{"id":212981,"date":"2026-06-24T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=212981"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:04:05","slug":"tragedy-on-a-beach-in-zadar-former-hdz-councilor-and-representative-of-the-serbian-minority-beaten-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/tragedy-on-a-beach-in-zadar-former-hdz-councilor-and-representative-of-the-serbian-minority-beaten-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAGEDY ON A BEACH IN ZADAR: Former HDZ Councilor and Representative of the Serbian Minority Beaten to Death!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zadar police confirmed today that former Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) councilor Milan Dra\u010da was the man who died in hospital overnight from severe injuries sustained in a fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police in Zadar received a report of a fight between two men at 11:44 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found an injured 51-year-old man lying on the ground, according to Index.hr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was transported by ambulance to Zadar General Hospital, where he died during the night. The other man involved in the incident was taken into police custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">READ MORE: <\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3cF2qtoPi3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/srbi-ujedinjeni-oko-dece-i-karadjordjevica-srpski-kamp-ce-sledece-godine-u-vrnjackoj-banji-okupiti-mlade-iz-cikaga-i-otadzbine\/\">SRBI UJEDINJENI OKO DECE I KARA\u0110OR\u0110EVI\u0106A: \u201cSrpski kamp\u201d \u0107e slede\u0107e godine u Vrnja\u010dkoj banji okupiti mlade iz \u010cikaga i otad\u017ebine!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201eSRBI UJEDINJENI OKO DECE I KARA\u0110OR\u0110EVI\u0106A: \u201cSrpski kamp\u201d \u0107e slede\u0107e godine u Vrnja\u010dkoj banji okupiti mlade iz \u010cikaga i otad\u017ebine!\u201c \u2014 Serbiantimes.info\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/srbi-ujedinjeni-oko-dece-i-karadjordjevica-srpski-kamp-ce-sledece-godine-u-vrnjackoj-banji-okupiti-mlade-iz-cikaga-i-otadzbine\/embed\/#?secret=19AEZdzKwB#?secret=3cF2qtoPi3\" data-secret=\"3cF2qtoPi3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Milan Dra\u010da, born in 1975 and known by the nickname Lalo, was a well-known figure in Zadar and a versatile individual active in both political and social life within the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In public, he often emphasized his unique identity. He declared himself ethnically Serbian, but was also a longtime member of the HDZ and a volunteer veteran of the Croatian War of Independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He entered the Zadar City Council as a representative of the Serbian national minority on the HDZ list. 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Police in Zadar received a report of a fight between two men at 11:44 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found an injured 51-year-old man lying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":212982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117,13238,319,1251,10832],"class_list":["post-212981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkan","tag-hrvatska","tag-milan-draca","tag-nasilje","tag-tuca","tag-zadar","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213014,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212981\/revisions\/213014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}