– This is the second humanitarian tournament in beach volleyball in our organization. Last year, we directed all the collected income for the treatment of ten-year-old Stefan Vladimirović from Bor, who suffers from one of the most severe forms of autism, and this year all the collected funds are planned for electrification of the bells of the Church of St. George in Bor. Bor Church is one of the few that does not have electrified church bells, so we thought that this was an opportunity to help and facilitate the work of priests in our Orthodox church – says for Informer Dalibor Jović, president of the Association “Fighters for Bor”.

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It is hoped that this year’s humanitarian tournament in beach volleyball on Lake Bor will have a great impact and gather as many teams as possible in order to fully realize the intentions of the organizers with the collected funds. The registration fee for this year’s whip volleyball tournament is 600 dinars per team application, and since it is a humanitarian tournament, teams can pay a larger amount of money.

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June 25, 2021 – 22:15

Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis city police officer, was sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison for the murder of African-American George Floyd in May last year.

The decision was announced by a court in Minnesota. Judge Peter Cahill said the sentence reflected the “cruelty” of the murder.

“The pain has been felt all over the country, but most importantly we need to recognize the pain of the Floyd family,” he said.

Prosecutors had demanded he be sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Prior to the sentencing, former police officer Derek Chauvin offered his “condolences” to George Floyd’s family.

Chauvin, in April, pleaded guilty to murder.

Floyd, 46, an African-American, was killed by a white police officer who pressed him to the neck with his knee for more than nine minutes during the arrest procedure. The event took place in May 2020.

His death sparked protests against racism and police violence in a number of cities in the United States and beyond, and pushed forward police reform efforts nationwide.

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May 05, 2021 – 08:28

The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of killing African-American George Floyd has called for a new trial, saying the court abused its information on several counts and that the guilty verdict should be overturned. due to the misconduct of the jury, it is stated in a court document submitted on Tuesday.

Former white police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty last month of killing African-American George Floyd on May 25 last year. Evidence at trial showed Chauvin held the knee to Floyd’s neck for 9 and a half minutes while the African-American was saying he could not breathe and later was not moving.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson cited many reasons in his request for a new trial. He said Judge Peter Cahill abused the court’s information and violated Officer Chauvin’s right to a fair trial and a fair trial when he denied Mr. Nelson’s request to move the trial to another district because of prior publicity.

He also said Judge Cahill abused when he denied an earlier request for a new trial because of publicity during the proceedings, which attorney Nelson said threatened the justice of the trial.

Attorney Nelson also raised the issue of refusal by Judge Cahill to seize the jury for the trial or to warn them to avoid all media, and for his refusal to allow a man who was with George Floyd at the time of his arrest. his to testify in court.

Nelson asked the judge to reverse the decision on the grounds that the jury had behaved inappropriately, felt pressured and / or failed to follow the jury’s instructions, although it did not include details about this allegation. Requesting the withdrawal of a decision raises doubts about its validity.

The document did not mention recent reports that one of the jury members took part in an Aug. 28 march in Washington to honor civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

That jury member, Brandon Mitchell, defended his actions, saying the event was to commemorate the 1963 Washington March and was not a protest against the death at the hands of African-American police George Floyd. Floyd’s brother and sister, Philonise and Bridgett Floyd and relatives of others who had been shot by police, delivered speeches at last summer’s march, writes VOA.

Nelson did not immediately respond to a message for further details on his allegations of misconduct by jury members.

In his craft shop, in the old craft part of the city at the Customs, even though he is 86 years old, grandfather George still sews. Less than before, but you can still hear the sound of his “pfaf” machine, which he brought second-hand from Paris half a century ago.

“Beautiful hat of my father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, I am proud to wear you and I am proud of you, shajkacho. Buy to renew and preserve the tradition, thank you “, the shop says.

ZG

– Eh, I used to sew everything, including men’s suits, women’s costumes, coats…, and now I have reoriented only to scarves, hats, general’s hat, vest and chakshira for folklorists. I go to fairs, in Guca I missed only the first Trumpet Festival in 1962, at the Rakijada in Sljivovica, I am a regular at Ravna Gora, in Belgrade, but my hookers wear heads all over the world from Europe to Australia and America. Someone also likes these officer’s hats that I make, the kind that Zivojin Misic wore – says grandfather George.

Especially interesting are the small crochet hooks, which are 10 times smaller than a normal hat. These are souvenirs, and one even ended up with President Aleksandar Vučić.

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– I was at the plum fair in Osecina four years ago, when President Vučić also came across it. I took my little nail clipper and gave it to him. He took it and I wanted to tell him that he had to keep the old crafts, but the security moved forward and left – the old tailor remembers and adds that the souvenir of the seamstress is sewn as well as straight, according to the pattern, but that it is not easy to bend fingers around it.

ZG

He made grandfather Đorđe to order and shajkače whose circumference is a whole meter. He sews them all from a military kangaroo of gray-olive color or black tea.

George was born in the Uzice village of Kacer. His father first sent him to a blacksmith’s shop, but the master told him “that he still had to eat bread to be strong enough for a hammer”, so he brought him home. A year later, at the age of 14, in 1949, he started a tailor’s trade in the then Tailoring Cooperative. After two years, although by some rule it took three years, he passed the exam for journeyman, sewed the jacket on his own. He stayed there to work for a whole decade.

– At that time, business was booming. Everything was sewn, and then ready-made goods came, which began to conquer the market. Then I reoriented myself to nail polishes. And in 1965 I went as a tourist to Paris. And first I looked for a tailor shop.

ZG

I showed the master what I knew and started working for him. He suggested that I stay permanently for 500 francs, but I want to go to Yugoslavia. Now, I think that if I had stayed there, I would have had a pension of 1,000 euros, and not 30,000 dinars – the old tailor sorts through his memories and says that he also finished high school in Economics.

He spent 31 years in the service, but did not leave the tailoring trade. He used his annual vacation of one month and another month of unpaid leave to go to Paris and earn a few dinars more, in order to finish the house. That’s how he worked for 15 years. When he retired in 1994, he opened his own tailoring shop.

ZG

– From then until today, no one has brought a child to ask if I can teach him a trade. I am the last craftsman of that type in this area, and there are no more coopers, blacksmiths, shoemakers… – says George with the set.

His eyes lit up when his granddaughter appeared at the door.

– This is my granddaughter Jana. Sometimes he comes to me and helps by adding parts to me, and I sew them. Here, if someone needs a nail clipper, he knows where he can find me – says George.

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