28 minutes agoBosnian Intelligence raises alarm for the presence of Wagner members and Night Wolfes
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Bosniak intelligence data shows that members of the Russian mercenary group '%Wagner's, members of the Centiary Movement and members of the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolfes will participate in the January 9th Republika Srpska Day celebration. Bosnia's Security Minister [...] has confirmed this for Radio Free Europe.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Security Minister Selmo Cikotic has confirmed this for Radio Free Europe, stressing that it is data from intelligence and security structures.
These are some extreme and radical groups, which have long been present in this area and we expect them to be there on January 9th. As far as I know, none of them have officially made that known to”, Cikotic said.
In Republika Srpska, an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 9th is celebrated as Republika Srpska Day, even though Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court has declared that date unconstitutional in two cases.
The central celebration with a formal parade will be held east of Sarajevo, unlike in the past years, when January 9th was celebrated in Banja Luka.
On Friday, January 6th, Cikotic sent a letter to EUFOR commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina Anton Wessely, in which he warns security threats concerning the January 9th commemoration of the Sarajevo area.
On paper, he stated that information available by intelligence and security structures indicated the possible “admission of several radical and extremist groups from the entity of Republika Srpska, Serbia and Russia”.
He has also recalled the reactions of veterans' associations in the Sarajevo canton, which consider this event unacceptable, since celebrating this date has been declared unconstitutional.
Cikotic said he expects “EU FOR to take measures to ensure the legal and constitutional functioning of all institutions, as well as peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, the statement said.
I have warned of their presence because I believe it is best to prevent, and perhaps not to let some civic organizations set order. EUFOR has increased monitoring the situation in that area”, he stressed.
Republika Srpska authorities celebrate January 9th, date when in Sarajevo in 1992 The then Serb People's Assembly adopted the Declaration for the Declaration of the Public Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The goal was to have that part of Bosnia and Herzegovina annexed Yugoslavia, which was then breaking up.
