Dragan Ašanin, who entertained Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, ministers in the Serbian government and prominent members of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) on Christmas Day, who took turns in the studio during the hour-long show, is a convicted murderer. transmissions H1.
They said that this was confirmed to them by the Higher Court in Belgrade.
As stated in the court's response to N1's inquiry, Dragan Ašanin was found guilty of the criminal offense of murder by the District Court's verdict of May 26, 1993, which was overturned on May 19 of the following year.
They add that he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, which includes time spent in custody.
KTV journalist Nemanja Šarović previously announced that Dragan Ašanin, who sang for Aleksandar Vučić, Ana Brnabić, Dragan J. Vučićević and numerous ministers on Informer television for Christmas, was convicted of murdering an 18-year-old girl.
"His victim, Jasmina Đorđević, was only 18 years old when Ašanin fired three bullets at her. The murder was committed in front of Jasmina's twelve-year-old brother! Ašanin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder," Šarović wrote on the social network Iks, adding:
"All this did not bother Aleksandar Vučić, Darko Glišić, Ana Brnabić, Dragan Vučićević, or numerous other ministers who celebrated one of the most joyful Christian holidays, Christmas, with Ašanin. Shameful."
Due to the songs performed in the program, which featured almost the entire Serbian state leadership, N1 reports, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, also reacted, stating that the public performance of songs and other content that can be perceived as disparaging, stereotyping or hostile towards ethnic or religious communities is not in line with the values of equality, mutual respect and social cohesion that Serbia protects through the Constitution, laws and its policies, nor with European standards in the field of human rights.
Antonijević also stated in the statement that public events and media programs, especially those taking place in the presence of the highest state officials, carry increased responsibility regarding the messages sent to the public.
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