The Communications Regulatory Agency (RAK) will investigate ex officio allegations about a report that caused a series of reactions, broadcast on the entity public broadcaster RTRS, about the purchase of apartments in East Sarajevo, in which the number of apartments purchased by Bosniaks is counted and it is stated that this will “lead to consequences for Serbs”, it was confirmed to Detektor.
At the beginning of the report in the show “Pečat” which was broadcast on December 18, 2025, the host states that the data shows that hundreds of apartments in East Sarajevo have been purchased by Bosniaks from Sarajevo in the last decade, which, she adds, is permitted by law.
“The craze for square meters in the former Serbian Sarajevo is mainly explained by the affordable price. However, citizens and officials from East Sarajevo recognize dangerous trends in this,” the RTRS report states.
The report was broadcast after former Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik spoke during the election campaign in East Sarajevo about Bosniaks who are “spreading like amoebas” and buying apartments in East Sarajevo. The SNSD president criticized the local government, led by the SDS mayor, for these trends.
In the introduction to the report, the host of the show Nada Veletić claims that dark images from the past are returning when, at the beginning of the war, and then “during the exodus”, the current residents of East Sarajevo “had to leave their homes in federal Sarajevo because their Bosniak neighbors wanted it that way”.
“Today, those neighbors are rushing to embrace them, wanting to live with, as they like to say, ‘genocidal Serbs’. The reason remains a mystery, and perhaps it is not a mystery, but a well-thought-out plan to control this part of Republika Srpska by buying real estate,” the report by journalist Gvozden Šarac states at the beginning of the report.
The Mayor of East Sarajevo, Ljubiša Ćosić, claims in the program that the “trend is dangerous” and that “we could have a problem”.
“We are persistently evading, and they are persistently coming after us. This is a strategic plan of primarily the Bosniak political elite – seizing territory for potential future showdowns,” claims political scientist Filip Matić in the program.
The RAK has repeatedly fined RTRS for violating the rules, but an earlier analysis by Detektor showed that the number of fines has decreased since Draško Milinović, who came from RTRS, became the director of the agency.
The RAK confirmed to Detektor that the Agency had received individual complaints about the program content.
“The Communications Regulatory Agency will ex officio act in accordance with the Rules on the Procedure for Resolving Violations of License Conditions and Regulations of the Communications Regulatory Agency, and investigate the allegations regarding the report broadcast in the RTRS show ‘Pečat’,” the RAK told Detektor.
