[4] He continued his education in the United States, where he finished fourth grade of high school through an international student exchange program.

After Franković came back to Croatia, he enrolled the Rochester Institute of Technology and obtained a high school qualification Associate in Applied Sciences.

[10] The event honoured fallen Croatian Defence Forces soldier Mate Vučko Čigra and was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Tomo Medved and other officials.

[10] Franković's use of the phrase, historically associated with the Ustashe regime and later adopted by the Croatian Defense Forces in 1991, sparked a public debate.

[10][11] Franković subsequently explaining that the greeting deserves condemnation when associated to the quisling Ustaše regime but asserted his belief that the phrase symbolized legitimate resistance in the 1990s.