Viennese daily: Dodik seeks safe haven

(Patria) - Where is Milorad Dodik, asks the Viennese daily Die Presse in today's article.


Article by Die Presse

The most notorious fugitive from justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, due to serious violations of the Constitution, should already be in custody, Die Presse states.

Instead, the article continues, the secessionist leader of the Serbs, against whom the BiH Prosecutor's Office filed a request with Interpol last week for an international arrest warrant, continues his mysterious journey around the world.

According to reports from Bosnian media, the president of the Republika Srpska entity, after an unsuccessful visit to Israel, is allegedly awaiting an audience with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

"I have arrived," was Dodik's brief message on the X platform, after his early departure from an anti-Semitism conference in Jerusalem, organized by the Israeli government.

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Dodik briefly on social media: I have arrived!

(Patria) - This morning at two hours and fifteen minutes, a Cessna aircraft owned by the RS Government landed in Banja Luka. It arrived from the direction of Belgrade, making a short stop on its flight from Israel, where the entity president Milorad Dodik was staying. It did not p

His spokespersons from SNSD explained that Dodik has "private obligations," thus justifying his absence from public appearances after his alleged return home, Patria reports.

However, although his official plane has already landed in Banja Luka, according to unconfirmed reports, Dodik traveled to Moscow after landing in Belgrade on a commercial flight.

Since the BiH Court convicted Dodik in late February in the first instance to one year in prison and a six-year ban from holding public office for violating the Constitution, the secessionist seems to be increasingly losing his bearings.

Instead of waiting for the outcome of the appeal process, he simply declared state judicial institutions illegal within the entity.

If Dodik, who also holds a Serbian passport and a villa in Belgrade, were to decide to go into exile, besides Belgrade and Moscow, a potential destination could also be the Hungarian capital, Budapest.