Sloba Radanovic Stopped by Police After Pale Concert
The singer was pulled over during a routine check on his way home from a show, and it turned into a request for a photo with the officers.
Sloba Radanovic was stopped in Pale during a routine police check on his way home from his own concert. Footage of the encounter with the officers was released today, September 1, and it shows the real reason the singer stepped out of the car.
Radanovic performed in Pale for the Velika Gospojina holiday. The square was packed with fans singing along to his biggest hits, from older songs audiences have known for years to material that only just came out.
In front of the crowd in Pale, Radanovic performed his newest song, Pozvacu te, live for the first time. The track won the audience over within minutes, and people sang along even though it had only recently been released and they could not have known every line by heart.
After the show came the drive back to Belgrade. Radanovic rode in the passenger seat while his driver was behind the wheel. Near Pale, police pulled the car over for a routine check, the kind every driver on that stretch of road goes through, regardless of who is inside.
Once the officers approached and saw who was actually in the car, the stop took a very different turn. They did not ask for documents or check for any violation, since there was none. Instead, they asked Radanovic to step out so they could take a photo with him, just like ordinary fans would on the street.
The singer got out of the car smiling, chatted briefly with the officers and agreed to pose for the photo. At no point, as far as the footage shows, did he seem nervous or in a hurry to get back in the car. After a few minutes of conversation and photos, the officers wished him a safe trip to Belgrade and let him continue on his way.
The whole scene was caught on camera. Footage from the road near Pale was made public today, September 1, and it clearly shows the singer getting out of the car, posing with the officers, exchanging a few words with them, and returning to his seat before the drive to Belgrade continued.
In the space of one day, Radanovic first performed Pozvacu te live for the first time in front of a packed square in Pale, then became the unplanned star of a roadside scene with police on the way to Belgrade. Neither moment was announced beforehand. Both happened spontaneously, on the same day and as part of the same Velika Gospojina tour stop.
No official comment has been released by either side, not from the singer and not from the police. The footage itself, though, says enough. Radanovic did not object, did not rush and did not seem caught off guard. He spoke briefly with the officers who stopped him, posed for a photo with them, and calmly continued on toward Belgrade as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
For the singer, it was a quiet end to a day spent on the road, a day that began with a concert on a packed square in Pale and continued with a routine check that turned into smiles and a photo with police. Neither scene was planned in advance, but each one, in its own way, marked the same trip from Pale to Belgrade for the singer and his driver.
The footage from Pale remains a small, unplanned footnote to what was otherwise an ordinary drive home from a show, an episode in which the leading roles, instead of the singer and the crowd on the square, briefly went to the singer and the police officers on the road.
