American policeman Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing his African-American citizen, George Floyd, was stabbed inside prison yesterday, Friday.
According to the Associated Press, Chauvin was stabbed by another prisoner with him in a federal prison in Arizona.
Sources familiar with the incident indicated to the agency that Chauvin suffered serious injuries, and the prison staff provided him with first aid and sent him to the hospital, while the identity of the assailant or any other details about the case were not revealed.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that the FBI had been notified of the incident, along with suspending visits at the prison, which houses about 380 inmates.
The British newspaper The Guardian reported earlier that the US Supreme Court rejected the appeal of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The decision to convict Chauvin of the second-degree murder of African-American citizen George Floyd was confirmed and he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, according to the newspaper .
George Floyd was killed by police on May 25, 2020, igniting global protests demanding that his killers be brought to justice and an end to police brutality and racism around the world.
Chauvin, a white officer, pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for 9 and a half minutes outside the store where Floyd was suspected of trying to use a counterfeit $20 bill.
A bystander video showed Floyd's final moments as he called his mother and said: "I can't breathe," which became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Pfizer files a lawsuit against Poland over the "Covid-19" vaccine
The American pharmaceutical company "Pfizer" escalated its dispute with Poland, over excess doses of the "Covid-19" vaccine, which were ordered under a huge contract with the European Union.
The company is suing the state over what it claims is an incomplete contract for Covid-19 vaccines.
Warsaw was forced to buy tens of millions of doses under a controversial contract signed by the European Commission with Pfizer in 2021, on behalf of the European Union countries.
Pfizer is demanding $1.5 billion in compensation for 60 million doses rejected by the Polish government, after it stopped receiving vaccines in April 2022.
The European Union ended up ordering 1.1 billion doses under the contract, burdening countries with a glut of vaccines as the “Covid-19” pandemic subsided.
The EU Attorney General's Office has already announced an investigation into the purchase amid allegations of corruption and secret behind-the-scenes deals, while Polish Health Minister Katarzyna Swiecka has warned that other EU countries could be next to face prosecution.
Warsaw questioned the controversial role of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the Pfizer deal after it emerged that she had communicated privately for weeks with the company's CEO, Albert Bourla, during contract negotiations.
However, the European Commission claimed last year that her text messages with the head of the major pharmaceutical company regarding executive deals worth multi-billion dollars could not be found.
The first hearing in the Pfizer lawsuit is scheduled to be held in Brussels on December 6.
Earlier this year, the pharmaceutical company offered to give the European Union more time to complete its minimum purchases of vaccines under the binding contract, but insisted that the European bloc must pay in full for the number of doses specified in the contract.
Poland has since refused to sign the revised EU agreement with the drugmaker.
Soyka told TVN24 on Wednesday that there is some hope that the Pfizer lawsuit will be resolved “in a positive way.”
A Pfizer spokesperson told Politico that the company decided to move forward with the lawsuit “after a lengthy breach of contract and a period of good faith discussions between the parties . ”