Why did no one arrest Milorad Dodik?
Numerous accusations
Dodic is therefore on the US and UK sanction list. He is said to run the Republic of Srpska as a family business. According to Transperies International, the vast majority of public procurement is provided to businessmen from the Dodic family and his friendly circle.
The fear of collision with Dodik
State police in Bosnia and Herzegovina have so far refrained from arresting the Serbian nationalist. According to the ARD, the police leadership is dominated by the belief that a collision with Dodik’s armed security would be too risky. In addition, there are fears that if the Bosnian-Serbian police are shot on the street, it will cause a rebellion among the population.
Citizens are still behaving so far, but almost no one clearly approves Dodik’s conflicts with Bosnian justice. The president has many opponents, writes German socio-legal media. This is confirmed by a survey conducted in the central city of the Republic of Srpska – Ban Luka.
« For 15 years, I maintained Dodik, but found that he was just a corrupt career, » says a retiree. A young man adds: « It would be best for Dodic to be arrested and to have corruption and crime in our country to be a complex end. » An elderly woman wishes Dodik and his « his gang » to be closed to the former Yugoslav island-prison naked edema and there « to share stones. »
Under the threat of a long stay in prison
The longer nothing happens and Dodik remains free, the greater the damage to the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Arrest orders have been issued against Dodik, and also against the Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska Radovan Viskovic and Parliament Chairman Nenad Stevendic. A long stay behind the bars, Ard writes. Politicians have been charged with violation of the constitutional order in the state. But they never appeared before the prosecutor’s office.
Unconstitutional laws
Dodik, Viskovic and Stevendic have participated in the preparation of a number of unconstitutional laws in the Republic of Srpska, explains Ard. They provide, for example, the state bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina – including the police, the prosecutor’s office and the courts, to have no access to the territory of the Republic of Srpska.
The first sentence is a fact since February
The first case against Dodik has already been held, the German socio-legal media reports. At the end of February at first instance, he was sentenced to a year in prison and a six -year ban on the post, as he imposed illegal legal acts in the Republic of Srpska with decree. According to these acts, the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the High Representative of the International Community for Bosnia and Herzegovina do not apply in the Republic of Srpska. However, Dodik refuses to accept the sentence.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina prosecutor’s office wants to issue an international arrest warrant. But he could not expect cooperation from either Israeli or Serbian services, Ard notes.
