A hearing was held in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina today as part of the process in which the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and acting Miloš Lukić, director of the Official Gazette of the RS, accused of disobeying the decisions of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt.
Dodik arrived in front of the building of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina only a few minutes before the start of the hearing, where his supporters greeted him with applause and chants of “Mile, Mile”.
In front of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina today, among others, were the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željka Cvijanović, the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nenad Nešić and the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Radovan Višković.
After the hearing, Dodik left the building of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and was not in the mood to answer questions from journalists.
The main trial against Dodik, after several prolongations, was opened on February 5, and against Lukić on February 13, since the proceedings against them were temporarily separated at the hearing on January 17, after Lukić did not attend the trial for health reasons.
In the meantime, Lukić’s defense requested the merger of the proceedings, and Dodik’s defense sent a motion to disqualify the judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sena Uzunović, who was hired in this case instead of the former judge Mirsad Strika, who is retiring soon.
Let us remind you that the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Milorad Dodik and Miloš Lukić for disobeying the decisions of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The indictment states, among other things, that Dodik and Lukić committed the criminal offense in the period from July 1 to July 9, knowingly, even though they knew that the High Representative had made a decision to repeal the Law on Non-Enforcement of Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted by the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.
On October 16, at the hearing in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dodik and Lukić said that they did not understand the indictment, after which it was concluded that the accused pleaded not guilty.
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