Fight Against Terrorism – Between Ideal and Reality Country Report Bosnia And Herzegovina

In 2007, Mirsad Bektašević, known as Maximus, with three others accomplices, is convicted for planning a bomb attack on an unidentified target in Europe. In his apartment in Sarajevo police found explosives, pistols, ammunition and DVDs with instructions on how to make a bomb. We assumed that the target of the attack was the US Embassy in Sarajevo. But, luckily,

In the same year in March, a group of Rijad Rustempasic was arrested in Sarajevo…

In October 2011, Sarajevo has shaken the terrorist attack of Mevlid Jašarević, shooting…

In the last few years, the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H deals with the persons who…

- for becoming members of organized terrorist groups,…

- for being in Syria and Iraq in war zones, …

- for participation in the war as members of a group of so-called ISIL.…

So far, the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H has been charged 23 people for terrorism-related…

Information about convicted persons (the others are still in trial): …

1. Enes Mešić and others (8 accused - 13 years imprisonment)…

2. Husein Erdić and others (4 accused - 7 years imprisonment)…

3. Bilal Bosnić (7 years imprisonment)…

4. Tutmić Mehmed (4 years imprisonment)…

5. Safet Brkić (3 years imprisonment)…