Dr Igi: 'I Would Have Killed Someone'

Dr Igi, the musician whose real name is Igor Todorovic, appeared on the Sportcast_podcast, a show published on TikTok and YouTube, and looked back at a hidden camera prank from 1996 involving Dalibor Andonov Gru, Nebojsa from the group Montenigers, and Nigor. During the conversation he said a line that has since spread across social media: that if no one had stopped him back then, he might have killed someone.

The hidden camera segment was filmed thirty years ago, at a time when Dr Igi was at the peak of his popularity. According to him, he did not know the members of Montenigers at the time and knew Gru only in passing, so he took their joke seriously. He said the man behind the camera was the actor Milenko Zablacanski.

“That hidden camera wasn’t fair… I know they really meant what they were saying. People do all kinds of things in the heat of the moment, and if they hadn’t stopped me there, I might have killed someone.”

In the same conversation, Dr Igi revealed that he carried a gun in his car during that period, with a permit, as he stressed, and that he later handed it over to the police. What drew the most reaction was not the hidden camera story itself, but the way he listed what had since happened to the people who took part in it. Gru died on September 9, 2019, Nebojsa from Montenigers has also died, as has Milenko Zablacanski. Nigor, according to what Dr Igi said, survived a serious illness.

Judging by the comments under the posts sharing the clip, it was the part about his late colleagues that bothered the audience the most.

“You know who was directing, behind the camera? Milenko Zablacanski, may he rest in peace. Is Montenigers’ Nebo dead? Is Gru dead? Did Nigor have a serious illness and barely survive? Don’t mess with Dr Igi, God protects Dr Igi.”

Niggor also reacted to the statement, sharing the clip on his Instagram profile with a short, three-word comment.

“God help him,” Niggor wrote on his Instagram profile, alongside the shared clip of Dr Igi’s statement.

There is a discrepancy over Nigor’s name between the outlets that reported the story. Mondo refers to him as Igor Lazic, while Espreso writes that his name is Nigor Lazic.

The podcast clip drew hundreds of comments on social media within hours. Most users judged the way Dr Igi referred to his late colleagues as inappropriate, given that these are people no longer alive to respond to him. Some comments also pointed to Dr Igi’s earlier interviews in which he spoke about his own loneliness, linking that to the tone he used when talking about his deceased colleagues.

Neither Telegraf nor Espreso report that the podcast host pressed for further details after Dr Igi mentioned the gun in his car, nor that any of the other participants in the 1996 hidden camera segment have publicly responded so far, aside from Niggor. The hidden camera footage itself, according to what Dr Igi said in the same conversation, is still available on YouTube, and he said he would try to get it taken down, even though he admitted he does not hold the copyright to it.