City Hall is "no man's land", Komšić rents it out and charges admission

The 2015 Sarajevo City budget, among other things, stated that a revenue of 215,000 KM would be generated from "renting out the City Hall premises and charging admission tickets".

Who authorized the City Administration, led by Mayor Ivo Komšić, to rent out state property and charge admission tickets are questions to which even city councilors could not get an answer, writes the BiH news agency Patria.

As a reminder, even before the reopening of the renovated City Hall, there was a fierce debate about whose property it was, and whether the City Administration or the Council, or the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had the right to use it. This issue remains open.

However, this clearly did not prevent Komšić from starting a business of renting out the City Hall, which has become "no man's land", without any legal basis.

Also, it is unclear how tickets can be charged and who set the price. Because someone had to print those tickets, and to print them, a public call/tender had to be announced, to which, according to the law, at least three bidders must respond.

And another unknown, to which no one, starting from the mayor onwards, wants to give an answer, is who concluded the contract with the security company that guards the City Hall and on what basis.

As things are going, the scene from the famous Nadrealisti will come true, when a Sarajevan sold the City Hall to a foreign tourist as his own house.