Around 20 members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Republika Srpska (RS) were stationed on Thursday, April 24, in front of the administrative center of the government of this entity in East Sarajevo, a day after members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) were prevented from entering that building.
As the Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) reporter reports, police are blocking access to the building, in front of which a group of journalists are present, while there is no official confirmation whether the President of the RS, Milorad Dodik, is inside it.
The RS president's protocol stipulates that he will attend the opening of the University Rectorate building in East Sarajevo on Thursday at noon, and will then hold a meeting with the leaders of the Palle and Sokollac municipalities.
On Wednesday evening, RS MUP police officers prevented SIPA members from entering the Administrative Center building in East Sarajevo, while Dodik was holding a meeting with representatives of the City of East Sarajevo.
SIPA confirmed to REL that members of this agency had intended to act according to an order from the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that there was no use of force.
Dodik, along with the Speaker of the Parliament and Prime Minister of RS, Nenad Stevandic and Radovan Višković, is suspected of attacking the constitutional order, and investigations have been underway by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina since late last year.
In mid-March, a central arrest warrant was issued against them in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after they failed to respond to the Prosecution's summons to appear at a hearing.
Previously, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had asked Interpol to review its decision to reject the request to issue a red notice for the arrest of representatives of the RS entity leadership.
At the end of February, Dodik was sentenced in the first instance by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to one year in prison and a six-year ban on political activity for disrespecting the decisions of the High Representative.
A day after the first-instance verdict against Dodik, the RS People's Assembly adopted unconstitutional laws banning the functioning of four state institutions in RS./ REL
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