Ljuba Zemunac
| Ljubomir Magaš | |
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Magaš' mother Rosa holding a photograph of her son.
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| Born | 27 May 1948 Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Died | 10 November 1986 (aged 38) Frankfurt, West Germany |
| Other names | Ljuba Zemunac Tomislav Spadijer Duško Hudjec Giovanni Angelis |
| Occupation | gangster |
| Criminal charge | rape, murder, racketeering, armed robbery |
| Criminal status | deceased |
Ljubomir Magaš (27 May 1948 – 10 November 1986) was a Yugoslav amateur boxer, streetfighter and gangster. He was commonly known by his nickname Ljuba Zemunac (Ljuba from Zemun).
A three-time convicted rapist in Yugoslavia, Magaš rose to become a Yugoslav mafia crime boss and one of the most influential figures in the Frankfurt underworld during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986 he was murdered by rival gangster Goran Vuković.
Born to a Croatian father, Šime Magaš, from Nin and a Serbian mother, Rosa Ćurčić, Ljubomir spent his early youth in the Belgrade neighbourhood of Zemun. At age six, his father abandoned the family. He stayed out of trouble for the most part while living in Zemun, but after his mother moved the family across town to the Zvezdara neighborhood in his pre-teens, he took up boxing and streetfighting at Radnički boxing club.
His nickname "Ljuba Zemunac" ("Ljuba from Zemun") came from his original neighborhood. After finishing primary school he attended a trade school for auto-repair, but never finished it. For a short time he worked at the IMT tractor factory in Dobanovci. In addition to street fights, he started making threats and vandalism. The police become aware of him for the first time in 1964 due to a purse snatching incident.
For a 1965 robbery, 17-year-old Magaš was sentenced by the Belgrade district court and referred to an institution for juvenile offenders. A year later he repeated the offence and got sentenced again, this time by the district court in the Serbian city of Niš.
Violent by nature, Magaš continued brawling in public. One such fight broke out in 1967 at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Technology when Magaš beat up Vladimir Vučković, another student. Afraid of arrest, Magaš escaped abroad for the first time—briefly crossing into Austria. He built a reputation as a tough, vicious, aggressive, controlling and vindictive criminal. Many feared him and sought his company and approval, but even that was no guarantee of protection as he often turned on those close to him.
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