The murder of a policeman in Bosanska Krupa opened up a series of questions, one of which was whether it was a terrorist act, a radical extremist ideology or something else? Who is responsible and who scheduled it? Family, institutions or society as a whole? Perhaps the most important question that arises is – how to proceed and what to do preventively?
Although there are disagreements about whether the tragic event in Bosanska Krupa should have been classified as a terrorist act or not, what everyone agrees on is that an attack on the police is an attack on the state and that such things must be sanctioned most severely. Regardless of the motives and age of the perpetrator.
“This is an alarm for the system to start working. And there is no forgiveness. There is no privileged person. No one belongs to this religion and this nation and will get away with it. Everyone must be sanctioned and it must be sanctioned in such a way that it serves as a warning to everyone else.” the Minister of Security of BiH, Nenad Nešić, points out.
The whole case is given special weight by the fact that the perpetrator of the crime in which one police officer was killed and another was wounded is a 15-year-old, that is, a minor. Could something like this have been foreseen and prevented? If so – who should have done it?
“Sometimes I have the feeling that certain, as I would say, sectors, ministries, and the system are sleeping in a kind of winter sleep. You know that’s the feeling I have. I get the impression that only when something happens, they try to water it all down in some ad hoc way” , says Mićo Letić, an expert on juvenile delinquency.
“We have people who work in institutions. It’s a system. People who work in institutions who have to, who are paid to provide solutions, not to ask questions. Not to invoice problems to citizens, but to provide solutions,” emphasizes security expert Nermin Pecanac.
Experts say that this problem cannot be dealt with only by the security sector, but by the whole society. For preventive action, all institutions of the system must be involved, but first of all the family and the education system, writes BHRT.
“My first question – where are the parents of those children. Where are the parents of the children who are radicalized every day on such content via mobile phones, via computers. This process of radicalization accelerated, behavioral change, means behavioral changes in such young people, the first who must notice it are parents and closest relatives,” says Vlado Azinović, an expert in the field of terrorism.
“If the family, as the primary agent of socialization, fails in the process of resocialization itself, then actually the school should complement that part. However, from the war until today, we do not have that educational element of children in primary education, but only of an educational character, which is why one is definitely missed a very important element”, claims professor of criminal psychology Sandi Dizdarević.
What our society does not pay enough attention to, say psychologists, is the mental health of all citizens, especially young people.
