Milorad Dodik, Serbian member of the triumviat which presides over Bosnia-Herzegonvina, was indicted on Monday September 11 by a court in Sarajevo. This event is the latest episode of the standoff between the representative of the Bosnian Serbs and the High International Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt.
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With our regional correspondent, Laurent Rouy
President of the Bosnian Serb entity, Milorad Dodik has been under indictment since Monday for refusing to implement a decision by the high international representative. This nationalist, who regularly threatens to organize the secession of the Serbian entity, has been loudly opposing Christian Schmidt for several months.
Thus, Milorad Dodik had, at the beginning of the summer, passed two laws to free oneself from the authority of Christian Schmidt and the Bosnian Constitutional Court. He also banned the High Representative from accessing the Serbian entity, threatening to throw eggs at him if he tried to come.
For many, Milorad Dodik, who has been creating one or two crises per week for several months, plays into Russia’s political game. One of Vladimir Putin’s rare allies on the European continent, he has visited Moscow several times since the start of the war in Ukraine. His maneuvers would aim to force NATO to intervene in Bosnia, to divert the aid that the military alliance provides to Ukraine.