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00:00:00the Diklo waste dump has been officially closed since yesterday. At the same time, Diklo is also the main political topic in Zadar, due to suspicions that waste from Varaždin arrived at the Zadar landfill. Most is filing a criminal complaint against the relevant minister, representatives of the fund and cities, and the city.
00:00:16and popular Croatian singers, passed away
00:00:19on Saturday at the age of 86. His musical career
00:00:22spanning almost six decades was marked by numerous
00:00:26hits, and throughout his life he sold over 20 million
00:00:30records. Today, fans in his hometown
00:00:33of Šibenik are saying goodbye to the legendary
00:00:37singer, where they will gather at 5 p.m. and
00:00:41pay tribute with songs. Split will bid
00:00:44farewell to musical legend Mišo Kovač
00:00:48tomorrow at Poljud Stadium, starting at 4 p.m. with his
00:00:51most famous songs. The organization is
00:00:54signed by Hajduk Torcida and the Croatian Music Union,
00:00:58and admission will be free
00:01:00with mandatory free tickets. A commemoration is expected
00:01:03on Wednesday at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, followed
00:01:07by a funeral at Mirogoj. The dates
00:01:09for the Zagreb farewell
00:01:13are still awaiting official confirmation.
00:01:16Everyone knows that our Mišo
00:01:20Kovač has passed away.
00:01:22It's difficult for everyone,
00:01:25especially his family. Split has decided
00:01:27to organize a farewell
00:01:30worthy of our dear Mišo, which will be here
00:01:33at Poljud, on Tuesday at 4 p.m.,
00:01:37starting at 4 p.m.
00:01:40Uh,
00:01:42we will sing, Mišo
00:01:44Kovač's songs
00:01:48so that we can send off our Mišo
00:01:52properly. The organizers
00:01:55of the farewell are Hajduk
00:01:57Club, Split and the Croatian Music
00:02:01Union. We will show
00:02:04the soul of our Dalmatian city
00:02:08that we will remember him forever.
00:02:10Since all of this happened in Split, Split will
00:02:14honor him in that way, and his
00:02:16fans, uh,
00:02:20his music and Hajduk as
00:02:23a club that he
00:02:26adored.
00:02:31On this topic, in the meantime,
00:02:34my colleague, sports journalist from Index, Mr.
00:02:37Zvonko Alać, joined me in the studio. Zvonko, good morning,
00:02:40welcome to N1. Thank you for the invitation,
00:02:44although the occasion is quite tragic.
00:02:47Yes, well, I can express my condolences
00:02:50to you. I based this morning's
00:02:54conversation on this text you published
00:02:57on index.hr, which is actually very
00:03:00personal. In those pictures,
00:03:03you actually tell your story with Mišo through
00:03:07anecdotes, although it seems to me that
00:03:11this text has another perhaps higher value
00:03:14- where every reader might be able
00:03:17to identify with something. Can we start
00:03:21from that? Not everyone has read the text,
00:03:24so maybe you can briefly
00:03:26such personalities, describe what it's about and why you decided
00:03:30to say goodbye to Mišo Kovač in that way. "Mišo Kovač
00:03:34is one of my favorite singers. I love music
00:03:38very much, but Mišo Kovač is, as we all know,
00:03:41much more than music. He is a giant
00:03:44of a man, a great Croatian, not only in music,
00:03:48but in general. From birth, he followed
00:03:51me, as I was born and grew up in Dalmatia.
00:03:55Mišo is a comrade to every Dalmatian
00:03:57from birth to death,
00:04:00so it was no different with me. I especially consider
00:04:03Mišo Kovač to be the true
00:04:07singer of Dalmatians in Zagreb, which
00:04:10he himself was, because no one can so perfectly convey
00:04:14that nostalgia and longing for the homeland
00:04:18that is both so close and so far away.
00:04:22We all eternally swear that we will
00:04:26return, but in the end, we somehow remain
00:04:30in Zagreb for life. Mišo, towards the
00:04:33end of his life, remained true to his
00:04:37song and returned, but it is quite significant
00:04:40and greats from that Mišo chose Zagreb as his final resting
00:04:44place. This means that the circle closed
00:04:48from Šibenik, Split, and then Zagreb.
00:04:52These are somehow the cities that marked
00:04:55Mišo, his life, these are his, I think,
00:04:59greatest loves, Dalmatia and Zagreb. He somehow
00:05:02united all of that. Mišo, that text
00:05:06about Mišo is viral, it has a lot of
00:05:10reads, and I am very happy about that.
00:05:14I wrote it completely subjectively, I
00:05:18wrote it from the heart and
00:05:21from the heart. It is titled
00:05:24My Life with Mišo or A Little Bit of
00:05:28Life with You. I think both
00:05:31titles suggest what it is actually
00:05:35about and what my idea was.
00:05:39It just came out of me,
00:05:42I wrote it, I say, without
00:05:46thinking, but guided by my heart
00:05:50and emotions, because that is the way
00:05:52one should think and act about
00:05:56music and emotions, and that is the way
00:05:59I perceive Mišo Kovač. He somehow marked
00:06:03my life through all its phases,
00:06:07childhood, teenage years, adolescence,
00:06:09coming to Zagreb. I had the honor and great
00:06:13pleasure to cooperate with Mišo,
00:06:15uh, we were even something
00:06:18more than journalists and musical
00:06:22giants. We had some
00:06:25personal relationship, we used to hear
00:06:29from each other, see each other,
00:06:33and I am extremely honored and happy
00:06:36that I could call such a
00:06:39great man a person I'm good with, who is good
00:06:43with me. Now, was he,
00:06:46as you said, not only a Croatian great in terms
00:06:50of music, but also generally, but you had
00:06:53the opportunity to know him personally,
00:06:56so what will you remember him for in that
00:07:00private part that is unknown
00:07:03to most viewers? Mišo was a person
00:07:06larger than life, but in direct contact,
00:07:09he had a very strong apparent arrogance
00:07:13and haughtiness, but it wasn't
00:07:17like that at all. It might have
00:07:21seemed that way at first, but it
00:07:24simply came from his enormous, massive
00:07:27life experience, from everything he went
00:07:31through in life, from the lowest
00:07:34depths to the highest peaks. He traveled
00:07:37the whole world and sang about
00:07:41it several times. Everyone stepped
00:07:45aside for him, from statesmen
00:07:48and leaders to ordinary people.
00:07:51I was most fascinated by his incredible
00:07:54life stories, anecdotes,
00:07:58mmm, how he perceived various
00:08:02relationships among people, how
00:08:05he witnessed everything, and
00:08:09his impression and vision of all
00:08:13that. I was fascinated by how, when
00:08:16he sang about emigration during
00:08:19Yugoslavia, he performed in many clubs
00:08:23of the extreme Croatian right,
00:08:26pro-Ustaša oriented types, and
00:08:29he then ultimately demanded
00:08:33that in all places where he performed,
00:08:36Ustaša insignia be removed from
00:08:40the coats of arms, which, unfortunately,
00:08:43is normal in those overseas
00:08:47gatherings of Croats. Then he told me how
00:08:50in the 70s, 60s,
00:08:53he had a Citroën Maserati, with the
00:08:56remark that only he, the Pope,
00:09:00François Mitterrand and Brigitte Bardot
00:09:03had such a car. Or then, for
00:09:07example, his concert at
00:09:10Bundek, when he would interrupt
00:09:13the concert in the middle,
00:09:17at the peak of the atmosphere, he would
00:09:20simply spread his arms, tell
00:09:23the band to stop playing, and then he would make
00:09:26an announcement, like the one
00:09:29at Bundek in 2010: "I found out
00:09:32that Istria
00:09:34wants to secede
00:09:37from Croatia." Of course, that's
00:09:40not true, but we all stopped
00:09:44and listened to what Mišo
00:09:46would say next. Then he said,
00:09:50"I immediately called Ivan Jakovčić
00:09:54and told him, if he continues
00:09:58to insist that Istria wants
00:10:01to secede from Croatia, I will send
00:10:04him 200 of my Dalmatians, and
00:10:08they are crazier than Hezbollah."
00:10:12So, Mišo told such stories
00:10:15at concerts, entertaining
00:10:17and making us laugh, but also
00:10:21teaching us a lot.
00:10:25You just mentioned that his final
00:10:29resting place will be at Mirogoj.
00:10:31There is also his family sorrow there.
00:10:35In a way, he will truly find
00:10:38that final peace.
00:10:41Yes, we know that most people
00:10:45who, unfortunately, had the misfortune,
00:10:49actually the greatest tragedy a person
00:10:52can imagine, to bury their child,
00:10:55want to be united with them in death.
00:10:59From that perspective, Mišo's idea,
00:11:02which will be realized, is quite logical
00:11:06and reasonable. Uh, I consider
00:11:09it his final reunion with
00:11:13his unfortunately prematurely deceased
00:11:16son, but also a way to close
00:11:20that circle that began in Šibenik
00:11:23and continued throughout
00:11:25the world, but with
00:11:28a concentration
00:11:30on Dalmatia, and then Zagreb,
00:11:34the city that Mišo adored
00:11:37and in which he actually spent
00:11:40the greatest part of his life.
00:11:43Now I have a question.
00:11:47Before our conversation, I read that there
00:11:50will be these farewells
00:11:53in the cities of Dalmatia.
00:11:56I'm actually interested in your
00:12:00opinion: where is the line between
00:12:03paying respect and,
00:12:07uhm, and true, how should I put
00:12:11it, reverence for someone
00:12:14we have lost, someone who
00:12:17undoubtedly left us something
00:12:20that goes down in history in terms
00:12:24of his musical contribution, and where does that
00:12:27line get crossed into some kind
00:12:31of, you may not agree
00:12:34with me, but I would mention
00:12:37these annual farewells to Oliver?
00:12:41I will absolutely agree with you
00:12:44and I think the line has
00:12:47been greatly crossed in terms of good
00:12:51taste, reverence, and respect, that it now serves
00:12:55primarily for promotion.
00:12:59Self-promotion of people
00:13:02who push these ferries to Vela Luka,
00:13:06gatherings there, singing, because
00:13:10it primarily serves as a promenade
00:13:13of these vanities and egos from
00:13:17the entertainment industry, which
00:13:20encompasses sports to music,
00:13:23and I think Oliver is the
00:13:27least important thing there,
00:13:31and the most important thing
00:13:34for them is their self-production and
00:13:38posting on social media. A great
00:13:42man and great women should be
00:13:45given due and important
00:13:48honor, but not let it
00:13:52turn into bad taste and self-promotion
00:13:55as has been the case with Oliver
00:13:58for years, unfortunately. I don't know, for
00:14:02example, that cult, it reminds me
00:14:05of the time of beloved leaders,
00:14:08another Tito, Korean dynasties,
00:14:12or Stalin. For example,
00:14:23death, only plays Oliver's songs
00:14:27all day from 0 to 24.
00:14:30That is morbid to me and contributes
00:14:34to the birth of a personality cult
00:14:38that I had hoped we had left
00:14:40in some past times.
00:14:43So, reverence and respect
00:14:47for Mišo, yes, but not to grow
00:14:50into what is done for Oliver,
00:14:53absolutely not. And given
00:14:57Mišo's connection with Hajduk,
00:15:00given perhaps
00:15:04a different kind of significance
00:15:07that Mišo Kovač has for Dalmatians
00:15:11than perhaps Oliver, perhaps precisely
00:15:15because of this moment of these
00:15:18Dalmatians in emigration,
00:15:21who don't live at home,
00:15:25do you think there's a possibility
00:15:28that in the case of commemorating
00:15:30Mišo Kovač's passing, some
00:15:34will have similar ideas?
00:15:37Well, I sincerely
00:15:41hope they won't have
00:15:44such ideas, because if they were to
00:15:48do something like that, I think
00:15:51Mišo would rise from his
00:15:55grave and scold them severely.
00:15:58Tell me about the moment
00:16:01when people
00:16:13just raise their
00:16:14hands, as if Mišo
00:16:17is asking the audience to sing, who
00:16:21will be able to repeat that?
00:16:25Well, I didn't even like that
00:16:28so much about Mišo. This
00:16:31spreading of hands,
00:16:34I don't like it. I like it when
00:16:37at a concert the singer or
00:16:41singers sing, for whom we
00:16:44came. I always
00:16:45came to Mišo's
00:16:49concerts and gigs because of him,
00:16:52not so that he would spread
00:16:56his hands. In fact, it
00:17:00annoyed me a little. I preferred, come on Mišo,
00:17:03you sing,
00:17:20let's hear you, sing Mišo,
00:17:23let's hear you. Atypical,
00:17:26okay, atypical. Now, as
00:17:30for his legacy,
00:17:34it's not just Dalmatia,
00:17:37it's wider. People in the
00:17:40region listen to Mišo Kovač.
00:17:43At the same time, these
00:17:47veterans of the music
00:17:50scene, both in Croatia
00:17:54and regionally,
00:17:56because most of them started
00:18:00in the former Yugoslavia,
00:18:04are leaving. That one
00:18:06generation is actually
00:18:09slowly fading away
00:18:12and leaving. Will similar
00:18:15types reappear, and what did
00:18:19musicians like Mišo Kovač
00:18:23leave for the Croatian
00:18:25music scene?
00:18:28Well, I don't see anyone
00:18:31close who will fill the void
00:18:35that has already been created by Mišo's
00:18:38departure. There is no person
00:18:42with such charisma, such a life
00:18:46path, uh, such
00:18:49an ability to conduct
00:18:52and enchant the masses
00:18:56as Mišo did.
00:21:02Mmm. Perhaps I should
00:21:05just ask you one last question:
00:21:09what remains his greatest
00:21:12legacy? Mišo Kovač's
00:21:15greatest legacy remains the man
00:21:19who was a symbol, uh, a symbol
00:21:22of Dalmatia, but also a symbol
00:21:25of Croatia. The man,
00:21:29you mentioned correctly,
00:21:33of course Mišo was
00:21:36a symbol of Torcida and Hajduk.
00:21:40Let's not forget that
00:21:42Mišo, at all his concerts, always
00:21:46insisted on the unity
00:21:50of the Croatian north and south,
00:21:53and especially importantly,
00:21:56on ending the manufactured
00:22:00hatred between the
00:22:03north and south.
00:22:06He always emphasized that
00:22:09his son Edi was a
00:22:13member of the Bad Blue Boys
00:22:16and a Dinamo fan, and that his
00:22:20daughter Ivana was a Hajduk
00:22:23fan, a member of Torcida.
00:22:27And Mišo was somehow
00:22:30on that path. He
00:22:33was massively tattooed
00:22:36by Hajduk fans on their
00:22:40shoulders and arms.
00:22:44At the same time, Mišo
00:22:47was a man who adored
00:22:50and was a great Hajduk fan,
00:22:54but at the same time he loved
00:22:58Zagreb, he valued Dinamo and
00:23:02respected the intertwining
00:23:05of these great figures. He
00:23:09did not see them as having
00:23:13to cancel each other
00:23:15out or, God forbid,
00:23:19hate each other. So,
00:23:22a kind of bridge between these
00:23:25perhaps artificially manufactured
00:23:29differences and intolerance,
00:23:33Mišo was there in that way.
00:23:37Zvonko, thank you very much
00:23:40for this conversation and for sharing
00:23:43these private reflections
00:23:47and knowledge you had about
00:23:51Mišo Kovač. And once again,
00:23:55this is my colleague, sports
00:23:58journalist from Index, Zvonko Alać.
00:24:02Thank you for the invitation.
00:24:06Stay with us, in the continuation
00:24:10we bring you.
00:24:12Will the lithium processing plant
00:24:16in Gospić lose its building
00:24:20permit? While waiting
00:24:23for the decision of the authorities,
00:24:27the investor, who has invested
00:24:30more than 10 million euros
00:24:33in the project, announces a lawsuit.
00:24:37Citizens continue to
00:24:40warn of
00:24:43possible consequences for the environment.
00:24:47After the electoral victory of the
00:24:50student list, Serbia faces
00:24:54negotiations. on the formation
00:24:57of a new government, the takeover of
00:25:00institutions and real work, the
00:25:03to stop the accumulation of waste, were
00:25:07supposed to be adopted.
00:25:09However,
00:25:14the ruling majority rejected proposals
00:25:18for direct supervision
00:25:21over the Security and Intelligence
00:25:25Agency (SOA) and a new session
00:25:28with its representatives. More in the report
00:25:32by Katarina Plantak. SOA
00:25:36will not be The opposition is asking Mayor Šime
00:25:40Erlić for complete documentation on the reception, transport
00:25:44collection, processing and disposal of waste from January 1,
00:25:482021,
00:25:50until today. More in the report by Vesela Šegvić
00:25:52Kordić.
00:25:56Did waste from Varaždin end up at the Zadar landfill
00:25:59Diklo? The State Inspectorate, in response to... one
00:26:02states that such a thing was never
00:26:05established by supervision. The waste in question was processed in the Nbo
00:26:08plant in accordance with the waste management permit, resulting in,
00:26:12among other things, other waste, including mixtures
00:26:16of materials from mechanical waste processing that was handed over for further
00:26:20processing to authorized persons. From the bridge, they claim
00:26:23otherwise, they state that there are serious indications that part of the waste from
00:26:26Varaždin, instead of being properly processed and disposed of, ended up
00:26:30at Diklo. They demand that it be confirmed whether
00:26:33irregularities were committed, which is why they filed criminal charges against
00:26:37cities, the relevant minister of the fund, that a broader
00:26:40investigation is needed here to prove all
00:26:43facts about the remediation, not just
00:26:46the facts about the remediation of Varaždin's bales, but also about the garbage that
00:26:49is brought daily to the
00:26:52Dikla landfill in Zadar. The fund, however, refers to the city of
00:26:56Varaždin because they conducted the remediation procedure. The implementation
00:27:00of this was carried out by the city of Varaždin. through contracts and through
00:27:03technical documentation, it is defined how it must be carried out
00:27:07these questions refer to them, that is, to the city of
00:27:10Zadar and Čistoća, from which they repeat the words
00:27:13of the inspectorate. No baled
00:27:15waste came to the Diklo landfill, which was confirmed
00:27:19by the inspection's findings. At the request of
00:27:22the opposition, the mayor will provide the city councilors with all
00:27:26necessary documentation regarding the waste at Diklo, stating that nothing
00:27:29is being hidden. After that processing. and
00:27:33manipulation with it in Varaždin, it is impossible
00:27:35to determine how much, if any, of that came to Zadar in
00:27:39what quantities, but bales as bales as waste that we are
00:27:43talking about did not end up there, that was confirmed by Dirh. The Diklo
00:27:46landfill is covered with cameras, so if this case
00:27:50becomes the subject of an investigation, it should not be difficult to determine
00:27:53who entered and what was brought here. Vesela Šegvić
00:27:57Kordić, N1
00:27:58Zadar.
00:28:10Yesterday marked two years since the collapse of the concrete
00:28:13canopy of the Novi Sad railway station, in which 16
00:28:16together people died. No one has been held responsible for their deaths even after
00:28:20two years, although three
00:28:23separate court proceedings are underway. Tributes were paid to the victims in
00:28:27Novi Sad and other cities
00:28:29in Serbia.
00:28:36Wait, the place where those who travel, especially when the days are
00:28:39like this, for full six decades found
00:28:42shelter. For two full years, the place is a memory of those
00:28:45who, seeking respite and shelter under tons
00:28:48of concrete, lost their lives. At
00:28:5111:52, a silence fell over the Novi Sad railway
00:28:55station, to the verses of Dušan Kovačević, "only
00:28:58I am no more," Šantić's verses
00:29:02followed, "why are
00:29:04you not here, why are
00:29:07you not here."
00:29:12In order to set it up anew where it all happened,
00:29:16citizens from three sides of Novi Sad walked silently in columns,
00:29:19However, with reverence, but
00:29:21with hope. I hope for a collective healing, I am very sad
00:29:25that we are even in this place, that this tragedy happened, but I hope
00:29:29it is not in vain.
00:29:32"This nation that came shows that all this, in the end,
00:29:35gained some meaning, we expect that finally
00:29:38justice will be served, right,
00:29:42which is why all this started I hope we are worthy
00:29:45of these 16 souls who
00:29:49uh gave their lives, I would say
00:29:52this as a symbol of corruption that existed
00:29:56after which all this change started, so that what
00:30:00the change was initiated for has its own." is the name, students once
00:30:04again reminded: tragedy is not a word
00:30:07that adequately describes what happened on November 1,
00:30:112024. year?
00:30:14No, tragedy describes misfortune,
00:30:18an accidental event, and behind this word, one can
00:30:22cleverly hide the word we all
00:30:25seek, that is
00:30:27responsibility. Because of the awakened belief that in
00:30:31the new socio-political environment it will truly finally be
00:30:35achieved, today's commemoration is, journalist
00:30:38Dalibor Stupar believes, somewhat different from last year's.
00:30:41I saw a huge number of people crying, who
00:30:44were, carrying flowers and all the rest, on the other hand, this
00:30:47angle, I think that somehow everyone is more optimistic, that
00:30:51they somehow hope that maybe this will be the last time we are
00:30:55in doubt here, that maybe next year
00:30:59we will already meet with...