Nada Pucarevic Says She Met Golubovic in a Zvezdara Church
The woman (63) who filed a criminal complaint against Kristijan Golubovic describes meeting him at evening service, as prosecutors ask police to question witnesses.
Nada Pucarevic (63), the mother of a friend of Kristijan Golubovic, says she saw him for the first time since filing her complaint at the Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin on Zvezdara. She told her version of the encounter to Kurir, while the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade has in the meantime asked police to question witnesses and gather evidence.
Pucarevic filed a criminal complaint against Kristijan Golubovic. She claims he beat her in the yard of the house where Stela Savic used to live and took the house from her. Everything that follows is her account, and the proceedings are still at the evidence-gathering stage.
What happened in the church on Zvezdara?
By her account, the encounter took place a little over a month ago, during evening service. Golubovic, she says, was sitting across from her, accompanied by a woman she does not know. She had not seen him since filing the complaint, she says, because she spent every day going to doctors’ offices and therapy, and crossed to the other side of the street so she would not run into him.
The church, she says, is close to the house where she lived with her son. According to her, Golubovic had earlier threatened that she would have to deal with him whenever he met her, so she assumed he was waiting for the service to end in order to attack her outside. She describes the moment she noticed him:
“When I noticed him, I literally froze with fear”
When the service ended, Golubovic headed toward the icons. Pucarevic then approached the priest, to whom, she claims, she had already told what had happened to her. She relayed her words to him like this:
“Father, Kristijan is here, I can’t do this… You know he beat me and everything he did to me. I’m afraid.”
The priest answered her quietly, she says:
“The priest then quietly told me not to be afraid and not to worry about anything, that he would help me.”
Together they went to the choir stand at the side of the church and talked there. When the priest saw Golubovic coming toward them, he led her to the exit. “He took me out through some side door and saw me out of the church,” Pucarevic told Kurir. She adds that she does not know how that evening would have ended without that help.
What consequences does Nada Pucarevic describe?
Pucarevic says she could not sit for a month after the attack. She claims she has documented soft tissue injuries, that her heart was affected, and that because of headaches she needs another head scan. She has an autoimmune disease. Her son Filip has been hospitalized twice this year.
The other side has not responded to these claims. Kurir says it has been trying for days to reach Golubovic, but he does not answer the number the newsroom has. His side is therefore not included.
At the end of the conversation, Pucarevic said that nothing matters to her except the outcome of the proceedings: “All I care about is justice.”
What is the prosecutor’s office doing next?
The First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade has sent police a request to question witnesses and gather evidence in connection with the criminal complaint. The outcome is not known, and Pucarevic has in the meantime given statements to both the police and the prosecutor’s office.
We previously reported on the restraining order concerning Kristina that applies to Golubovic until January 8. That is a separate matter: Pucarevic is not that person, and her complaint is being handled separately.
