Bosnian justice has canceled the arrest warrant against the political leader of the Bosnia Serbs, Milorad Dodik, Friday July 4, wanted in a file for “attack on the constitutional order”, after the suspect's decision to be questioned by the prosecution, announced the prosecution and the Bosnian State Court in a joint 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 Bosnian Serbian entity, the Republika Srpska, 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. 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; 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 State prosecution then opened an investigation into its activities deemed to be secessionists, but its arrest seemed impossible and too risky in a divided country, where peace seems fragile, thirty years after a bloody intercommunity conflict (1992-1995).
However, Milorad Dodik has made several trips abroad, Serbia, Russia and Hungary. Bosnia and Herzegovine post-war period is divided into two autonomous entities, the RS and the Croato-Muslim Federation, associated by a weak central government.
Source: Lemonde