CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST MAHMUTOVIĆ FOR INCITING MURDER

EAST SARAJEVO, APRIL 8 /SRNA/ - SNSD MPs in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Sanja Vulić and Milorad Kojić, today filed a criminal complaint with the Republika Srpska Public Prosecutor's Office against the delegate to the Council of Peoples of Republika Srpska Dževad Mahmutović, who publicly encouraged "shooting at the Republika Srpska police".

The complaint was submitted to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Republika Srpska because on Thursday, April 3, Mahmutović, while appearing on a show on the YouTube channel of a Sarajevo portal, in a conversation with the host of the show about the investigation conducted by the unconstitutional Prosecutor's Office of BiH against the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Nenad Stevandić and Prime Minister Radovan Višković, and the refusal of Interpol to issue an international warrant, said that "the police of Republika Srpska should be shot."

Mahmutović, whom the host of the show presented as a representative of the Bosniak Club in the Council of Peoples of Republika Srpska, a legal expert and former adviser to Bakir Izetbegović, a former Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency, is an official in the institutions of Republika Srpska, according to the complaint

In the report, it was stated that in the 40th minute of the video recording of the show, you can clearly hear when the presenter asks Mahmutović if the solution is for the security agencies to "go out and arrest Dodik," to which Mahmutović replied that "they have to arrest him".

When asked by the host what if the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska /MOI/ does not "keep quiet" in that case, Mahmutović replied that they should "shoot at each other and that the task must be completed".

In the conversation, Mahmutović added that "there are people in Sipa who would carry out that task".

In the criminal complaint, it was stated that Mahmutović must have been aware of the fact that in this way he was encouraging police officers of security agencies from BiH and their leaders to take measures and actions that could result in the murder of the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and the members of the MOI of Republika Srpska who are working on his security, and thus endangering the security of Republika Srpska.

As explained in the complaint, Mahmutović is aware that Interpol refused to issue an international warrant for Dodik and Stevandić and that this indicates that there is no legal basis for their prosecution.

The report stated that there is a well-founded suspicion that Mahmutović violated the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska, namely Article 281, in connection with Article 38 of that law, and committed incitement to the murder of representatives of the highest authorities of Republika Srpska.

"Article 281 of the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska states that whoever, with the intention of endangering the constitutional order or the security of Republika Srpska, takes the life of the president or vice president of Republika Srpska, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, the president of the Government of Republika Srpska, the president of the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska, the president of the Supreme Court of Republila Srpska or the Chief Public Prosecutor, will be punished with a prison sentence of at least 10 years or a life sentence," the report states.

The report also explained that Article 38 of the Criminal Code of Srpska stipulates that whoever intentionally incites another to commit a criminal offense will be punished as if he had committed it himself, as well as that whoever intentionally incites another to commit a criminal offense where the attempt is punishable, but the criminal offense is not even attempted, will be punished as for an attempted criminal offense.

"If the attempted incitement was ineligible, the instigator may be exempted from punishment," the report explained.