The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has transferred the hate speech case filed by former concentration camp inmate Satko Mujagić against Milorad Dodik, president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), to the Banja Luka District Public Prosecutor’s Office, Detektor was confirmed.
The Banja Luka District Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to Detektor that they had received a report regarding Milorad Dodik’s public appearances for the competent authorities and that the case was under investigation, but did not provide us with any further information.
The State Prosecutor’s Office previously stated that “the case, which relates to several reports, including the report by Satko Mujagić from Prijedor regarding Milorad Dodik’s public appearance in a program on RTRS, was transferred for further processing to the Banja Luka District Public Prosecutor’s Office by a decision of the prosecutor made on March 30, 2026”.
“You can direct any further inquiries regarding the aforementioned case to the aforementioned prosecutor’s office”, reads the Prosecutor’s response, which was also forwarded to Mujagić after the inquiry.
Mujagić, who survived the Omarska and Manjača concentration camps, filed the complaint in 2021, a few days after Dodik said on an RTRS show in August of that year that Bosniaks were “a subject people, there are not enough of them, they do not have sufficient capacities, they are not a state-building people, a people without character,” because he believed that these statements could be labeled as hate speech.
Mujagić tells Detektor that he has not yet been informed why the case was transferred from the State Prosecutor’s Office to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Banja Luka after four years.
“So, it took the BiH Prosecutor’s Office over four years to remember that the case should be processed by someone else? Considering that the case has already been transferred once from the entity authorities to the state, and now back, after five years, to the entity authorities again, I can say that these people in the Prosecutor’s Office are either not doing their job or are ordinary amateurs if it took them more than four years to remember that they are not competent or are deliberately delaying, which is an abuse of power… I hope that it will be a little faster in Banja Luka, everyone should be given a chance, and then conclusions can be drawn,” Mujagić told Detektor.
Mujagić previously said that on August 10, 2021, he gave a statement to the police in Kozarac regarding this report. He recalls that in September 2021, the case was transferred from the Prijedor District Public Prosecutor’s Office to the BiH Prosecutor’s Office, where he gave a statement to Prosecutor Oleg Čavka in December of that year.
In mid-January, Mujagić filed another criminal complaint against Dodik with the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH for inciting national, racial and religious hatred, discord or intolerance during a pre-election rally of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) in East Sarajevo. According to the complaint, which Detektor previously reported, on November 10, 2025, at an SNSD pre-election rally in East Sarajevo, Dodik made a speech in which he made a series of statements about Bosniaks, whom he called “Muslims” and “Turks”, “subjects”, accusing them of lies, Islamization and domination over Christians.
Disappointed with the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH in response to these reports, Mujagić says that he will file a disciplinary complaint with the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (VSPC BiH) against Milanko Kajganić, the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, and the prosecutor acting in the case based on his complaint against Dodik. Mujagić points out that the law stipulates that the Chief Prosecutor represents the Prosecutor’s Office, manages its work and supervises the work of all prosecutors.
Detektor previously wrote that the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH decided not to prosecute the complaint against Milorad Dodik for inciting religious hatred during a speech at a pre-election rally in which he said that “Muslims are moving like amoebas” into areas where Serbs live.
The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH initially confirmed that it had opened a case, but soon announced that it had been transferred to the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in East Sarajevo. State prosecutors determined that the statements did not constitute a criminal offense of inciting national and religious hatred, so they transferred the case to the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in East Sarajevo, with the suggestion that it be prosecuted as public provocation and incitement to violence and hatred.
Detektor’s previous research revealed that Dodik is the largest single source of hate messages in BiH. He was the politician with the most statements that could incite the spread of hatred recorded in the database during 2022, but only one investigation was conducted against him at the time and not a single indictment has been brought to this day for hate speech, which continued during the election campaign at the end of last year, Detektor writes.
