Salko Zildžić, a representative of the Democratic Action Party, who is attending today’s session of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, told reporters that according to the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he did not commit a criminal offense, although he did according to the laws of Serbia.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has a license for the gun he owns.
He is a participant in today’s session in the Parliament because he is performing his representative duty, he said.
The court in Užice in Serbia recently sentenced Zildžić to one-year house arrest, according to the plea agreement with him, and he was tried because the border police found a gun in his car when Zildžić crossed the interstate border between BiH and that country.
After the verdict, he returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina and told journalists in the Parliament today that he was treated fairly in Serbia. He denied that during a routine control at the border, the police found any ID from the Intelligence and Security Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina in his possession.
He announced that he would consult with lawyers regarding the fact that some media in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that he had been found to have an identification card for this service, which he never had, according to him. That completely false media information, he said, caused great embarrassment in an event that was otherwise not easy even for his family, especially not for minor children, although everything was stoically endured.
The only identification he had at the border was the identification of the House of Representatives, as well as an identity card, i.e. personal documents.
He traveled to Serbia with the intention of seeing a friend and staying there for a short time, he said, and the incident at the border was the result of his recklessness, which is why the gun was in the car, an unconscious mistake and nothing else, he said.
Regarding the serving of the sentence, Salko Zildžić says that it is necessary to wait for the verdict from Serbia to reach the official addresses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Otherwise, he will fight for his rights, opportunities in this case, he added.
If, according to the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has to return the representative mandate, he will do so, but he will fight for what are legitimate rights, said Salko Zildžić, a member of the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament.
