Mina Kostic Police Mall Incident: Three Statements
Store security called police over a black garment in the singer's backpack. Mina Kostic gave three media outlets three different statements, and her fiance Kasper responded on Instagram.
Mina Kostic has responded after an incident at a clothing store in a Belgrade shopping mall, where security called police over an unpaid garment. Outlets report that a black item of clothing was found in the singer’s backpack. She gave three media outlets three statements, and they are not the same.
Neither the mall nor the store is named in any of the reports.
What allegedly happened in the store?
Store security called police, who arrived at the scene shortly afterward. The backpack the singer carried as she left the shop allegedly contained an unpaid black garment. According to sources cited by Kurir and relayed by Informer, Mina said at the time that she did not know whether the clothing ended up in the backpack by accident or on purpose.
Kurir also writes that the singer tried to use an acquaintance to influence the police, in order to avoid further detention and a misdemeanor report. Alo and Republika carry this claim, but only as taken over from Kurir. There is no confirmation from a second source.
What did Mina Kostic say about the incident?
She first answered briefly for Blic, and Republika published the statement in the evening hours of November 6:
Please, that’s nonsense. It’s not true, no
Mina Kostic said this to Blic.
For Pink.rs she added an explanation, relayed by Informer:
No, of course it’s not true. That’s nonsense, I went to exchange a blazer, and they thought that…It has nothing to do with the truth
The third statement came in a phone call with Alo. The singer confirmed then that she had been in the store:
I was there, yes. I went to return something
Asked to explain what exactly had happened, she said:
That item is only 10,000 dinars, I really wouldn’t do that… There was a mistake, it’s a mistake
After that sentence she hung up, Alo reports.
So to Blic and Pink she denies the allegations, to Pink she says she went to exchange a blazer, and in the conversation with Alo she says she went to return something and that it was a mistake, adding that the item was worth 10,000 dinars.
What did Kasper say on Instagram?
The singer’s fiance, businessman Mane Curuvija Kasper, also spoke up. Telegraf relayed his post on November 7 at 8:41 a.m.:
The only thing my Mina stole is my heart, and that is the one and only truth, my dears, everything else made me laugh a lot, and I believe it made laugh all of you who know who and what kind of person my Mina and your Mina is
What is officially unknown?
As of November 7, no official statement from the police or the prosecutor’s office has been published. It is also unknown whether a criminal or misdemeanor report was filed. For now, everything mentioned publicly is either an allegation by the media or a statement by the singer herself.
Alongside this story, Informer recalls earlier claims by singer Sandra Resic that Mina Kostic took 500 euros of tip money from her. Singer Boris Stjepanovic told the same story at one point. In the reports we read, there is no response from Mina Kostic to those claims.
