Tension in Banja Luka: Stanivuković announces he was attacked by police

(Patria) - Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, has just released a video showing him arguing with police in a parking lot.

“The police attacked us and drove us out of our parking lot. They turned on a signal jammer so we couldn't report live. See you in half an hour in front of the President's Palace,” reads Draško Stanivuković's Instagram profile.

❗️Полиција нас је НАПАЛА и ПРОТЈЕРАЛА са нашег, градског, паркинга!
Укључили су ометач сигнала како не бисмо могли извјештавати уживо!
За пола сата се јављамо испред Палате предсједника Републике Српске! pic.twitter.com/twl4BaNEWM

— Драшко Станивуковић (@Stanivukovic_D) December 8, 2024

Let us recall, Banja Luka has been without light and heating since December 6, specifically, the institutions of the RS Government. The Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, has fulfilled what he announced. He turned off the lights for RS institutions.

He began cutting off heating to those institutions that have debts, and also closed the parking lot. Stanivuković was placing concrete bollards, and the RS MUP was removing them, on Dodik's orders. And so the confrontations between Stanivuković and Dodik began.

The trigger for everything - the RS Government's decision to reduce the distribution of VAT revenue to Banja Luka by about six million marks. His decisions drew sharp reactions from some organizations, which were the formal proposers of initiatives for VAT distribution. Who will ultimately turn off whom?