SARAJEVO: Bosnia's prosecutors on Wednesday ordered federal police to bring in ethnic Serb leader Milorad Dodik for questioning as part of an investigation into his alleged flouting of the country's constitution. Tensions have soared in the divided Balkan country since Dodik was convicted last month for defying Christian Schmidt, the international envoy charged with overseeing the peace accords that ended Bosnia's 1990s war.
Dodik has remained unrepentant after the conviction and helped push through laws forbidding federal police and judiciary from entering Bosnia's Serb entity in retaliation.
Federal police "received a request for assistance" to execute the orders of the prosecutor's office to bring in Dodik for questioning, Jelena Miovcic, a spokesperson for the police force, said on Wednesday. The request also called for other top leaders from the RS to be brought in for questioning.
Dodik later said he had no intention of responding to the latest order. "Let's see how they are going to try to arrest us," said Dodik during a news conference in the RS capital Banja Luka on Wednesday afternoon. — AFP
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