Virtual Christian

When computer crime is mentioned, we usually think of identity and credit card number theft, database break-ins, child pornography... Kristijan Golubović, one of the most famous characters of the Belgrade underworld, gave this term a whole new meaning: he is from a prison cell in Pozarevac Zabeli set up his website (www.kristijangolubovic.net) where his admirers can find out details from Golubović's turbulent life, buy posters with his image, exchange thoughts and inquire about how he spends his days in prison.

Christian's website, set up a little over a month ago, opens with an excerpt from his as yet unpublished biography Ja: "I was born in Munich on November 30, 1969, the same year my own sister Christina was born, only eleven months later. What kind of fate is it that I start from a single attempt of my father to make a son and the same night he is taken to life imprisonment. This whole situation hints at the course of incredible events of one life, my life..." The book was also announced Ja ?, which the author says contains "aphorisms, rhymes and sayings that came to my mind, so I wrote them down along the way, and it is related to everyone and everything." Both books, it is said, will be on sale soon, and they will be followed by an exhibition of the fine works of this versatile convict.

TERRIBLE BIOGRAPHY: Until the mentioned books come out, we have to remind the readers about his career so far. Although he was born in Germany, Golubović grew up in Belgrade, where as a young man he hung out with Milorad Ulemek Legija, who was still called Cema at that time. As a minor, he engaged in hooliganism, fights and tapping cinema tickets, and later moved on to more serious matters, such as serious thefts and burglaries, not only in his homeland but also in Italy, Germany and Greece... He became known to the general public after his spectacular escape from the building At the Fifth Municipal Court, when he jumped from the second floor and broke both legs. He was helped in his escape by Branislav Trlajić, known as Bata Trlaja, who hid him in Belgrade, and then took him to Erdut to Željko Ražnatović Arkan. However, after seeing the wounds in Erdut, he clashed with Trlajić because he was stealing the cars of Bata's friends.

In the early nineties, Golubović came into conflict with the so-called Voždovac clan, which at that time was one of the most dangerous in Belgrade. As murders on the streets of Belgrade were already frequent, a friend allegedly advised him to take refuge in Greece. "I had two solutions: to blow up the entire Vozdovac clan in the 'Fresca' cafe, where they used to gather, or to listen to my friend," said Christian afterwards. Before leaving, he managed to appear in a cult documentary We see se u obituaries, as one of the main characters. He became famous with the sentence "I have reliable information for Judge Falcone that he was killed with two tons of dynamite and only he and his bodyguard were injured."

He quickly ended up in prison in Greece, from where he was released on parole in 1998. As soon as he came out, someone tried to kill him: he survived eight gunshot wounds. He was soon arrested again, for car theft and robbery, and received a total of fourteen and a half years in the famous Malandrino prison. After four and a half years of imprisonment, the Greeks decided to court him, so they deported him to Belgrade in the spring of 2003, in the middle of Sablje.

After returning from a multi-year "vacation", Golubović found a completely different Serbia: most of his friends were dead or in prison, and his friend Cem/Legija was on the run. Already in June 2003, he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for some old extortion, and already the following year, the special department of the prosecution for organized crime filed an indictment against Golubović for possessing a weapon and trying to extort a jeweler. He was legally sentenced in August 2006, to four years in prison, and sent to serve his sentence in Zabel. From there, he gave an interview for the New Year's issue of the tabloid "Kurir" last year, in which he said, among other things, that in his book he would reveal "who prepared the list for the liquidation of 300 important people in Serbia and Montenegro, and who carried them out." "I will change the course of history," said Christian.

MOBILE, DAGGERS I VIDEO TAPES: Let's go back to Golubović's website. In addition to the mentioned beginning of the autobiography and a large number of photographs, the presentation also contains two short videos, which are claimed to have been recorded in the beginning of 2006 in the Central Prison. On one of them, Christian is celebrating something with his prison mates, and on the table, next to food and drinks, there are three mobile phones. In another video, Golubović waves two handmade daggers and smiles broadly. We tried to ask the Prosecutor's Office if any investigation had been launched in this regard, given that detainees are strictly prohibited from possessing mobile phones and cameras (not to mention daggers), but by the time this issue was closed we had not received an answer.

Like any good portal, Golubović's site also has its own forum, where about a thousand participants, mostly fans, have signed up so far. Christian, fondly called "Wings" by the forum members, has the status of administrator, and his avatar is a photo of him grinning and smoking tompus, while five royal crowns float above his head, while his comments and replies are written in bright red letters. In Zabela, by the way, he is sitting in the famous seventh pavilion, reserved for the most dangerous convicts, where apart from him, some of those convicted for the assassination of Zoran Đinđić are serving their sentences and where his old friend Ulemek will soon join him. When it comes to prison conditions, Golubović writes the following in a post dated December 25: "For example, today, I didn't train or go for a walk because there has been no water since this morning!" These are the human rights of Serbia in the 21st century... If I were in Greece, the entire prison would be razed to the ground, I remember the rebellion in Patras, a prisoner found a nail in a dish and at the same moment 205 prisoners of Pavilion G refused food, captured the cook and set fire to the kitchen with devices worth 150.000 euros! The Minister of Justice personally removed half the guard and quelled the rebellion. Something similar has never happened again, and now the kitchen is better than in the hotel, and here in this country if you find a dragon in the food, they will give you some communist explanation..."

Dragoljub Brajović, the manager of Zabela, told Politika last week that Golubović does not have access to a telephone or a computer in that institution, and that he is a "prisoner for example". Perhaps the manager could learn something from his cadets and join Golubović's forum himself. There he could read the post that this exemplary prisoner sent on January 22, as a comment on the mentioned text in "Politica": "So much trouble and uproar from my any move! On this site, everyone will see the real truth about me, maybe it bothers them, because all they say is lies and hate speech! It bothers someone that I have something to advise generations of different ages, young people especially those who are negative towards crime or criminals! Main motto: Sport and school to a healthy and successful life! School and sports against every vice! Drug addicts can't learn, they can't even do push-ups!

I have countless more messages for all those who want to hear them, and I believe that all those people on this forum are there to hear something more from someone who has been through too much in life... It is not forbidden for anyone to create a website and communicate with people all over the world... But they have their own sites, but they are probably so empty that the envy of our rating crushes and suffocates them! They would do anything to make me disappear forever... Well, I won't make them happy! I am here and always will be!"

Golubović should be released from prison next year.