Following her death, Ines’s family was given access to her financial records, which showed significant transfers from her bank account to Djozlic’s. According to bank records reviewed by BIRN, in July 2024 alone, Ines moved more than 400,000 Danish kroner, or roughly 50,000 euros, to Djozlic’s account. She also paid for 500 euros worth of protein powder, often used by people trying to bulk up.
“The money slowly started running out somewhere in October [2024],” Alen said. “This is the period during which we heard he was becoming violent towards her.”
Alen alleged Djozlic was trying to force Ines to hand over ownership of her two apartments in Mostar; a written notary statement submitted as evidence in the trial said Ines had requested a “real estate gift agreement” be drawn up on November 29, 2024, only to quickly change her mind.
That was a Friday. Over the weekend, according to court documents, the neighbours heard the couple arguing. The noise continued into Monday, December 2.
When Natasa arrived, she said Djozlic was sitting on the sofa, typing on a phone, as Ines was bleeding out on the floor. The couple lived over the road from a paramedics station, but Natasa quoted Djozlic as saying he hadn’t called them because he “didn’t know the number”.
Basajlic, who worked on the renovation and maintenance of one of the properties Ines owned, and Natasa both went outside to alert the paramedics. When they returned, they both reported seeing a gun on the floor that hadn’t been there before.
“It was clearly planted there when Milan and I left the apartment,” Natasa told BIRN. According to court records, Basajlic also said he only saw the gun the second time he entered the apartment.
Ines was taken to hospital in an ambulance and pronounced dead at 8.20 p.m. Djozlic was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Ines’s death triggered protests across the country calling on authorities to address the threat of femicide.
Initially, however, many media reports reflected Djozlic’s account – that they had both taken cocaine that weekend, argued, and fought over the gun. Ines shot herself, he claimed, while he was trying to stop her.
Autopsy results presented during the trial do not mention traces of drugs in Ines’s blood when she died and her parents said she had always been against drug use.
The family says an apparent suicide note on Ines’s Instagram profile was in fact written by Djozlic while he was sitting on the sofa that evening, his girlfriend bleeding on the floor.
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