Bosnian justice, on Friday, July 4, canceled the national arrest warrant against the political leader of Bosnia Serbs, Milorad Dodik, sought in a file for “attack on the constitutional order”, after the suspect’s decision to be questioned by the prosecution, the prosecution and the Bosnia Court of State announced in a common statement.
“The suspect Milorad Dodik voluntarily presented himself on July 4 before the Bosnia and Herzegovina prosecution, with his lawyer, to be questioned as a suspect as part of the investigation”said these two sources, adding that the request for its detention had been “Canceled” and that he had immediately been released.
Milorad Dodik, 66, who is president of the Republika Srpska (RS), the Serbian Bosnia entity, was wanted since March 18 by justice for having recommended the prohibition for the country’s police and justice of the country to exercise on the territory of the Serbian entity. He thus reacted to his conviction by the Bosnian State Court, to Sarajevo, a year in prison and six years of ineligibility for the 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; An appeal decision should soon be announced.
But Mr. Dodik had rejected this verdict by denouncing a “Political trial”. And he had then encouraged the Parliament of the Republika Srpska to immediately adopt laws to prohibit the country’s central police and judicial institutions from exercising in the Serbian entity, on 49 % of the country’s territory.
The Prime Minister of the Serbian entity and the president of his parliament also sought
The State Prosecutor’s Office then opened an investigation into these activities deemed to be secessionists. The Prime Minister of the RS, Radovan Viskovic, and the president of his Parliament, Nenad Stevandic, are also sought in the same file. Mr. Dodik had refused a judicial invitation to Sarajevo, to be questioned in this case, which had earned the issue of the arrest warrant.
“This is an important thing for me, but it is also important compared to those who were malicious and who wanted destabilization, an escalation of problems in Bosnia through this affair”said the manager on Friday on a public television channel. “I don’t feel triumphant. I am tired of all this ”he added.
His arrest seemed impossible and too risky in a divided country, where peace seems fragile, thirty years after a bloody intercommunity conflict (1992-1995). Bosnia and Herzegovina in post-war period is divided into two autonomous entities, the RS and the Croato-Muslim Federation, associated by a central government.
Under arrest warrant, Milorad Dodik moved within the Serbian entity in the presence of members of an elite police unit of this Serbian entity, and even made several trips abroad, in neighboring Serbia, but also in Russia and Hungary. Seized by Bosnian justice, Interpol had however refused to disseminate a red notice against the manager.
Secessionist laws canceled
Mr. Dodik will now have to appear regularly before the police, and a new detention may be ordered in the event of a violation of this measure.
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After questioning it, the prosecution can now decide a possible charges in this file. However, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia – which Mr. Dodik does not recognize either – has canceled the secessionist laws of the Serbian entity at the end of May, whose adoption had caused one of the most serious political crises since the end of the war.
The skills of the Bosnian central government have been strengthened over the years after the war, to the detriment of entities, and often under Western pressure. Thus the central police and justice were set up.
