Milorad Dodik announced that in response to the ruling of the Court of BiH against him, the entity authorities of Republika Srpska will adopt a series of laws today that will ban the work of state judicial and security institutions on the territory of the entity.
The President of the RS entity, sentenced in the first instance to a year in prison and a six-year ban on holding office, announced that RS will ban the work of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, the Court of BiH, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, SIPA and the Intelligence Service of BiH.
“They screwed up badly with what they did. They are completely naive. We have our reaction. As of today, there is no Bosnia and Herzegovina as you imagined. We are still offering you a constitutional BiH and you have a very short time to accept it, we will not wait for you long,” Dodik said at a rally in Banja Luka after the Court of BiH convicted him of disrespecting the decisions of the High Representative in BiH.
Emphasizing that he knows what he is going to do and that he needs the support of the people for this, Dodik said that he has already been called and supported by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
He stressed that he does not feel guilty, and called the process a “political attempt to overthrow” him and RS.
He insulted the judge of the Court of BiH who handed down the verdict, as well as the RS opposition, the High Representative and European representatives in BiH, calling the European Union “dead” and not hesitating to use swear words.
“They tell us about a stable Europe, and you see that it is dead. Which path should we take and which Europe? This is not Europe, nor the Germany of ten years ago. They have no leaders, no raw materials, no support from America, and they are in conflict with Russia as the only source of raw materials, and they still say they can do something,” Dodik said.
He directed the most brutal insults at High Representative Christian Schmidt, threatening him with arrest if he comes to the territory of RS.
“He does not deserve to pass through Serbian land. He deserves to be chased away with stones, because he was the first to commit violence, and we have the right to defend ourselves. We will defend ourselves at every turn and no one will persecute you for it,” Dodik said.
He said that the police and judiciary of Republika Srpska would “defend its Constitution from today on”.
He added that “the Muslim people are good” and that “no one should do anything against Muslims”, but that its politicians are the problem.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina today handed down a verdict sentencing Dodik to one year in prison and a six-year ban from holding the office of President of Republika Srpska, for disobeying the decisions of the High Representative in BiH.
The second defendant in this case, Miloš Lukić, has been acquitted of the charge of committing the aforementioned criminal offense, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed.
None of the accused or their lawyers attended the pronouncement of the verdict.
The verdict is a first-instance verdict and Dodik and Lukić have the right to appeal it, AA writes.
