Kovačević shooting hoops, not hiding

Miladin Kovačević’s stop at a training session of the Vrbas basketball team has elicited an angry reaction from U.S. media.

Izvor: Blic

Monday, 18.08.2008.

10:23

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Miladin Kovacevic’s stop at a training session of the Vrbas basketball team has elicited an angry reaction from U.S. media. According to daily Blic, the Serbian Justice Ministry is trying to broker talks between U.S. officials and the family of the runaway Serbian student. Kovacevic shooting hoops, not hiding One offer is to hire an American attorney to speak to the New York state prosecutor about trying to reduce some of the charges against Kovacevic. Kovacevic is accused of assaulting fellow student Bryan Steinhauer, a crime that carries a potential sentence of between five and 25 years in prison if found guilty. Journalists who saw him in Vrbas say that Kovacevic did not look like someone who was hiding. “He looked calm while he was warming up. He did not want to speak with reporters, but he was not hiding from the cameras,” writes the Daily News. After the publication of the latest photographs of Kovacevic, Senator Hillary Clinton said that it was unacceptable that he was living a normal life in Serbia, while Steinhauer’s family was praying every day for their son’s recovery. Obrad Kesic, a political analyst in Washington, told Blic that Clinton and other Democrat senators could engineer a blockage of financial aid to Serbia if Kovacevic was not extradited to the U.S. to face charges. Miladin Kovacevic (blic.rs)

Kovačević shooting hoops, not hiding

One offer is to hire an American attorney to speak to the New York state prosecutor about trying to reduce some of the charges against Kovačević.

Kovačević is accused of assaulting fellow student Bryan Steinhauer, a crime that carries a potential sentence of between five and 25 years in prison if found guilty.

Journalists who saw him in Vrbas say that Kovačević did not look like someone who was hiding.

“He looked calm while he was warming up. He did not want to speak with reporters, but he was not hiding from the cameras,” writes the Daily News.

After the publication of the latest photographs of Kovačević, Senator Hillary Clinton said that it was unacceptable that he was living a normal life in Serbia, while Steinhauer’s family was praying every day for their son’s recovery.

Obrad Kesić, a political analyst in Washington, told Blic that Clinton and other Democrat senators could engineer a blockage of financial aid to Serbia if Kovačević was not extradited to the U.S. to face charges.

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