Natasa Alimpic to Sandra Capric: I Was Never a Thief
The singer told Kurir she may be a country girl but never a thief, after Sandra Capric told her to go back to the village she came from.
Natasa Alimpic rejected Sandra Capric’s insult that she is a “peasant” in a statement to Kurir, and returned the accusation that Capric stole tips at a gig. Capric had earlier told her colleague to go back to the village she came from.
Neither of the two articles we read gives the date of Capric’s remarks. Kurir says only that the singer “recently” went after her colleague. Alimpic answered in a statement to that paper.
What did Sandra Capric tell her colleague?
Capric said she would no longer mention anything that degrades her name, then turned to Alimpic:
From now and forever, I will not mention anything that degrades my name again. Some peasant who showed up yesterday, hatched out of nowhere, can’t sing and can’t even talk. She brags about Haris Dzinovic, she should be ashamed and go back to the village she came from.
The message had two parts: a vow to end the back-and-forth, and an insult aimed at her colleague’s origins and singing ability. Capric named Haris Dzinovic as someone whose name, in her words, Alimpic boasts about.
How did the dispute start?
Alimpic had earlier spoken publicly about tip theft among singers and musicians. According to Informer, she accused Capric of an unpleasant incident at a shared performance, and Kurir reports that she claimed to have caught Capric stealing tips. She said at the time:
I think it is far more common than people say. Things like that do no one any good, because we all work together, singers and musicians alike. We can’t do without each other. Stealing is utterly unacceptable.
The statement does not name Capric, but both outlets treat it as the trigger for the feud.
What did Alimpic say to Kurir in response?
Alimpic said, with a smile, that she accepts being a country girl but not the accusation that would go with it:
Compared to a thief, “peasant” is a compliment. Maybe I am a peasant, but I have never been a thief and never will be. I know where I came from and I am proud of it, and I didn’t know she was a Belgrade native, third generation at that, so I publicly apologize.
She went on to make claims about witnesses and a recording:
I don’t know why she got so worked up over my story that she stole tips at a gig, when it is true and there are witnesses. And second, that woman has stolen several times already, and she was caught in the act, it has been made public. There is a recording of her stealing earrings, it is all posted publicly, you can watch it. It isn’t my fault, but it is easier to spit on someone than to admit guilt, or illness in her case.
It helps to separate what she claims: the witnesses relate to the tips at the gig, and the recording to the earrings. Her statement mentions no recording of the tip theft. Our newsroom has not verified either the witnesses or the recording, and Kurir does not carry Capric’s reaction to these claims.
Alimpic closed her statement with a wish for her colleague:
I wish her all the best, and that she stops stealing, there is no need to embarrass herself.
What happened at the boutique in Budva?
In the same piece, Kurir recalls a case from June 2023, which it covered at the time based on a police report. The owner of a boutique in Budva stated that on June 19, 2023, an employee noticed a pair of crystal earrings worth 60 euros was missing, and that she herself, using a phone linked to the video surveillance, determined that Capric had taken them. She sent the singer a message on her official Instagram account, “Dear Sandra, return the earrings or bring the money,” and the reply, she said, came two hours later: “Okay.”
The owner also told police that on June 21 she received a phone call containing threats and insults. The singer was reported over it, but, as the owner stressed in the report, not for theft: for threats made against her and her company. Kurir does not carry Capric’s position on the incident in this piece.
