Balkans: the arrest warrant against the chief of the Bosnian Serbs Milorad Dodik canceled by the Bosnian justice

Milorad Dodik, 66, who is president of the Serbian Bosnia entity (La Republika Srpska), has been wanted since March 18 by local justice for advocating the prohibition for the country’s police and justice to exercise on the territory of the Serbian entity. It was his reaction to the conviction by the Bosnian State Court of State, in Sarajevo, one year in prison and six years of ineligibility for non-compliance with the decisions of the High International Representative, responsible for enforcing the peace agreement in the country. It is a first instance verdict and an appeal decision should soon be announced. But Milorad Dodik had rejected this verdict by denouncing one “political trial“. And he had then encouraged the Parliament of the Republika Srpska to immediately adopt laws to prohibit police (SIPA) and central judicial institutions from the country to exercise in the Serbian entity, on 49% of the country. The State Prosecutor’s Office then opened an investigation into its activities deemed to be secessionists, but its arrest appeared impossible and too risky in a divided country, peace seems fragile Thirty years after a bloody intercommunity conflict (1992-1995).