After beating a Brooklyn student Miladin Kovacevic, a Serbian basketball player at SUNY, was helped by two diplomats to escape from U.S.A, they provided him a passport and the needed documentation to fly back to Serbia. Yesterday a Serbian court sentenced them. Igor Milosevic was given 18 months of jail while his chief Slobodan Nenadovic got a year suspended for not stoping Milosevic. Now, the criminal has been given a 27-month prison term. And the victim after three months of coma is nearly fully recovered.
As a conclusion this dispute create tensions between Serbia and the U.S.A and finally The Serbian government paid $900,000 to Steinhauer as compensation for the cost of medical treatment.
In my opinion, Serbian diplomats harmed Serbians position in many ways specially now that they are struggling to get the acces to the E.U. However, i think the title of the article is a little bit controversial and could even be claimed to be racist as it is generalizing the actions of three men with a whole country, i see the main idea, and i do agree that maybe even the punishment is not enough but, i don't think the tittle for this article is very appropriate. Also, i'd like to remark the fact that the Serbian government tried by all means to judge this criminals themselves as they were afraid Miladin Kovacevic might get death sentence.
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I agree with you, the title may not be appropiate. The action of two serbians shoul not shold not compromise the whole country. On the other side I believe that the two diplomats took advantage of their power and should be punish for that.I also agree that Serbia should be careful if the want to enter the EU.
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