Desingerica Detained in Sutomore, 11 Minors Drinking
Montenegrin police raided rapper Dragomir Despic Desingerica's late-night show in Sutomore. Officers found 11 minors drinking alcohol, and the rapper was fined for having no ID.
- Montenegrin police raided Desingerica's show at a Sutomore nightclub between 2 and 3 a.m. on July 18.
- Officers found 11 minors consuming alcohol inside the venue.
- Desingerica and two other Serbian citizens were each fined 200 euros for having no ID on them.
- The club's owner and management were hit with fines totaling 11,200 euros.
Dragomir Despic Desingerica was detained overnight in Sutomore, Montenegrin and Serbian outlets confirmed. Police entered the nightclub where the rapper was performing between 2 and 3 a.m. on July 18 and found a situation that quickly turned into misdemeanor charges.
The check was not aimed at him personally. It was a routine field operation. What inspectors found inside the club, however, soon became the story of the day. Eleven minors were discovered drinking alcohol on the premises. Under Montenegrin rules that is a serious offense, and one that falls on the venue rather than the guest.
Desingerica was fined 200 euros, as Kurir and Informer report. Not for the performance, but because he had no personal documents on him, under the country’s law on foreigners. Two other Serbian citizens found in the club received the same fine. The rapper’s reaction to reporters was brief and unbothered. “Well, there’s nothing to say, they’re doing their job,” he said.
Who actually paid the highest price?
The biggest blow did not land on the performer, but on the club. The owner and the responsible staff were fined a total of 11,200 euros. The reason was several violations at once, chiefly serving alcohol to minors, but also a person working without proper authorization.
That figure makes it clear who is liable in the eyes of the law. A minor who orders a drink in Montenegro is not the one who bears the consequence, but the venue that served it. Desingerica’s 200 euros and the club’s 11,200 euros are not the same story, even if the headlines will often place them side by side.
For a rapper who has been in the spotlight nonstop in recent months, this is one more night that ended in a police report. His shows across the region long ago stopped being just concerts. Each one is an event in itself, with an audience filming everything and media tracking his every move.
Why is Montenegro on alert right now?
The raid did not happen in a vacuum. Just a day earlier, a petition was launched in Montenegro demanding a ban on Desingerica’s performances. The trigger was his conduct at an earlier show in Budva, which part of the public called inappropriate, especially where minors in the crowd were concerned.
In that climate, every inspection carries extra weight. When the public is already asking whether someone should perform at all, a police operation at the very show is inevitably read as an answer. Officially, it was a routine venue check. Unofficially, the timing is hard to ignore.
For now Desingerica remains free and, judging by his reaction, has no intention of making a fuss over the fine. The question is whether this is the end of the story or just the first in a string of incidents that will decide where he can and cannot sing this summer. What do you think, should the club bear all the responsibility, or should the performer also choose his venues more carefully?
