Bosnian justice issued, Thursday, March 27, an international arrest warrant against the political leader of the Bosnia Serbs, Milorad Dodik, suspected of attack on the constitutional order, which is currently in Israel, the Court of Bosnia announced.
“The State Court received on March 26 the prosecution's proposal to launch an international arrest warrant” Against Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska (Serbian Republic, RS, the Bosnian Serbs entity), the court said in a statement, adding to having “Emitted” A “Order” To this end, and specifying that the request should now be validated by Interpol. The international arrest warrant was also issued against the President of the RS Parliament, Nenad Stevandic.
According to the court release Milorad Dodik and Nenad Stevandic crossed the country's border “By avoiding legal border control procedures”. The two leaders have already been targeted since March 18 by a national arrest warrant, as is the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Radovan Viskovic. Mr. Viskovic has not left the country since, and his name is not mentioned in the court release.
They are investigated after the adoption at the end of February by the Parliament of the RS of legislation prohibiting justice and central police in the country to exercise in the Serbian entity. Milorad Dodik refuses to respond to the summons of the State prosecution to be questioned in this file, and he has not yet been arrested, the operation being considered too risky by the authorities.
One year in prison
He left Bosnia earlier this week, to go to Serbia first, then to Israel to participate in an international conference on anti -Semitism. The border police opened an investigation to find out how he was able to leave the country without being checked at a border post. Mr. Stevandic also went to Serbia, but he then returned to Bosnia.
Dodik was sentenced at the end of February to a sentence of one year in prison at the end of February, accompanied by a ban on exercising his functions for six years, for non-compliance with the decisions of the High International Representative responsible for enforcing the Dayton Peace Agreement (1995) in Bosnia.
According to the Dayton's agreement-which ended the intercommunity war which killed nearly 100,000 people between 1992 and 1995-, Bosnia and Herzegovina was divided into two autonomous entities, the RS and the Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation, unified around a low central state.
Source: Lemonde