t want it to look like I’m bringing him up now and that I’m interested in this.

Timeline of events

What has been said so far adds up to a short timeline:

• vacation in Opatija, Italy and Slovenia, three to four days total
• Instagram story posted from the location in Opatija
• message from Car’s friend, an hour later
• cars intercepting them on the way to dinner, four hours after the message
• report filed with Croatian police
• phone call between Durdzic and Car
• trip to Venice

Despite all of it, Maja Marinkovic speaks of the vacation itself in glowing terms. Ahead of the show, she told Blic that it was beautiful, that people recognized them and approached them in Opatija, and that there was no proposal because, as she put it, it’s still early for that.

Her summary of the vacation was just as brief as Durdzic’s comment on the incident.

We spent three to four days on vacation, in Opatija, Italy and Slovenia. We didn’t have a single fight. We’ll go on vacation again when our schedules allow it.