The Deen Show – The Life and Death of a Real Gangster from Bosnia Ismet Bajramovi elo
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The transcript describes the struggles of Citions' life, including his legal troubles and struggles with violence. He was a gifted torturer and a demolitionist, and eventually executed by the military police. He was eventually executed by the police again and was eventually set free. He became a woman’s leader and eventually found a new form of women’s control, with a new sense of life starting after drinking less and less going to the club. He started less and less going to the club, but eventually started less and less going to the club.
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Ismet Cielo Baramovich was born in Sarajevo on
the 26th April 1966.
His nickname, Cielo, Ismet was sentenced to 11
years in jail. He was sent to the
infamous Zeneca prison. Out of the 11 years
he was sentenced to, Chalo served 6 and
he was released in 1991,
becoming the godfather of Sarajevo.
When he exited jail, he started to work
as a debt collector for of the underground
in
Sarajevo,
and you really didn't want to avoid payment
to him since the police were on his
side. And let's just say he was a
gifted torturer and a demolitionist.
There are stories of nightclub owners not wanting
to give him his share of the pie
and his men professionally disassembling the building.
What Bayramovich
told his men to destroy had to look
like a quarry after the action.
He rapidly rose through the ranks of the
mob to become the most powerful criminal in
Sarajevo at that time. The nineties in Yugoslavia
were a very dark decade,
marked by ethnic wars from 1991 to 2000
and one. Ismet joined the military and actually
helped the defenders,
especially in two decisive battles for Sarajevo.
The first one was on May second, 1992,
in the battle for the presidency of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
They fought in Skenderia
against the special forces of the JNA from
Nis. The other battle was just 2 weeks
later on May 16, 1992,
the Battle of Pofalic.
Because of his heroic deeds in the two
decisive battles, Cello became a commandant for the
Sarajevo military police and his two friends became
deputies. Criminal groups were the first to enter
the military forces and defend against the siege
of Sarajevo.
They were not too keen to protect the
city from the attackers. They rather wanted to
protect their criminal territory.
And under the veil of war and the
military uniforms,
it was very easy to profit, especially as
a head of the military police.
At the beginning of 1993,
he was dismissed from the position of the
military police chief. Unfortunately for Cielo, he couldn't
profit for long because he was almost fatally
wounded.
In the fall of 1993,
he was shot by a Serbian sniper. The
shot barely missed his heart and he had
to be evacuated from the city and couldn't
return to the war until 1997.
He didn't sit with his arms crossed. He
tried acting in his downtime.
Chalo appeared in an episode of the PBS
program during that time. He also gave interviews
for Vanity Fair and The New York Times.
After the wars ended, a lot of nineties
mobsters were either dead, in the prosecution,
or made their way into politics.
Cello, on the other hand, continued his life
of crime. He was arrested multiple times for
a variety of charges, but was ultimately set
free a few weeks after the murder occurred
and Chalo as the leader was sentenced to
20 years in prison. But after almost 5
years behind bars,
his conviction was overturned and he was free
again. Death.
Remember the sniper wound to the heart? Well,
due to that injury and his unhealthy lifestyle,
his health began to rapidly decline.
Inhumane prisons in Bosnia at the time didn't
help either.
On 17th December 2008,
shocking news appeared in Yugoslavia. Izmet Cielo Bayramovic,
the godfather of Sarajevo,
former chief of the military police, T'asam a
criminal, and T'asam a hero, was found dead
in his apartment due to suicide.
He had shot himself in the temple of
the eye with a pistol, but unofficially, his
rapidly declining health was said to be the
motive. He always cared for himself and didn't
want to die as a sick old man.
He wanted to go on his own terms
with the ringleaders of organized crime and some
murders. Of course, no one wants to talk
about all this publicly.
And whether the stories circulating in Sarajevo are
true still stays unknown. Well I hooked up
with an individual that
I inspired to be like. When you watch
some of the other Goodfellas and you hear
about Al Capone, this individual
was the closest resemblance to those people, and
I wanted to be the top of that
lifestyle. And he took great care of me.
He took me into his home, his many
homes. He showed me around and said, pick
1. And I saw the lifestyle he had
that country. Basically,
it was his, and he was someone who
was who you didn't wanna cross.
And he was respected, and I took to
him,
and
we were very close.
Eddie returned to Chicago from Bosnia with a
new understanding
of the world.
In the same way, he demanded respect
and loyalty, this is something that I demanded.
And if I didn't get, then I took.
And I put fear in people
the same way he was doing.
Influenced by his father's work in the club
industry,
Eddie naturally began to seek out that path.
We worked for, for one of the largest
promoters in Chicago. Eddie worked for him and
I worked for him as well. Eddie was
one of the guys, one of the enforcers.
He used to run around. Basically just beat
up people. That was really Eddie's nature and
his essence.
Eddie was also a ladies' man. Eddie brought
a lot of the ladies. At any given
moment, he could have 7 to 8 women
that are running around the club looking for
him. While all of this was happening,
Eddie, who loved to fight,
found a new form of release
in Brazilian jiu jitsu. You know, there's 24
hours in a day, but it seemed like,
for 25 hours he was training. You know,
he was researching, training,
sparring, just, you know, was in love with
it. Jiu Jitsu, you know, change him, you
know. But jujitsu wasn't enough to keep Eddie
away from the cooler lifestyle. I know Eddie's
presence was very significant in the club. Everybody
knew Eddie. When he was dating one of
the hottest girls in the city, he decided
to get a, get a Harley, a chopper,
430, a nice new Mercedes. As the cool
became common,
Eddie began to have a new sense of
life.
We're about 6 months into,
owning this night club together. We were probably
drinking
6 nights a week because we're at the
bar all the time. So as training went
down, a lot of women went up. And
Eddie, I think, to this day may look
at God's way of kinda saying, yeah, you're
having fun but this isn't the way you're
supposed to be having fun. All the power
he possessed
still made him feel helpless.
As strong as he is and as intimidating
as he is as an individual,
it really didn't matter. There was no peace.
The glamorous life Eddie had been living felt
shallow and empty.
There was no peace of mind. Initially, when
we met, Eddie seemed pretty perfect.
The perfect lifestyle. All the women, all the
cars,
tough guy. He can do anything he wants
to do, runs around with his head up.
But as I got to know him, it
seemed it seemed flawed. There was things missing.
His physical being was great for his ego,
but it left him empty.
Feeling lost,
Eddie started searching for answers. Didn't take long
before Eddie was reminded of death. I was
in Brazil. I was maybe a week from
coming home and I was talking to my
brother on the phone. And then he asked
me a question in Islam like, did you
read this book? He wanted to make sure
in himself and inside his heart that that
was the truth. When my brother first started,
to learn Islam, he was so
enthusiastic.
It wasn't about forcing people to change.
Eddie's newly acquired knowledge allowed him to see
life
in a very different way. So he started
less and less going to the club. He'll
go to his parties but leave, like, be
there for an hour and leave.
Sometimes he wouldn't even show up and just
have, me and,
someone else run it. He kinda, like, wanted
to talk to people about Islam, but then
he was kinda being a hypocrite
because he was in the scene, and I
think it forced him more to get out
of it. Eddie had stopped drinking at this
point. Me and Eddie used to drink a
lot. Eddie used to drink maybe more than
me. At that point, Eddie had quit drinking
this over 2, 3 month time period. He
was praying 5 times a day. He was,
doing a lot of reading, a lot of
studying on Islam.
Giving up the old lifestyle proved to be
a real struggle for Eddie
but determined as he was,
he quickly adapted to the situation.
And that that first episode of that,
show
aired, I think that's when you saw the
full formation coming to to hope this guy's
changed. What's going on here? The Dean Show
combined with his passion for jujitsu
has made Eddie achieve goals he never thought
possible.
Eddie's purpose with the Dean Show was to
enlighten people
who might be in a similar condition
as he was in the past.
It is good for him to make up
for all those,
times that he missed doing what is right.
So, you know, and he probably realizes that
that's why he's working extra hard, you know.
Eddie continues his struggle to help people find
a way that has been lost to them.
For he himself
is an example
of redemption.
He is living proof
that if one puts his or her mind
to it, they can achieve anything.
If you want to do it and you
have a willpower, you can do it. And
if you if you have,
some support and some guidance, it is possible.
Being part of the biggest family of martial
arts, with over a few 100 students, in
the Dean Show, man, man, it's it's a
lot of work. He's he's a machine, you
know. If someone who knew Eddie,
in his youth, they would maybe predict that
he'd be dead or he'd be, in jail
or he'd be definitely
in in, on the, in the negative side
of life, you know, but to see someone
change, to see that their their whole,
their character changes, to see their, these these,
you know, countless changing positive changes in their
life,
It's a sign, of God.