BiH Minister of Security Dragan Mektic told press on Sunday that BiH authorities need additional powers to tackle the threat of terrorism, according to BalkanInsight.
“We have to create mechanisms which in the case of a greater terrorist threat or some bigger terrorist act, we can declare an emergency situation in a certain area and give an additional mandate to the police,” Mektic said.
His statement came as the authorities continued to investigate the motives for last week’s attack in which a Bosniak killed two off-duty soldiers and injured three other people in a shooting spree – murders which came less than a week after the Islamist violence in Paris.
While leaders in Republika Srpska are often wary of measures that give BiH-level institutions additional power, RS President Milorad Dodik said that cooperation between both entities and between Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats is essential.
Least week’s shooting took place in Sarajevo Canton, inside the Federation.
