Glamorous daughter of a Serbian warlord is forced to sing for her cab fare

The glamorous pop star daughter of Serbian warlord ‘Arkan’ has told how she was mugged during a trip to Paris and had to serenade the taxi driver with one of her hits to get back to her hotel.

Anastasija Raznatovic, daughter of Serbian warlord Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic and famous singer Svetlana ‘Ceca’ Raznatovic, recently followed in her mother’s footsteps and launched her own pop career.

The singer, 21, was recently visiting the French capital Paris with her friend Nevena who revealed they were robbed in the street.

Anastasija Raznatovic, daughter of Serbian warlord Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic and famous singer Svetlana ‘Ceca’ Raznatovic, recently followed in her mother’s footsteps and launched her own pop career

Anastasija Raznatovic. The taxi driver kindly agreed to drive the two friends and even refused cash from the pair once they got back to the hotel

Nevena told local media: ‘We were in Paris together, shopping and sightseeing, when I realised I left my purse behind. Meanwhile, as we were shopping, they mugged Anastasija and she was without her purse too!’

After realising they had no money to pay for a taxi back to the hotel, the Serbian singer reportedly told a cab driver that she was a pop star in her home country and offered to serenade him all the way to the hotel as payment.

The taxi driver kindly agreed and even refused cash from the pair once they got back to the hotel.

Anastasija, who is often compared to Kim Kardashian, boasts nearly a million followers on Instagram

Anastasija released her debut single ‘Savrseni Par’ (‘The Perfect Couple’) last year and the music video has racked up over 53 million views on YouTube

Her follow-up hit ‘Rane’ was released in March this year and has reached 62 million views on YouTube

Anastasija released her debut single ‘Savrseni Par’ (‘The Perfect Couple’) last year and the music video has racked up over 53 million views on YouTube.

Her follow-up hit ‘Rane’ was released in March this year and has reached 62 million views on YouTube.

Anastasija, who is often compared to Kim Kardashian, boasts nearly a million followers on Instagram.

Her glamorous 46-year-old mum ‘Ceca’ is a huge star in Serbia, where she has been recording music since 1988 when she was a teenager.

Parents: Anastasija’s mother Svetlana (left) is a Serbian pop star who performs under the name Ceca, while her father was feared warlord Arkan (right)

Her glamorous 46-year-old mum ‘Ceca’ (pictured) is a huge star in Serbia, where she has been recording music since 1988 when she was a teenager 

Her dad ‘Arkan’ was the commander of a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars called the Serb Volunteer Guard, also known as Arkan’s Tigers. 

He was later indicted by the United Nations for crimes against humanity during the wars.

He was gunned down in January 2000 in a hotel lobby in the capital city Belgrade before standing trial.

At the time of his death, there were three Interpol warrants out for Arkan’s arrest.

Arkan, whose real name was Zeljko Raznatovic, founded the notorious paramilitary group Arkan’s Tigers – the most feared and brutal unit during the ethnic cleansing of Croatians and Bosnian Muslims. 

Her dad ‘Arkan’ (pictured) was the commander of a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars called the Serb Volunteer Guard, also known as Arkan’s Tigers

He was reputed to be one of the few Serbs to be trusted by the tyrant who led the killings, Slobodan Milosevic – but former US negotiator Richard Holbrooke said in his memoirs that even Milosevic was fearful of the warlord. 

Arkan recruited fighters from jails and among football hooligans.

He married Anastasija’s mother in 1995. 

Their marriage was branded a ‘Serbian fairytale’ in the country’s media, with the couple having met while Ceca was performing for her soon-to-be husband’s paramilitary group. 

WHO WAS NOTORIOUS WARLORD ARKAN? 

Arkan (pictured in 1999) faced 24 indictments for crimes against humanity when he was assassinated

At the time of his death on January 15, 2000, Arkan had been indicted by the UN for 24 crimes against humanity.

Born in Slovenia, the son of a Yugoslavian air force officer fell into a life of petty crime.

He was later convicted for bank robbery in Belgium, Holland and Germany, and there were arrest warrants for him in Sweden and Italy.

Serbian mobster Goran Vukovic recalled: ‘Of all of us, Arkan robbed the most banks. He walked into them almost like they were self service stores – banks were his speciality as well as escapes from prison.’

He was reputed to have been a government assassin, and became the most powerful crime boss in the Balkans.

He founded the violent Serbian Volunteer Guard, which became known as Arkan’s Tigers, and fighters became involved in fighting in the Yugoslav wars in 1991.

The unit was implicated in atrocities including the Vukovar hospital massacre, in November 1991, which saw hundreds of patients, mainly Croats, rounded up and taken to deserted fields, where they were executed.

In 1996 Arkan took over football club Obilić, having previously been in charge of Red Star Belgrade’s supporters club – from where he recruited hooligan fans to join his paramilitary.

In 1999 the UN announced he faced 24 charges of crimes against humanity.

Before he could be tried, however, Arkan was assassinated in the lobby of Belgrade’s InterContinental Hotel, by a junior member of a police mobile brigade.

Members of the Serbian Volunteers Guard, also known as Arkan’s Tigers, carry the warlord’s coffin after he was killed in January 2000

Arkan and Ceca married in February 1995, in a wedding branded a ‘Serbian fairytale’